Delivery Lead / Release Train Engineer (14 month)

Coventry Building Society; Coventry; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK building society is seeking a Release Train Engineer to work across their Data Portfolio. You will orchestrate delivery initiatives, coach teams in Agile methodologies, and manage Agile Release Train ceremonies. This role requires strong leadership in a data-driven environment, excellent communication skills, and experience in both Agile and Waterfall approaches. Benefits include a hybrid work model, bonus scheme, and comprehensive wellbeing support.

Benefits

28 days holiday plus bank holidays

Annual discretionary bonus scheme

Personal pension with matched contributions

Life assurance

Private medical insurance

Health screening eligibility

Qualifications

• Previous experience with leading teams within a Data-led context.
• Demonstrated experience of leading trains to delivery business prioritised outcomes.
• Ability to mitigate risks & dependencies at a train level.

Responsibilities

• Orchestrate delivery of multiple change initiatives across technology.
• Coach teams within an Agile Release Train to deliver significant outcomes.
• Manage effective Agile Release Train ceremonies ensuring expected outcomes.

Skills

Expert agile practitioner

Leadership in data-led context

Stakeholder management

Excellent communicator

Negotiate with internal and external stakeholders

Job description

About the role

Coventry Building Society have an exciting new role for a Release Train Engineer, to work across our Data Portfolio. Following the Co-operative Bank officially becoming part of our Group, we need to ensure successful integration of the two organisations. This role is pivotal in making this happen.

You’ll orchestrate delivery of multiple change initiatives, be working with a mixture of both dedicated and shared resources across technology and the business; and help coach teams within an Agile Release Train (ART) to deliver significant business outcomes in a dynamic environment that embraces new ways of working and continuous improvement. This also extends to working with more traditional programmatic portfolios to deliver joint outcomes.

The Release Train Engineer will also participate in the Lean‑Agile transformation, coaching leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters in the new processes and mind‑shifts. Managing and optimising the flow of value using various tools, agile management practices and DevOps ways of working, the Release Train Engineer will manage effective Agile Release Train (ART) ceremonies and practices, such as PI Planning, and Syncs, ensuring they deliver expected outcomes that drive relentless improvement.

Benefits

• 28 days holiday a year plus bank holidays and a holiday buy / sell scheme
• Annual discretionary bonus scheme
• Personal pension with matched contributions
• Life assurance (6 times annual salary)
• Private medical insurance
• Eligible for health screening

About you

You’ll be an expert agile practitioner with clear appreciation and experience of agile scaling frameworks, you will be conversant with both Waterfall and Agile Methodologies and techniques and how they can work harmoniously together as complimentary concepts.

You will have demonstrable experience of leading trains to delivery business prioritised outcomes and continuous improvement of Train performance.

As an experienced facilitator you’ll ensure every Agile Release Train (ART) ceremony delivers the expected outcomes, whilst juggling multiple tasks to deliver on time.

To be successful in this role, it’s essential that you’re able to demonstrate:

• The successful candidate will have previous experience with delivering and leading teams within a Data‑led context
• You’ll find solutions to delivery problems and issues, identifying and mitigating risks & dependencies at a train level, proactively contributing to management & identification of risks at a Portfolio level.
• As a person of integrity, you’ll recognise conflicts and issues early and enable the right conversations toward a solution.
• With experience across Waterfall and Agile adaptive delivery models and mind‑sets, a track record of operating effectively and delivering consistent results in a large complex business.
• You’ll have significant program management and technology delivery experience, relating to major IT and/or Business programs, with the ability to work strategically to support the shaping of future work and resource your train appropriately within agreed cost budgets.
• You’ll be an accomplished communicator that can deliver clear succinct messaging to all levels of the organisation, an excellent negotiator who can work with multiple parties to achieve alignment.
• A confident stakeholder manager with experience of working with and influencing internal stakeholders, at all levels of the organisation, as well as external stakeholders, and provisioned resources from partner organisations.

Desirable skills for this role are

• Be a people developer and coach, with the ability to listen, take ideals from your team and stakeholders and shield the team from external interference to create the space for optimal productivity and delivery.

Full time - 35hrs

About us

We’re one of the largest building societies in the UK and we share a mutual goal across our branches and our offices to improve the lives of others.

We’re officially recognised as a ‘Great Place to Work’ and our benefits go beyond basic pay, with a discretionary bonus scheme, a culture of reward and recognition and comprehensive support for wellbeing.

At the beginning of the year, The Co‑operative Bank officially became part of our Group. Together we have shared values and an ethical approach towards our members, customers, and colleagues.

We’re serious about equality, of race, age, faith, disability, and sexual orientation and we celebrate diversity. By working together, we know you’ll build more than just a career with us.

All together, better.

Flexibility and why it matters

We understand the need for flexibility, so wherever possible we’ll consider alternative working patterns. Have a chat with us before you apply to see what the possibilities are for this role.

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Location

Hybrid