An'yst, Sftwre Deliv&Release

Job ID: 43366

Location: Chennai, IN

Area of interest: Technology

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 3 Nov 2025

Job Summary

• We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Release Engineering Specialist to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for managing the release process of our bank software products, ensuring smooth and successful deployments. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and employ industry best practices to optimize our release management processes.

Strategy

• The release engineering process begins with planning. This involves defining release goals, determining the scope of the release, identifying the features and enhancements to be included, and establishing a timeline for the release.

• Release Management: Coordinate and oversee the end-to-end release process, including version control, build management, packaging, and deployment of software releases.

Business

• Having knowledge on below release engineer's activity and enhancing the bank's release engineering process.
• Build Automation: Develop and maintain build automation scripts and tools to streamline the compilation, build, and packaging processes.
• Continuous Integration and Deployment: Implement and maintain continuous integration and deployment pipelines, enabling automated testing, integration, and deployment of software releases.
• Configuration Management: Manage and maintain configuration settings for development, test, and production environments, ensuring consistency across various environments.
• Version Control: Administer version control systems, manage code branches, and ensure proper merging of changes across the codebase.
• Release Documentation: Prepare and maintain comprehensive release documentation, including release notes, installation guides, and troubleshooting guides.
• Release Coordination: Coordinate release activities with stakeholders, including developers, testers, project managers, and operations teams, to ensure effective planning and execution of software releases.

Processes

• The release engineering process is a series of steps and activities aimed at managing and facilitating the deployment of software releases. It involves coordinating the various tasks and stakeholders involved in the release process to ensure smooth and successful deployments.

• Process Improvement: Continuously evaluate and enhance release engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to optimize efficiency and quality

People & Talent

• It involves coordinating the various tasks and stakeholders involved in the release process to ensure smooth and successful deployments.

• Develop an efficient deployment process by Identify and propagate best industry practices and processes.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group's Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.]
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• Serve as a Director of the Board
• Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association (or equivalent)

Key stakeholders

• Work closely with the development team and stakeholders to identify automation and optimization opportunities.
• Communicate process improvements and changes to stakeholders through effective presentations and documentation.

Skills and Experience

• Release Management best practices
• Includes development, configuration
• management, test integration and sysadmin
• Reporting & Dashboarding

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or related field.
• Proven experience in release engineering or a similar role, managing software release processes in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong understanding of software development methodologies, including Agile and DevOps practices.
• Hands-on experience on Azure DevOps is preferrable.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to deep dive and identify release process improvement opportunities.
• Strong troubleshooting abilities to identify and resolve issues during the release process.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to prioritize tasks, manage multiple releases concurrently, and meet deadlines in a dynamic environment.
• Knowledge of continuous integration and deployment practices and tools, such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Jenkins Pipelines
• Proficiency in version control systems, such as Git or SVN, and experience with branching and merging strategies.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.