Release Manager

Length of Contract: 1 July 2024 – 30 June 2025 + extension options up to 30 June 2028 

Clearance Required: Baseline

Location: Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne (Box Hill), Penrith

Note* Travel may be required on an ad-hoc basis to attend associated workshops and meetings. All travel must be pre-approved in writing approval before being undertaken. 

About Informatech

Informatech are a Canberra based ICT consultancy, specialising in Testing, Infrastructure, Project Delivery and Security, with over 200 staff currently and growing rapidly. On the back of an excellent year, we came in at number 22 on the Australian Financial Review (AFR) Fastest 100 growing companies List, and the growth is continuing upwards. 

Role Overview: 

TheRelease Manager is accountable for overall delivery of production deployments while supporting Agile Release Train processes and program execution.

Services and Responsibilities

• Working closely with the delivery areas to understand and support the schedule of delivery to meet milestones.
• Maintaining the required deployment governance documentation for the project.
• Accountability for the overall status and delivery of the release
• Ensuring teams comply with relevant design and build standards.
• Coordinating planning for production deployments in collaboration with external change and internal stakeholders.
• Forward planning production deployments and creating and maintaining a deployment schedule that outlines the high-level milestones forecasting what is to be delivered and when
• Communicating and managing expectations around production deployment schedule with relevant stakeholders
• Conducting post release reviews to ensure realisation of benefits and resolution of issues 

Skillsets

• Experience as a Release Manager or equivalent skillset
• Experience managing and overseeing deployment scenarios
• Experience in planning forecasted deployments
• Experience in Agile delivery
• Strong stakeholder engagement and collaboration experience

Experience delivering these services within a Commonwealth Government environment would be welcome.

Benefits and Perks of working for Informatech

• Permanent and Contracting options available
• Professional Development Support – formalised training and education budgets written into your contract + training leave accrued as a formal entitlement (for perm employees)
• Health & Wellbeing Kit - a $500/year allowance for you to spent on physical and/or mental health and wellbeing - gym membership, massages, bikes - whatever you want!
• Bi-Annual Social Events including a big end of year function.
• Security Clearance Maintenance and upgrades
• Supportive Management Team

If you are interested, we encourage you to apply! We will assess each application. 

Mel Wishart - ***********@informatech.com.au

Dehann Browne - *************@informatech.com.au