Release Coordinator

• Fixed Term Salaried Contract until June 2027

• Hybrid work environment

• Based in Bella Vista

• Supporting the Release Manager on the Core Modernisation project.

About the business/role/team

The Core Modernisation project is critical for supporting the RBA’s mission “of promoting the economic welfare the Australian people through our monetary and financial policies and operations”

It enables the IT strategy of standardising, simplifying and automating the bank’s infrastructure

Minimising risk through the introduction of new data centre and modernised infrastructure

About the role
The Release Coordinator is responsible for planning, coordinating, and governing the release of business‑critical applications, including application migrations from legacy data centres to cloud and new data centre platforms, ensuring minimal risk and high‑quality outcomes.
With sound knowledge of ITSM tools (Service Now, JIRA), the Release Coordinator is responsible for overseeing the planning, coordination, and management of software and infrastructure releases across various environments within the project. This role involves close collaboration with Release Manager and project team to development and maintain a release schedule for the program delivering with high quality releases.

Key Responsibilities
Plan and manage the end‑to‑end release lifecycle, including scheduling, coordination, and governance.

• Coordinate releases for business‑critical applications across multiple environments.

• Support data centre exit and cloud migration releases, including cutover and stabilisation activities.

• Collaborate with Change Management, project teams, developers, testers, and vendors to ensure release readiness.

• Identify, manage, and mitigate release risks and dependencies.

• Facilitate release readiness reviews, go/no‑go decisions, and post‑release reviews.

• Ensure accurate release documentation, artefacts, and reporting.

• Monitor release performance and drive continuous improvement of release processes.

• Communicate release status, impacts, and issues to all stakeholders.

Required Experience

• Minimum 4 years of experience in release coordination, with a strong track record of managing complex, large-scale migration programs.

• Strong understanding of release governance, risk management, and change processes.

• Excellent coordination, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Be More
Working for an organisation that truly makes a difference to the people of Australia, we can offer development and career opportunities in a collaborative environment that supports your growth, wellbeing and promotes flexibility. Your individual growth and success drives the RBA forward as an organisation. Be more means you can do more, for yourself and for Australia.
Why RBA?

The RBA makes an important contribution to the Australian economy through the pursuit of national economic policy objectives and associated activities in financial markets and banking. We also issue Australia's banknotes and operate infrastructure critical to the payments system, all of which contribute to the welfare of the Australian people.

Made up of specialists across a wide range of fields, our people, values, and culture play a critical role in achieving our objectives. Striving to be Open & Dynamic, we consider and incorporate different perspectives, work across teams and are transparent with each other, whilst delivering quality together effectively and focusing on outcomes by prioritising, testing, learning, and refining as we go. Our people conduct themselves with a high degree of integrity, while striving for excellence in the work they perform and the outcomes they achieve. We encourage intelligent inquiry, and we treat one another with respect while promoting the public interest through our efforts. We know it is the growth and success of our people that drives the RBA forward.

Come and make a bigger contribution while you build and develop your own skills too, because being more means you can do more, for yourself and for Australia.
The Reserve Bank of Australia is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion through key initiatives. We welcome and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse background, those living with a disability and from the LGBTQ+ community. We are committed to making the recruitment process fair and equitable for all our candidates.

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