PMO with release experience

Job description

The PMO & Release Manager will perform PMO and Release Management duties in line with the delivery of the Products within the Banking & Treasury Services Change Portfolio. • Program level scheduling including features by release • Annual planning , resource forecasting and maintenance • Initiative level Governance, maintain central RAID log, support stakeholder communications • Project Status Reporting and Governance updates • Support Internal program Audit • Coordinate the collation of Initiative release readiness material • Financial tracking & reporting • Financial planning and administration - monthly/quarterly Clarity portfolio management & reporting, Clarity admin support updates resource forecasting support, Task creation and resource addition through the year supporting implementation leads Release Manager Responsibilities • Aligned to directly coordinate the readiness and execution of monthly releases for the Enterprise Banking Module (EBM) Real-time balances program. • Prepare, maintain, and govern the Monthly Release Calendar, ensuring dependencies are mapped; Proactively identify and resolve release clashes and dependency conflicts. • Respond to release scheduling queries, resolve conflicts and facilitate release related forums and calls • Support preparation of release decks, ensuring correct versions are used, changes are tightly controlled once baselined • Create, maintain and track the Release runbook, facilitate reviews with the relevant stakeholders • Orchestrate execution of the agreed runbook including opening and managing release chats • Lead release communications covering pre-release readiness, Go/No-Go outcomes, post release confirmation and updates • Coordinate release deployment activities across Capability, Technology, SQM and Business stakeholders • Log and track post release issues, clearly recording ownership; Facilitate issue triage meetings to capture root causes and prioritise issues based on impacts • Apply CRM processes consistently across releases, ensuring adherence to governance standards and audit expectations. • Maintain and manage release documentation and folders, ensuring artefacts are organised, version controlled, and audit ready Strong hands on end to end project delivery and system release management, with 5+ years experience is required. Ideally this would be in financial services/banking.