Senior Release Delivery Manager - CBP Program Delivery

Job ID: 18855 
 

Senior Release Delivery Manager – CBP Program Delivery

 

Nordea’s Core Banking Program (CBP) is the largest Program in Nordea’s portfolio. It is a complex transformation to consolidate our technology systems via a common Nordic platform, enable a more modern platform and faster time to market for our Nordic digital offerings to customers. We are expanding the product offering and migrating customer accounts from legacy onto the new platform (N-core), starting with Finland and Denmark savings and transaction accounts followed by Sweden and Norway.  The Program Delivery team within CBP is responsible for release management and external dependency management with domains outside of CBP.  We are looking for a Senior Release Delivery Manager for Migration to be part of the Program Delivery team.

 

What you will be doing:

• As a Release Manager, you are responsible for the release delivery lifecycle. You continually ensure that the release is executed as defined by release process, policies and requirements
• Responsible for planning, implementing and managing release processes across N-core releases, offers, account migrations and minor releases
• Manage relationships and coordinate work between different teams in different locations
• Conduct Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews together with Implementation Team
• Support release deployment plans and activities in collaboration with Implementation Team
• Responsible for Release Reporting
• Facilitation of Daily Program Release meeting
• Facilitate review sessions for Hotfixes / Minor Releases
• Communicate release details and schedules to the business, external domains and other stakeholders
• Continually work towards making improvements in the release process
• Conduct Release Retrospectives and identify improvements
• Coordinate with Risk Manager to conduct QRA Risk session for each release

 

To succeed in this role, we believe that you:

Demonstrate Nordea's leadership competences including:

• Self organizing and self-driven
• Proactive
• Strong facilitation skills and decision making
• Conflict resolution
• Strong problem solving skills
• Skillful communicator
• Professional coaching and mentoring skills
• Ability to manage and escalate risks, dependencies and issues
• Foster collaboration between teams and other stakeholders
• Have the ability to drive a large international and distributed team
• Are proficient in the planning of long term work (>1 year out) across multiple, distinct areas
• Able to work with architects, product managers, product owners, developers, testers, business stakeholders as well as leadership executives
• Communicate and influence at all levels of the organization and communicate complex topics and recommendations in a clear and understandable way for a wide variety of stakeholders (English)
• Build effective relationships with other team members and stakeholders across the organization
• Adapt and respond to change and work effectively to resolve ambiguity

 

Experience:

• 10+ years of related work experience in large-scale transformation programs in the areas of Core Banking or Financial Services industry
• 10+ years of experience in delivery leadership roles
• Preferably, 5+ years of experience in Release Management or Data Migration role
• Preferably, 5+ years experience with Core Banking software such as Temenos or SAP

 

 

If this sounds like you, get in touch! 
 

Next steps

Submit your application no later than 07/01/2024. 

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