Job Description

Company ProfileLSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is a world-leading financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a commitment to excellence in delivering services across Data & Analytics, Capital Markets, and Post Trade.Backed by three hundred years of experience, innovative technologies, and a team of over 23,000 people in 70 countries, our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies, and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.Role ProfileIn this role, you'll be joining our Change and Release Enablement practice within Reliability Engineering & Enablement, Corporate Engineering (CE) as a Senior Manager - Release Lead. Change and Release enablement govern, support and supervise changes and releases to pre-production and production. Work with Corp. Eng. Vendors, capability Tech leads, DevSecOps squads and central change teams to ensure adherence to change process, policies and procedures are adhered. Work with capability tech leads during service transition to ensure smooth hand over into operations. Continuously seek ways to improve and optimise process to ensure changes and releases can get done quickly and safely.Tech Profile/Essential Skills

• Experience in Change and Release Enablement, leading / supporting technology within a dependent and operational environment. Desire to tackle dependent issues/problems for continuous service improvement. Understanding / exposure to relevant technologies, IT controls and governance.
• Lead Agile Release Trains across Corporate Engineering for flawless releases.
• Lead and chair change and release cadences and refine and mature the practices.
• Measure industry outstanding metrics for change and release and continually improve the practices.
• Chair CAB and Fitness for launch release calls for Go/No decision along with Business and Tech. leaders.
• Leadership skills, matrix management, service management, change, ITIL, Agile and DevSecOps practices.
• Enable change and release practice towards Agile and DevSecOps ways of working.
• Proven experience managing teams within dependent matrix environment.
• Skilled and experienced problem-solving. Senior management. Ability to breakdown silos both inside and outside organisation. Be able to shift opinion and use influence over positional power.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• proven experience in Change and Release Enablement governance

Education and Professional Skills

• Professional qualification.
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or STEM degree (Desirable)
• Solid English reading/writing capability required.
• ITIL 4, Agile Related Certifications and trainings are required.
• Curious about new technologies and tools, design thinking and initiative taking.
• Partnership and interpersonal are a must.
• Experience in the Finance industry or knowledge of financial products is a huge plus
• Strong people management capability
• Customer centricity
• Highly focused on outcomes
• Highly organized and planned individual
• Self-starter and self-managed
• Strong relationship management

Detailed Responsibilities

• Ensures change processes well detailed, kept up to date and improved inline with Global change process.
• Ensures team is suggesting Corp engineering Capabilities through effective, timely and safe production changes.
• Focus on balancing efficiency, throughput, compliance and risk control for all changes in defined scope.
• Oversight of change and release schedule.
• Leads improvements to change through advocating good practices, change optimisation, reducing bureaucracy, support high velocity change / agile.
• Ensures right tools, training, support is in place for teams success.
• Leading a small team members with dotted line resources (matrix management), 3rd party partners and contractor alignment.
• Ensuring successful convergence Corp engineering Change Enablement while seeking ways to improve including speed, automation, good practice, small changes etc.
• Lead release cadences in Agile ways of working.
• Resolve dependencies across teams for release planning and implementation.
• Drive continual service improvements for change and release practices.

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyones race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.Please take a moment to read this carefully, as it describes what personal information London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) (we) may hold about you, what its used for, and how its obtained, .If you are submitting as a Recruitment Agency Partner, it is essential and your responsibility to ensure that candidates applying to LSEG are aware of this privacy notice.

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