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# Change & Release Analyst

- **Company:** Hargreaves Lansdown
- **Location:** Bradley Stoke, UK (Remote available)
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Continuous Integration, Live Connect (Windows), Release Management
- **Published:** July 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.apply4u.co.uk/jobs/x/41558568/

## About the Role

enabling automated compliance while maintaining auditability. Provide guidance to engineering and platform teams on change standards, release approaches, and risk mitigation. Support resolution of failed changes and release-related incidents, driving learning and continuous improvement. Ensure accurate records and evidence are maintained across ITSM and delivery tooling to support audit and reporting needs. Contribute to improving change success rates, release quality, and reduction of service disruption.About you Experience in IT Service Management, with strong knowledge of Change and Release Management (ITIL aligned). Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, deployment tooling, and automated release practices. Experience working across hybrid environments (heritage, cloud, and third-party platforms). Ability to interpret and apply automated controls and delivery evidence within governance frameworks. Strong coordination and stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical teams.

## Description

Job DescriptionThe Change & Release Analyst coordinates risk-based change and release activity across HL's enterprise technology estate, ensuring production stability is protected while enabling safe, predictable delivery. Operating within Service Assurance, the role balances traditional ITIL-aligned governance with modern, pipeline-driven delivery, ensuring that as CI/CD automates change and embeds controls, releases into live services remain traceable, compliant, and operationally safe.What you will be doing Coordinate end-to-end change and release activity, ensuring appropriate risk assessment, approvals, scheduling, and implementation controls. Maintain a forward schedule of change and release activity, providing visibility of impacts, dependencies, and risk across services. Act as a control point for releases into production, ensuring operational readiness, support alignment, and successful post-release validation. Embed governance into CI/CD pipelines and delivery practices


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