This role is open to candidates with EU/EEA citizenship or existing, unrestricted right to work in the EU — no visa sponsorship is provided. We are particularly keen to hear from candidates holding a Romanian, Polish, Bulgarian, Czech, Portuguese or Spanish passport (or other EU member state passport). This is a fully remote role.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate release schedules across ALS development, testing, infrastructure and business teams.
• Plan and orchestrate SIT, UAT, Pre-Production and Production deployment activities.
• Manage ALS upgrades, patches and vendor (FIS) releases.
• Ensure regulatory and compliance-related changes are delivered on schedule.

• Coordinate change across ALS modules: Loan Origination, Credit Administration, Commercial Lending, Loan Servicing, and interfaces with Core Banking and Treasury systems.
• Collaborate with FIS/vendor support teams, business SMEs, testing teams and infrastructure teams.
• Manage code promotion, environment readiness and cut-over planning.

• Act as the bridge between Product Management, Product Owners, Scrum Teams, business users and leadership.
• Track dependencies, risks and readiness across the release train; represent changes at change-approval forums (CAB).

• Strong mainframe skills — COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2 (and ideally Coolgen / IEF, the technology underpinning ALS).
• Experience coordinating releases across dev, test, infrastructure and business teams.
• Hands-on planning of SIT / UAT / Pre-Prod / Production deployments and cut-over.
• Exposure to FIS ALS or a comparable lending / core-banking platform.
• Change and configuration management (e.g. Endevor / Changeman), scheduling (Control-M / CA7), Connect:Direct.
• Comfortable managing tiered environments (Dev / Test / UAT / Pre-Prod / Production / DR).

• Release Train Engineer experience in a SAFe / Agile environment (PI planning, scrum-of-scrums).
• Lending domain knowledge (loan origination, servicing, commercial lending, credit).
• Experience with vendor release cycles and patch management on a packaged banking product.
• Core Banking and Treasury interface integration experience.

• Long-term engagement on a high-visibility lending transformation.
• Fully remote - nearshore working.
• Competitive day rate (aligned to channel and discussed on application).