Digital Release Train Engineer

NatWest Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A major financial services company is seeking a Digital Release Train Engineer. You will lead the development and maintenance of the Agile Release Train while enhancing deployment phases. Ideal candidates have expert knowledge of Agile methodologies and experience in managing cross-functional teams. This role offers the chance to work in a collaborative environment focused on innovation and improvement.

Qualifications

• Expert understanding of running complex projects across multiple teams.
• Proficiency in Agile frameworks and methodologies.
• Strong commitment to personal and professional development.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the Agile Release Train.
• Facilitate estimation and planning meetings.
• Enhance deployment phases of the development lifecycle.

Skills

Expert knowledge of scaled Agile and P3M tools

Proficient with Jira and Confluence

Leadership and coaching skills

Strong servant leadership capabilities

Experience in Agile methodologies

Education

Professional certificate in Agile methodologies or Project Management

Job description

Join us as a Digital Release Train Engineer

• We’re looking for a passionate and experienced Release Train Engineer (RTE) to join our Digital Investments domain within Wealth Chief Digital Information Office (WCDIO)
• This is an exciting opportunity for someone interested in working in an international environment, while being able to interact with various stakeholders across multiple locations
• You will have the chance to work in an organisation utilising exciting and modern technology to build innovative digital solutions
• You will have the opportunity to share your technical expertise in a collaborative, agile and forward-thinking team oriented environment

What you\'ll do

In this key role, you’ll be developing and maintaining the release train. This will include the preparation and review of the release and environment strategy, involving plans and estimation, and management of interdependencies. With your vital leadership, you’ll provide cross-team synchronisation, making sure everyone has a clear understanding of how their work helps our customers.

You’ll lead on continuous improvement across delivery via various channels, including improving or removing manual steps, and we’ll look to you to demonstrably improve release train agility and value to end state customers.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Development and maintenance of the domain’s Agile Release Train (ART), including the preparation and review of release and environment strategy, including plans and estimations, management of inter dependencies, and providing cross-team synchronisation to ensure teams have a clear understanding of how their work helps the customer
• Enhancing deployment and management phases of the development lifecycle, including through Agile coaching and active contribution to release and environment best practice
• Facilitating and fostering the preparation of release and sprint vision, goals and work pipelines and facilitating pre and post planning meetings
• Building and communicating release calendars and iterative planning cycles and synchronising with other release train managers across domains
• Aggregating the programme release objectives into value streams release objectives where they exist and publishing them for visibility and transparency
• Assisting with the economic decision-making by facilitating estimation by teams and the roll up to programme and portfolio levels

The skills you\'ll need

We’re looking for someone with an expert understanding of running complex projects spanning multiple scrum and non-scrum teams. You’ll also need high proficiency with Jira and Confluence and will be required to hold a professional certificate in Agile methodologies or Project Management such as SAFE, SCRUM or PMP.

In addition, you’ll need to be a proactive learner with strong commitment to personal and professional development, with a willingness to evolve in a dynamic environment, along with being innovative, striving for improvement and leading by example.

You’ll also need:

• Expert level knowledge and proven proficiency with scaled Agile and P3M tools and methodologies spanning value stream, portfolio, programme and team levels
• Proven leadership and coaching skills with the ability to inspire and support Agile teams
• Strong servant leadership capabilities along with the ability to create and share a vision in-line with the bank’s
• Proven experience in engaging and influencing both business and technical partners to facilitate meaningful and productive conversations
• Proven experience of managing multiple cross-functional teams to deliver business value, with a history of successful software project outcomes