ASX: Powering Australia's financial markets

Why join the ASX?

When you join ASX, you’re joining a company with a strong purpose – to power a stronger economic future by enabling a fair and dynamic marketplace for all.

In your new role, you’ll be part of a leading global securities exchange with a strong brand. We are known for being a trusted market operator and an exciting data hub. 

Want to know why we are a great place to work, click on the link to learn more.

www.asx.com.au/about/careers/a-great-place-to-work

We are more than a securities exchange!

The ASX team brings together talented people from a diverse range of disciplines. 

We run critical market infrastructure, with 1 in 3 people employed within technology.  Yet we have a unique complexity of roles across a range of disciplines such as operations, program delivery, financial products, investor engagement, risk and compliance.

We’re proud to foster a workplace where diversity is celebrated and inclusion is part of our everyday culture. Our employee-led networks champion LGBTIQ+ inclusion, promote gender equality, accessibility and wellbeing, inspire giving and volunteering, and celebrate cultural and religious events, creating a sense of belonging for all. As an AWEI Bronze employer and member of the Champions of Change Coalition for gender equality, we’re committed to a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.

Your responsibilities:

Environment Management

• Own the end-to-end environment strategy for the ASX 24 project.
• Coordinate provisioning, availability, maintenance, and support of test, integration, UAT, CDE, and production-like environments.
• Manage environment schedules, dependencies, and competing demands across multiple workstreams.
• Ensure environments are fit for purpose and available to support agreed testing milestones.
• Monitor environment health, stability, and readiness, escalating risks and issues as required.

Release Management

• Develop and maintain integrated release calendars across ASX, vendors, and internal technology teams.
• Coordinate release planning, deployment activities, rollback procedures, and production readiness reviews.
• Manage release governance, approvals, and change processes.
• Facilitate release rehearsals and implementation readiness activities.
• Ensure releases are executed in a controlled, auditable, and low-risk manner.

Testing Enablement

• Work closely with the Testing Lead and QA teams to ensure environments meet testing requirements.
• Coordinate environment readiness for End-to-End Testing, integration testing, and customer testing activities.
• Track environment-related defects, dependencies, and blockers.
• Support test execution planning and scheduling activities.

Customer & Stakeholder Coordination

• Act as the primary contact for environment and release matters across project teams and external participants.
• Coordinate customer access, environment onboarding, and testing support activities.
• Facilitate workshops and planning sessions involving technology, testing, operations, vendors, and customers.
• Provide regular status reporting on environment readiness and release progress.

Implementation Readiness

• Support Industry-Wide Testing (IWT) and implementation readiness activities.
• Lead deployment rehearsals, dress rehearsals, and operational readiness exercises.
• Coordinate go-live planning, cutover preparation, and implementation governance.
• Contribute to contingency planning and risk mitigation strategies.

Governance & Reporting

• Maintain environment and release governance artefacts.
• Produce regular reporting on risks, issues, dependencies, environment usage, and release status.
• Ensure adherence to ASX delivery, change management, and operational risk frameworks.

Your experience and qualifications

Must have:

• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in Environment Management, Release Management, Program Delivery, or Test Management roles.
• Experience managing complex environments across large-scale technology transformation programs.
• Strong understanding of software delivery lifecycles, testing phases, and release processes.
• Experience coordinating multiple stakeholders, vendors, and delivery teams.
• Demonstrated risk management and issue resolution capability.
• Excellent communication, planning, and organisational skills.
• Experience and knowledge of release management principles, methodologies and tools.
• Experience supporting large-scale customer testing or industry-wide testing programs.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tooling, release automation, and environment orchestration.
• Experience supporting major implementation or cutover events.
• Experience in highly regulated financial environments including clearing, trading, or exchange technology environments.
• Worked in a cross-functional, agile delivery team.
• Comfortable presenting at various forums and to senior stakeholders.

Nice to have:

• Strong stakeholder management, collaboration and leadership qualities.
• Strong sense of ownership, customer service and integrity demonstrated through clear communications.
• Passionate about Environment and Release Management.
• Understand challenges and trade-offs building, deploying, and running solutions in different environments.
  

We make hiring decisions based on your skills, capabilities and experience, and how you’ll help us to live our values. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all the criteria of this role.

If you need any adjustments during the application or interview process to help you present your best self, please let us know at [email protected].

At ASX Group, our diverse workforce is essential to build and maintain a fair and dynamic marketplace. We support flexible working and offer hybrid working options. Even if our roles are advertised as full-time, we encourage you to apply if you are interested in part-time or other flexible working arrangements.

We will arrange for successful candidates to have background checks, including reference and police checks, completed as part of the on-boarding process.

To be considered for this position, candidates must be legally authorised to work in Australia on a permanent basis without any restrictions.