Manage development through production environments and coordinate technology releases across multiple projects and operational services. Responsibilities include provisioning, patching, access control, deployment calendars, release readiness, test data preparation, risk management, change governance, supplier coordination, documentation, and continuous improvement of automation and DevOps practices. The role ensures environments are secure, representative, available, and ready for testing, training, and production deployment.
The Technology Team provides business-as-usual, cyber security and project support services across the National Church Institutions, using a cloud-first approach and Microsoft technologies to support diverse business areas. The team is supporting a significant finance system transformation and requires dedicated in-house capability to plan, coordinate and improve the environments and releases that underpin successful delivery.
The Environments Manager will act as the key point of coordination between environment management, testing, release management and operational support. Working with project teams, product owners, business analysts, test managers, suppliers and service management colleagues, the role will help ensure development, test, UAT, training, pre-production and production environments are available, secure, representative and ready when needed.
ResponsibilitiesYou will manage the day-to-day operation and coordination of environments and releases, balancing the needs of multiple projects and operational services while reducing delivery risk and improving the quality of change entering production.
Key responsibilities include:
- Managing development, test, UAT, training, staging and production environments, including provisioning, refreshes, upgrades, patching, access controls, configuration and dependency management.
- Planning and coordinating releases across environments, maintaining deployment calendars, supporting release readiness reviews, and ensuring rollback, contingency and recovery arrangements are in place.
- Working closely with test managers and delivery teams to ensure environments and test data are ready for system, integration, UAT, end-to-end, regression, performance, operational readiness and training activities.
- Aligning testing milestones with release plans, identifying environment-related risks or issues, and supporting defect triage where configuration or environment problems affect testing outcomes.
- Maintaining governance, audit trails, standards, documentation and reporting for environments and releases, including compliance with information security and change control requirements.
- Managing relationships with internal teams and external suppliers, communicating clearly about environment availability, planned changes, outages, risks and dependencies.
- Identifying opportunities to improve environment stability, release quality, deployment automation, DevOps practices and overall testing effectiveness.
The role will be especially important in ensuring that testing takes place in controlled and representative environments, helping solutions move smoothly from development through to production and supporting reliable outcomes for the organisation.
Qualifications- Experience managing multiple IT environments, including development, test, UAT, training, staging and production environments. This should be in a Microsoft Azure/D365 environment
- Experience coordinating technology releases, deployments, release readiness activity and change governance.
- A good understanding of how environments, testing, release management and operational readiness work together to support successful delivery.
- Experience supporting software testing and quality assurance activities, including test environment and test data preparation.
- Strong planning, organisation, risk management and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage dependencies and competing priorities.
- Experience working with third-party suppliers and building constructive relationships with project teams, service teams, technical specialists and business stakeholders.
- Experience of large-scale transformation programmes, SaaS or cloud-hosted applications, DevOps tooling, automated deployment pipelines, ITIL, Agile or PRINCE2 delivery approaches
- Clear communication skills, including the ability to explain technical matters to non-technical audiences.
- A commitment to continuous improvement, automation where appropriate, good governance and the values of the NCIs.
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About the NCIs
The National Church Institutions comprises a wide variety of teams, professions and functions that support the mission and ministries of the Church of England in its vision to be a church, centred on Jesus Christ, for the whole nation - a church that is simpler, humbler, bolder.
We Include. You Belong.
Our Belonging and Inclusion Strategy aims for everyone in the National Church Institutions (NCIs) to feel that they belong, and are valued for who they are and what they contribute. Together, our people contribute in different ways towards our common purpose, whichever NCI they work in and whatever their background.
Living out our values in all that we do, we:
- Strive for Excellence
- Show Compassion
- Respect others
- Collaborate
- Act with Integrity
We believe our commitment to belonging and inclusion fuels our progress and drives us forward. The NCIs are a safe, inclusive workplace for people of all backgrounds and walks of life. We welcome applications from people of all faiths and of no faith. We want to encourage applications from a diverse group of people who share our values. Even if you have never thought about working for us before, if you have the skills and experience we’re looking for then we would like to hear from you.
We offer a highly competitive benefits package that supports your health, wellbeing and long-term financial security. This includes annual leave starting at 25 days' plus bank holidays and three additional NCI days, family friendly policies, a wellbeing cashback scheme, an electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme, a defined benefit pension with employer contributions of up to 18%, and generous life assurance cover.
Use of AI in your application
We appreciate that you may want to use AI tools to help you with your application. We're happy for you to use AI to come up with ideas and help structure your thoughts, but you shouldn't use AI to fabricate information or write your whole application for you. One of our values is integrity, and although we want you to demonstrate your best self, we don't want an AI-generated persona. If you simply copy and paste AI-generated content into your application, this will reduce your chances of success.
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