TRAINEE: Market Access Release Manager

Release Planning & Governance: Develop, maintain, and oversee the release roadmap and schedule, ensuring alignment with internal and external project timelines, business priorities, and delivery commitments. Cross-Functional Coordination: Facilitate effective collaboration and communication across Business Analysis, Development, Operations, and Infrastructure teams (including Network and Server Engineering) to ensure seamless execution of release activities. Documentation & Reporting: Produce and maintain comprehensive release-related documentation, including functional specifications, solution and architecture diagrams, deployment plans, release notes, and post-implementation reviews. Risk & Issue Management: Proactively identify, assess, and manage risks and issues associated with software releases, while defining and driving appropriate mitigation and contingency plans. Quality & Compliance Assurance: Ensure all releases meet established quality standards, testing requirements, operational readiness criteria, and applicable regulatory or compliance obligations prior to deployment. Process Improvement & Automation: Continuously review, optimize, and automate release management processes, controls, and tooling to improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability of software delivery. Stakeholder Management: Serve as the primary point of contact for release-related communications, providing clear and timely updates to business and technology stakeholders on release status, risks, and milestones. Change & Release Management: Act as the gatekeeper for all production releases, ensuring that change management processes are adhered to and that deployments are executed in a controlled and transparent manner. Market Communications Management: Act as the central point of coordination for exchange and market communications. Ensure market notifications are received, tracked, and distributed through a centralized process, maintain and harmonize exchange contact lists, assign follow-up actions to relevant team members, and promote transparency regarding market changes and initiatives across stakeholders. Infrastructure Partnership & Technical Oversight: Collaborate closely with Infrastructure teams to gain market-related technical intelligence and develop a strong understanding of data center architecture, networking, and server platforms supporting market connectivity solutions. Leadership & Autonomy: Operate with a high degree of autonomy, taking ownership of initiatives and driving outcomes independently. Demonstrate strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to identifying opportunities for improvement and innovation. Innovation & Technology Research: Actively explore emerging technologies, including Artificial Intelligence and modern software delivery practices, assess their potential business value, and promote the adoption of innovative solutions across the organization.