Workday Change & Release Manager

Workday Change & Release Manager - 6 month contract (Inside IR35)

Our client requires a Workday Change & Release Manager to operate on a remote basis with one day per week in the London office.

Your role and responsibilities will be:

To manage the End to End process of change management which basically consists of Change Approval and subsequent Release and Deployment. Note that this excludes the actual development and testing of changes. It is the responsibility of the Change and Release manager to ensure changes are approved following the protocols required to ensure only changes are requested by recognised business experts and further assessed and approved by experts in Business processes and the supporting technology. Once changes are approved they will be ready to be developed and tested. Once these changes have been tested they will form part of a release to be deployed to the production system, which the Change and Release manager will ensure ALL comply to required quality criteria designed to protect the production system from poor delivered or tested changes.

The Change and Release manager is expected to define schedules for the various forums which form the governance of changes, this also includes ensuring the governance groups meet various other obligations they have around review and approval of key documents which control the change approval and release process.

The Change and Release manager will also be expected to produce a release calendar and to ensure that this calendar is understood and adhered to by all parties including projects/programmes, 3rd parties involved in both support and development and broader IT management.

Responsibilities:

• To ensure that all changes requested applicable to the relevant systems follow the standard approved by the client.
• To facilitate governance meetings ensuring that all required parties are available and that pre-read is delivered in a timely manner and that all contributors have met their obligations
• To chair CAB meetings for standard changes
• To be an authority on the Change and Release process, able to explain and justify when required
• To plan and publish clear meeting schedules in order to maximise attendance and preparedness
• To create a clear Release Schedule, communicate and gain agreement with all parties whom it impacts
• To provide clear guidance when plans are questioned and to escalate when appropriate to correct group or individual

£600-650 per day