Release Manager, Kannon Platform

Position Overview

Job Title: Release Manager, Kannon Platform

Location: London

VP Group Strategic Analytics in Group COO, bridging bank businesses and infrastructure.

What We’ll Offer You

A healthy, engaged, and well‑supported workforce is central to our success.

• Hybrid Working – flexible remote eligibility.
• Competitive salary and non‑contributory pension.
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays; option to purchase additional days.
• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family.
• Flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme, and Gym benefits.
• CSR programme support and 2 days volunteering leave per year.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Oversee and manage the structured Kannon release process from code cut to production deployment, ensuring robust user acceptance and regression testing.
• Ensure timely execution of release activities, including code cuts, patch management, UAT deployments and regression tests, adhering to established timelines.
• Integrate critical fixes (patches) into releases, ensuring unit testing and impact regression identification.
• Coordinate with dependent applications on their release cycles to ensure correct versions and manage impacts or test failures.
• Oversee the regression testing cycle with regression owners, investigate issues, and manage sign‑off processes and approvals.
• Provide clear, timely updates on release status, issues and patches via email alerts and communication channels.
• Act as point of escalation for release‑related issues, facilitating investigation, remediation and resolution.

Your Skills And Experience

• Proven experience in release management within financial services or complex technical environments.
• Understanding of SDLC, version control (Git/Bitbucket) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with testing methodologies, especially regression, batch, integration and performance testing.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail; capable of managing multiple concurrent release streams.
• Knowledge of financial market data, risk and P&L concepts is beneficial.

How We’ll Support You

• Training and development programmes to excel in your career.
• Coaching and support from experts in your team.
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression.
• Equal opportunities employer; reasonable adjustments for disability where required.

About Us

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. We are committed to a positive, fair and inclusive work environment and welcome applications from all people.

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