Release and Deployment Manager

Release & Deployment Manager Location: Skipton (Hybrid) 3 Days a Week Salary: Competitive + Excellent Benefits Are you passionate about helping engineering teams deliver software faster, safer, and with greater confidence? This is a fantastic opportunity to shape and evolve release practices within a large-scale technology environment, enabling teams to improve delivery flow, reduce risk, and accelerate the adoption of modern engineering practices. The Role As a Release & Deployment Manager, you'll sit at the heart of software delivery, working closely with Platform Owners, DevSecOps, Quality Engineering, and Service teams to coordinate releases across multiple platforms and products. You'll play a key role in evolving release capabilities through automation, improved governance, enhanced observability, and modern deployment practices, ensuring teams can move quickly without compromising stability or compliance. What You'll Do Release Strategy & Delivery

• Define and evolve release and deployment strategies across multiple technology platforms
• Drive safe, efficient, and repeatable release processes
• Coordinate releases across multiple engineering teams and business stakeholders
• Ensure dependencies, risks, and environment readiness are identified and managed effectively Modern Engineering & Continuous Improvement
• Support the adoption of modern release practices, automation, and progressive delivery models
• Champion approaches such as canary releases and blue/green deployments
• Identify bottlenecks and opportunities for improvement across the software delivery lifecycle
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and shared ownership of release outcomes Metrics, Performance & Insight
• Use engineering metrics including Lead Time, Deployment Frequency, Change Failure Rate and MTTR to improve delivery performance
• Drive data-led decision making across release and deployment activities
• Improve release predictability, reliability, and engineering effectiveness Leadership & Stakeholder Management
• Lead and develop a small team focused on release excellence
• Work closely with engineering, platform, operations, and business teams
• Influence stakeholders across technology functions to improve delivery outcomes
• Build strong relationships across the organisation to ensure successful delivery of change What We're Looking For
• Proven experience leading Release, Deployment, or Service Transition activities within complex technology environments
• Strong understanding of modern software delivery practices including CI/CD, DevOps, and release automation
• Experience coordinating releases across multiple teams and managing dependencies at scale
• Ability to leverage metrics and data to improve delivery performance and reduce risk
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Experience working within regulated or enterprise-scale environments would be advantageous What's In It For You?
• Impact: Lead the evolution of release and deployment capability across a major technology organisation
• Flexibility: Hybrid and flexible working arrangements
• Modern Engineering Culture: Work alongside Platform, DevSecOps, Engineering and Quality practices
• Career Growth: Ongoing investment in training and professional development Benefits Package
• Annual discretionary bonus
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays, increasing with service to 30 days
• Holiday trading scheme
• Up to 10% matched pension contribution
• Private medical insurance
• Electric and hybrid car salary sacrifice scheme
• Colleague mortgage benefits
• 3 paid volunteering days per year
• Gym discounts and wellbeing support
• Inclusive employee networks and communities Apply today or reach out directly to Charlie Smith at charlies@wrkdigital.co.uk for a confidential chat.