AVP, IT Change and Release, WRB Tech

Job ID: 39875

Location: Chennai, IN

Area of interest: Technology

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 16 Sept 2025

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Release Planning and Coordination. A DevOps release manager starts by creating a comprehensive release plan, outlining the scope, timeline, and dependencies.
• Developing and maintaining the release management process, including the coordination of all aspects of the release lifecycle.

Business

• Effective communication is paramount for a successful release management process.
• Supporting training and communication as part of change management. Activities may include designing or delivering specialized training resources to appropriate resources.

Processes

• Own the entire change and release lifecycle, collaborating with development, QA, and infrastructure teams to guarantee proper testing, documentation, and scheduling.

People & Talent

• Lead and co-ordinate the Go-Live activities including the execution of the deployment Plans and checklists.
• Release management allows for distinctive but connected aspects of a project like design, development, testing, deployment, maintenance, and more.
• Coordinate planning and preparation for Deployment.

Risk Management

• Proficient in. Methods and techniques for the assessment and management of business risk including safety-related risk.
• A DevOps release manager should be well-versed in risk management and compliance practices.

Governance

• Acts as process owner for the change management process. Leads the assessment and analysis of change based on requests for change.
• Regular communication and updates ensure everyone stays informed and accountable throughout the Salesforce release process.

Key stakeholders

• Management Teams, Product Owners, Engineering Leads, Domain tech leads, Security Champions, Assurance Governors.

Skills and Experience

• Azure DevOps (ADO) Pipeline
• ADO Boards
• Any Scripting language skills / SQLs
• Release Train Engineer
• Any UI Developing Skills

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.