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About The Role
FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Release Manager to work for our client within the public sector. This is initially a 6-month contract with the potential to extend and will be a fully remote role.
The Release Manager will be responsible for overseeing the entire release management process, which includes planning, coordinating, and managing releases across the organisation for various applications. This role involves coordinating different teams, tracking progress, managing risks, and resolving conflicts to ensure successful product releases. The goal is to ensure that software and applications are delivered on time and with high quality.
Responsibilities
- Implement release management processes across all digital programs
- Maintain and establish standards for release management in digital services
- Design, document, automate, and maintain configuration management processes (including build, release, version control, branching, and merging)
- Enhance delivery capabilities and improve release management processes to create a reliable, standardised, high-quality release management function
- Collaborate with developers, test automation and application configuration specialists, release management, business leads, and cloud engineers
- Work with teams to resolve any bottlenecks or conflicts that could delay releases
- Ensure all deliverables meet defined quality standards, documentation is complete, and teams are prepared for the release
- Manage project-specific software configuration and commonality between program configurations to limit software variants
- Prepare technical documentation and diagrams to define the configuration and topology of deployed applications
- Analyse and manage dependencies across teams, systems, and third-party integrations to ensure smooth releases
- Act as a liaison between development, testing, operations, and business teams to ensure alignment on release objectives
- Engage with stakeholders to prioritise releases and provide regular updates on release progress, risks, and readiness
About You
Requirements
- Knowledge and experience with Continuous Integration and Deployment tools (e.g., Azure DevOps)
- Experience in configuration analysis of complex enterprise systems
- Understanding of tools and practices for determining and managing resources
- Strong understanding of SDLC design and architecture, source control
- Good understanding of CI/CD principles and knowledge of setup
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office
- Knowledge of key business processes and organisational priorities
- Experience with Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines
- Experience documenting configuration of CRM solutions (e.g., Microsoft Dynamics)
- Familiarity with QlikView and PowerBI
About Us
Why join us?
- Career coaching and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career
- Initial upskilling pre-assignment that has been accredited by TechSkills
- Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad
- Opportunity to obtain certifications from Microsoft, Salesforce, Cisco and more
- Access to the Buy As You Earn share scheme
About FDM
We are a business and technology consultancy and one of the UK's leading employers, recruiting the brightest talent to become the innovators of tomorrow. We have centres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 4,000 Consultants. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer and is listed on the FTSE4Good Index.
Diversity and Inclusion
FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.
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