Payments Deployment Manager (Dublin Ireland/Remote)

Job 1:

Experience in managing Deployment Planning for a Portfolio of projects;

Maintaining and publishing project Release Plans, Payments Change Release Calendar

Assist the Programme/Project Managers and the development team members in planning each release

Attending IT Change Management governance eg Forward Schedule of Change, Change Approval Board (CAB)

Raise, update and manage change tickets through to closure

Identifying, resolving and escalation of coexistence issues with other project/BAU changes

Co-ordinating and managing Risk Assessments for upcoming deployments

Deployment Execution

Creation and ownership of Deployment Runbooks - detailed steps for execution of deployments along with a back-out plan should anything go wrong during deployment

Working with project team and business SMEs

Experience engaging with Kyndryl and other 3rd parties at a detailed technical level

Please See NOTES for Further description.Engagement with all stakeholders to ensure that resources are available for deployment activities

Ensure that all the release and change collateral (change requests, release notes, Test Closure Reports etc.) are completed in required timelines

Management of the deployment slot, communications and monitoring

Strong stakeholder Management:

Other Change Areas

Service Transition Governance

Technology Services Service Delivery Management and Support Teams

Business Operations and Service Management

Payments Change and Business Management teams

Risk Teams (Change and Business)

Technical skills/Knowledge

Strong experience planning the development and delivery of complex software products

Good understanding of technology architecture and infrastructure components

Strong system integration experience (MQ, WMB, ConnectDirect)

Knowledge of payments processing desirable, payments engines, including SEPA and FIN message processing.

Job 2:

Practical experience using BDM throughout the full project life cycle on multiple projects

Day to day project management eg Develop, implement and maintain project plan; implement the QC/SG processes for the project, maintain Clarity data

Experience engaging with Security and Change/Release Management teams

Practical experience with Service Transition Governance

Knowledge of payments processing desirable

Ability to understand, challenge and communicate technical concepts required (ie a high technical acumen)

Experience engaging with IBM and other 3rd parties at a detailed technical level