Assistant Release Engineer

End Date
Thursday 25 April 2024
Salary Range
£42,120 - £46,800
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Flexible Working Options
Hybrid Working
Job Description Summary
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: Assistant Release Engineer
SALARY: £42,120 - £46,800
LOCATION(S): Edinburgh
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our Edinburgh location.
About this opportunity
Our Insurance, Protection & Investment (IP&I) platforms are focused on improving support to our customers throughout their financial lives, with clear, straightforward customer journeys, helping empower them to make the right decisions on their long-term Saving, Investment & Retirement needs.
The Retirement Platform is responsible for shaping and delivering the retirement strategy and product vision to help our customers make the most of their financial future. This is an exciting time to join the Retirement Platform with a multi-million-pound investment in digitising our Individual Annuities customer journey onto a Cloud based platform.
As an Assistant Release Engineer, you will report to the Engineering Lead who manages the release plans across the platform. You’ll be responsible for the planning, coordination, and facilitation of software packages/products for our digital applications. Role modelling robust risk management and effective & collaborative stakeholder working relationships, you will provide engineers knowledge on the best practices of change governance and safe deployments into production.
The role provides an opportunity for the individual to work closely with our Product Owners, Engineering, Infrastructure and Enterprise/Solution Architecture experts to evangelise the importance of planned and co-ordinated release delivery, ensuring changes are delivered in a safe and controlled manner, adhering to technical/security governance across the technology platforms.
What we need from you:

• You’ll be proficient in contributing to release plans, understanding parallel releases, spanning multiple teams, identifying key milestones to measure delivery progress.
  
• Agile delivery experience in a Business/Technology/Engineering function.
  
• Confident in attending governance forums.
  
• Experience in building route to live plans for Digital Channels.
  
• You’ll have a technical mindset and have skills spanning digital domains.
  
• Proficient communicator with the ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to your peers.
  
• You’ll have some risk management experience, through active management of risks, issues, and dependencies.
  
• An awareness of technical governance deliverables to manage and complete the application service introduction for each release, ensuring all the technical and security deliverables are defined and approved.
  
• You will be a highly motivated team player with a desire to pioneer best practise and improves ways of ways of working with team collaboration.
  

Why Lloyds Banking Group
Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data, and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too.
About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity, or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
  
• An annual performance-related bonus
  
• Share schemes including free shares.
  
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
  
• Generous holiday allowance, with bank holidays on top
  
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
  

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.