Technical Release Manager
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Napier is a new breed of financial crime compliance technology specialist. Our AI enhanced platform – Napier Continuum – transforms compliance from legal obligation to competitive edge.
At Napier, our mission is to fight financial crime through automation & AI. We believe that by automating the detection and prevention of financial crime, we can make the world a safer place for everyone.
Collaboration, innovation and wonderful people are just some of the reasons to bring your career to Napier. Our culture is shaped by our core values that promote equality, creativity, and opportunity in everything we do.
After successfully securing a £45million investment to fuel our ongoing growth and to further invest in our AI products, we are hiring for a Technical Release Manager.
The Technical Release Manager works with our core product Engineering teams and a range of other stakeholders to deliver the release roadmap for the Napier platform. Here at Napier, there are multiple work streams and engineering teams, and the Technical Release Manager is responsible for coordinating their output to ensure timely software releases to our customers. The role also involves building connections across the business to understand the context and relative priorities of requirements while ensuring that the resulting plan is communicated consistently across the business.
There is a significant technical element to the role, as the Technical Release Manager will be a key part of implementing, measuring, and improving Napier’s patching, versioning, and branching strategies to ensure effective, timely delivery of customer and product needs.
Your day to day - Technical Release Manager
- Working openly and collaboratively with business and technology stakeholders to combine customer demands, strategic product priorities and technical changes into achievable release plans
- Coordinating across multiple concurrent delivery teams and actively scheduling their output into coherent packages that deliver genuine business and technical value
- Clearly and regularly communicating plan progress (and highlighting associated risks and dependencies) to a wide range of stakeholders from across Napier
- Improving technical release practices towards a continuously releasable end-state, especially in terms of GitHub, CI/CD, and development processes
- Improving the flow of value by assessing and adjusting the practices associated with Lean-Agile, DevOps and a trunk-based Continuous Delivery model
- Facilitating release demos and managing the production of associated collateral such as release notes and configuration guides to a high standard
- Forward-planning access to environments across a competing set of priorities
- Providing input on resourcing decisions to address critical bottlenecks or delivery risks
- Developing ways to measure and improve release cadence, quality, and stability
- Fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement through regular inspect and adapt workshops, a focus on business-driven metrics, and the creation of a positive, collaborative, and empowering environment
Do you have what it takes?
- At least 5 years of experience in a Release Manager, Release Train Engineer, or similar role – but we are open-minded in what industry or sector (does not have to be compliance & AML)
- Experience in orchestrating activity across multiple disciplines and teams to successfully plan and deliver multiple patches and upgrades to a diverse set of customers
- A hands-on technical background will be important to understand the complexities and inter-dependencies of the Napier platform, and therefore the trade-offs involved in making release roadmap decisions
- Experience of managing software releases to both cloud (multiple vendors) and on-premises customers in a product/SaaS environment, and a deep understanding of the key considerations in terms of deployment, upgrades, support, and migration
- Experience in Agile delivery environments - a track record of constantly looking for ways to do things better and an excellent understanding of the mechanisms necessary to successfully implement change
- Knowledge of DevOps and infrastructure engineering principles and practices
- Understanding of support contracts and commercial obligations, and their relationship to release planning and delivery
Why Napier?
Our people are our most valuable asset, as such, we offer the below benefits to all Naperians
- Group life assurance policy
- Income protections policy
- Access to our employee wellbeing programme
- An extra day off to celebrate your birthday
- Enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave
- A budget to help you set up your home office if needed
- Support for technical training and certification
- An open and flexible culture that allows you to work in the best way for you
- Private health and dental insurance
- Department
- Technology
- Role
- Engineering
- Locations
- Belfast
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
Belfast
Perks of the job are part of the job
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Healthcare 🩹
Offered in multiple locations around the world covering optical, audio and dental
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Extra days off! 🏖
We gift every employee their Birthday off and a Wellness day.
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Socials 🍕 *
Bonding and connections are important to us so we like to spend at least one Thursday a month socialising over a pizza.
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Gym memberships 💪 *
Discounts on various gyms located all around the U.K.
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*These are the benefits specific to UK employees.
Workplace and culture
Napier promotes a hybrid and flexible way of working. We encourage our employees to go to the gym during their lunch breaks, go on walks, and fulfil their passions both at and outside of work. We want you to be excited to come to work each day!
About Napier AI
Napier is the world’s first end-to-end intelligent compliance platform. We want to change organisations’ attitudes to compliance, making it a proactive strength that gives businesses a competitive edge.
We know we can make a real difference, by focusing on efficiency and outcomes. That’s why we have built an evolving suite of intelligent compliance products that aims to capture and share best practice across all sectors.
By offering the most effective solutions for businesses, we can transform compliance.
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