Environment & Release Manager

at  UK Shared Business Services Ltd UKSBS

BAND E: £40,175 - £50,677 DOE

UKSBS is a public sector shared service centre providing high quality HR, Payroll, Finance, Procurement and IT services and expertise to our partners. We are proud of the part we play in enabling our partners to achieve the best outcomes for the British people and the UK economy.
In line with the Government’s Shared Services Strategy, the Matrix Programme is intending to deliver modern, cost-effective and scalable shared business services to nine departments (the Policy Cluster), with UKSBS as the provider, flexibly meeting changing Government requirements, and driving innovation to optimise efficiencies and enhance user experience. The Programme will also implement a new modern SaaS ERP platform, from which UKSBS can deliver these services, driving harmonisation and significant business change across the Departments. This is a large, complex multi-year programme.
We innovate in on-premises, Cloud and SaaS systems, on upgrades to legacy tech stacks, and in providing subject matter expertise into new Departmental Programmes collaborating with technical and project teams, we ensure that upgrades and changes are released into our production environments are done so in a secure and assured way.
The role of the Environment and Release Manager will be to lead the Environment and Release elements of Changes and Major Programmes for UKSBS Systems, this is with a focus on Oracle Fusion and Workday.

Duties will include, but are not limited to:

• Developing, promoting and managing the Environment Management policy and processes
• Ensuring that the Environments Schedule Calendar is managed, published, and maintained according to the needs of Projects and Change Requests
• Chairing weekly Environments meeting and act as a decision point ensuring that the correct technical and scheduling decisions are made across all environments
• Developing, promoting and managing the Release Management policy and processes
• Ensuring that all Release items have been approved by CAB or a delegated Product Owner
• Liaising with Deployment Teams to coordinate Release deployments

To do this role well you will need:

• Strong Leadership and Communication skills, with a focus on IT, Oracle Fusion and/or Workday products and services
• Environment and/or Release Management experience
• Experience of task managing individuals
• Strong analytical skills

To find out more about the skills, knowledge and behaviours we’re looking for, read the detailed job description.
We are UKSBS. We are creating a place where people love to work, a culture where we lead, we change, we deliver and we empower our people to be curious, take action and add value.
Our people are the heart of our success. We are always looking for talented individuals to join our team and play a part in that success that’s why we invest and grow our workforce. In return for your talent and contributions, we offer flexible and family friendly working arrangements, a generous benefits package, an inclusive working environment that values your contribution, and opportunities to develop your skills and career with us.
It’s an exciting time to join UKSBS as we transform our business to be the leading UK public sector business service provider. We aim to become a very different organisation over the next few years as we move to a modern multi-platform, digitally enabled organisation
We look forward to hearing from you.
Submitting an application
If you wish to apply for this vacancy, please submit your application by midnight on Monday 25th November.
You must submit a CV and covering letter as part of the application process. Your CV should set out your career history including training and qualifications, with key responsibilities and achievements. Please ensure that each entry of your career history also has a few sentences outlining a description and the key elements of that role.
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high volume of quality applications.

THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

To be considered, you will need to successfully obtain BPSS before commencing the role, obtaining clearance usually takes 5-10 working days.
UKSBS does not hold a Home Office Sponsor Licence under the UK Immigration System, therefore applicants must have eligibility to live and work in the UK at application stage.

Duties will include, but are not limited to:

• Developing, promoting and managing the Environment Management policy and processes
• Ensuring that the Environments Schedule Calendar is managed, published, and maintained according to the needs of Projects and Change Requests
• Chairing weekly Environments meeting and act as a decision point ensuring that the correct technical and scheduling decisions are made across all environments
• Developing, promoting and managing the Release Management policy and processes
• Ensuring that all Release items have been approved by CAB or a delegated Product Owner
• Liaising with Deployment Teams to coordinate Release deployment

To do this role well you will need:

• Strong Leadership and Communication skills, with a focus on IT, Oracle Fusion and/or Workday products and services
• Environment and/or Release Management experience
• Experience of task managing individuals
• Strong analytical skill