Change and Release Manager

Role type: Permanent
Location: Bristol Area
Working Pattern: Up to 5 days per week on site
Salary: £55-70k, depending on experience, plus Company Bonus and Benefits

Parico is a growing technology business with a history of delivering innovative and secure solutions to Public Sector customers across the United Kingdom. Our team are motivated individuals that help each other to do remarkable things every day. We face challenges together and we win together. At Parico, we deliver world-class solutions that transform the way that our clients use technology.

Role Summary:

Parico is seeking a talented Change & Release Manager who is smart, curious and prospers against the challenge of working closely with a small business to solve complex and challenging problems across the Public Sector landscape. You’ll have the freedoms to be truly innovative to roll up your sleeves, get stuck into the detail of systems, and generally do what it takes to achieve incredible technical solutions to our customer’s complex problems.

The selected candidate will play a pivotal role in providing an effective and efficient change management process that ensure change is released, managed and accounted for professionally.

Responsibilities:

• Building, maintenance and management of integrated Release Schedules and Release Notes through close collaboration with the delivery teams
• Implementation planning and deployment management to align with platform change windows
• Managing release related risks, issues and cross platform deployment dependencies
• Managing Release key stakeholders at all levels throughout the Release and deployment process
• Delivering major releases alongside small change, urgent change, service improvements and maintenance
• Release governance, content, configuration and change management into our integrated End-to-end landscape, Pre-Production and Production
• Contribution to Project planning activities – agile and waterfall
• Release process continuous improvement

Our Ideal Candidate:

• Release Management experience in a highly complex systems environment within an agile delivery construct
• Evidence of influential stakeholder management across all a variety of stakeholders levels
• Experience of using Jira, Remedy and Microsoft or similar collaboration tools to deliver releases
• Understanding of the software development lifecycle (Agile/Waterfall)
• Experience of Change governance frameworks
• An understanding of software configuration management principles
• Leadership and analytical skills
• Experience of collaborating and influencing cross-functional teams in the successful delivery of software development projects
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to manage, influence, negotiate and collaborate with a variety of stakeholders at all levels in the business.
• Ability to self-organise and co-ordinate areas of work for yourself and others
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Great resilience with the ability to maintain energy and enthusiasm and embrace situations positively
• Have demonstrable sector knowledge or experience within UK Defence (Army, Air force or Royal Navy).

• Ability to hold a minimum of UK Security Clearance (SC).
• Hold a UK Driving Licence and have a willingness to travel to client sites.

• Basic familiarity with DevOps principles and tooling, e.g. Jenkins

Essential Criteria:

• We are only able to progress with sole UK British nationals for this role.
• Candidates must either have or be eligible to obtain UK SC security clearance.

What’s in it for you?

• A high-performance company culture that will help you to progress quickly and thrive.
• Kitted out with a full suite of tech goodies and any additional tech you may need with our work-from-home subsidy upon joining, so you can kit out your home office.
• Get the fuel you need to power through the workday with free snacks, drinks and a weekly catered lunch in the office.
• 25 days of paid holiday (plus 8 bank holidays).
• 10 days at full pay for Armed Forces Reservist training.
• Private health insurance provided through AXA PPP and mental health support through our Employee Assistance Program.
• Salary Sacrifice Electric Vehicle car scheme with Octopus Energy
• Discretionary company bonus
• Flexible Life Insurance, with a minimum of 2 x salary and rewards, provided by YuLife.
• Flexible working hours to support life admin as well as being able to work from home.
• Enhanced Private pension contributions, matched up to 5%
• We’re family friendly, with Parico company policies built to support you, in all stages of life.

If you are interested in this exciting opportunity and meet the requirements, please submit your application today. At Parico, we believe a diverse workforce is a successful workforce. We actively work to empower balanced teams which represent ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, the LGBTQIA+ community, and all genders.

We encourage candidates to share any reasonable adjustment requests with us ahead of an interview and strive to provide a tailored and fair process for everyone.