Application Delivery & Release Specialist (Internal Only)

About the role

In this role, you will lead Agile delivery and release activities, ensuring technology changes are delivered efficiently, aligned to business priorities and deployed with minimal disruption. Working closely with stakeholders across TE&S, you will drive continuous improvement in delivery practices, governance, team collaboration and release outcomes.

You will also play a key role in strengthening delivery maturity through Agile practices, disciplined release management and the successful delivery of high-quality solutions.

Key responsibilities include

Facilitate and coordinate agile processes, including maintaining delivery and release timelines and core ceremonies (stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives). Work with product owners, domain leads, and service owners to prioritise backlogs and align improvement work to releasable outcomes. Coordinate end-to-end release activities from planning through to deployment and post-release review, including go/no-go decisions based on readiness criteria.

Review and assure change requests for technical completeness, design quality, integration risk, and dependency management across on-premises and cloud/SaaS environments. Monitor and report on delivery and release performance, including progress, change success rates, lead times, and throughput trends, ensuring alignment to Agile and governance standards.

Coordinate delivery schedules, release cycles, and deployment activities across systems, teams, and vendors, managing dependencies and conflicts. Manage end to end release and change processes, ensuring all changes are complete, risk-assessed (including security), and include rollback planning before approval. Implement, and embed tools, systems and processes that enable agile ways of working, ensuring automation and productivity as a goal, which flexibly responds to business priorities whilst ensuring compliance.

Championing agile delivery and release practices, aligning end-to-end systems, processes and capability to support fast consistent, scalable technology delivery About you To be successful in this role, you will have tertiary qualifications in Information Technology, Business or related discipline alongside experience in application release or change coordination roles.

Essential Experience: Demonstrated experience coordinating application changes, upgrades, or releases in a structured IT environment, with exposure to Agile or hybrid delivery models. Experience working with change management processes, including CABs, formal approval workflows, and release governance practices. Proven experience collaborating with cross-functional teams (e.

g. Product Owners, technical teams, vendors) to deliver coordinated outcomes aligned to business value. Experience working in operational IT environments with competing priorities, dependencies, and BAU constraints. Solid understanding of release and change management principles, controls, and governance in both traditional and Agile environments.

Understanding of Agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum, Kanban) and how to apply them within enterprise IT environments to deliver incremental value. Confidence working within governance frameworks while enabling efficient, outcome-focused delivery. If this sounds like the role for you, then click apply now! A career with us We’d love for you to continue your career with the City and set the benchmark for a sustainable, inclusive and culturally safe workplace.

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