Development Manager

About the role

Kaplan International Pathways is looking for a strategic and technical Development Manager to own the software delivery "production line" across multiple distributed teams. You will coordinate release cadence, professionalise release capability, and safeguard platform integrity while driving engineering velocity.

Key responsibilities

• Enforce Operational Readiness Review (ORR) and act as the final "No Go" authority for releases.
• Coordinate release schedules, manage the Release Train, and resolve inter‑team dependencies.
• Partner with QA to apply a Release‑Confidence Score as a hard gate in pipelines.
• Define and evolve CI/CD pipeline standards and implement Policy‑as‑Code quality gates.
• Work with Solution Architects to create low‑friction "Green Lane" patterns for low‑risk changes.
• Lead incident response as primary Incident Commander and drive Root Cause Analysis to prevent recurrence.

Required profile

• Strategic mindset with a focus on eliminating friction in software delivery.
• Technical expertise in release management, CI/CD pipelines, and incident command.
• Ability to collaborate with QA, Solution Architects, partners, and delivery teams.

Required skills

• CI/CD pipeline design and governance
• Policy‑as‑Code implementation
• Release Management and Operational Readiness Review
• Incident Management and Root Cause Analysis
• Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and telemetry monitoring
• Run‑book maintenance
• DORA metrics tracking

What we offer

• Opportunity to shape the delivery process for a global education provider.
• Collaboration with cross‑functional teams across multiple time zones.
• Access to cutting‑edge automation and AI tools to streamline development.