Release Train Engineer

Jobtailor; Farnborough; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in the United Kingdom seeks a Release Train Engineer to lead an Agile Release Train, align PI planning, and drive continuous improvement across multi-team delivery. You will manage dependencies, engage customer stakeholders, and own release scope and governance.

The role emphasizes Jira and Git/Bitbucket workflows, strong delivery focus, and coordination of virtual PI events within SAFe practices.

Qualifications

• Proven experience performing RTE-like responsibilities in a large-scale agile environment.
• Strong working knowledge of Jira, including workflow management and reporting.
• Understanding of Git / Bitbucket workflows and pull request governance.
• Understanding of Git / Bitbucket branching strategies.
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage complex, multi-team delivery.
• Exceptional attention to detail.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, comfortable engaging with engineers, PMs, and customers.
• Positive, delivery-focused mindset with a bias toward flow and production delivery.
• Experience operating within SAFe Agile Release Trains (desirable).
• Experience in regulated or controlled delivery environments (desirable).
• Familiarity with release governance, change control, and multi-environment delivery (desirable).
• Familiarity with cloud technologies and IaC (desirable).
• Familiarity with software development, including Java (desirable).
• Familiarity with databases (desirable).
• Familiarity with Unix/Linux operational skills (desirable).

Responsibilities

• Act as Release Train Engineer for the Agile Release Train and facilitate execution and continuous improvement.
• Serve as PI Master of Ceremonies and prepare, facilitate, and follow up on PI Planning events.
• Maintain Features, Enablers, and supporting scope in Jira.
• Coordinate priorities and dependencies with Project Managers.
• Engage customer stakeholders on PI priorities, scope, and sequencing.
• Own PI agendas and coordinate presentation content.
• Schedule and facilitate primarily virtual PI events.
• Produce PI-level reports and analyse trends such as scope creep and velocity.
• Lead Inspect & Adapt sessions, postmortems, and retrospectives.
• Track Lessons Learned and improvement actions across PIs.
• Own and manage release scope, including scope changes and stakeholder alignment.
• Reconcile PI commitments against release plans.
• Author customer-facing scope and release documentation.
• Own the Release & Activities Environment Schedule across all environments.
• Coordinate release and activity sequencing to minimise contention and delivery risk.
• Act as Configuration Manager and control deployments and environment changes.
• Bring changes through governance forums such as TAB.
• Coordinate deployments and cutovers with Engineering teams and the TIP Manager.
• Own build numbering and versioning standards.
• Gatekeep pull requests into release branches and verify reviews, static analysis, scope, commit standards, and conflict resolution.
• Merge release branches back into the main branch with Engineers.
• Verify Jira workflow states before merges.
• Conduct builds into environments and verify deployed builds.
• Author internal build notes and customer-facing release notes.
• Ensure Jira hygiene and workflow consistency before release cuts.
• Work with teams to resolve peer-review and release-readiness gaps.

Skills

Release Train Engineer

Jira workflow management

Git/Bitbucket workflows

SAFe familiarity

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Tools

Jira

Git/Bitbucket

Cloud technologies

Unix/Linux

Job description

• Act as the Release Train Engineer for the Agile Release Train, facilitating execution and continuous improvement
• Serve as PI Master of Ceremonies and prepare, facilitate, and follow up on PI Planning events
• Maintain Features, Enablers, and supporting scope in Jira
• Coordinate priorities and dependencies with Project Managers
• Engage customer stakeholders on PI priorities, scope, and sequencing
• Own PI agendas and coordinate presentation content
• Schedule and facilitate primarily virtual PI events
• Produce PI-level reports and analyse trends such as scope creep and velocity
• Lead Inspect & Adapt sessions, postmortems, and retrospectives
• Track Lessons Learned and improvement actions across PIs
• Own and manage release scope, including scope changes and stakeholder alignment
• Reconcile PI commitments against release plans
• Author customer-facing scope and release documentation
• Own the Release & Activities Environment Schedule across all environments
• Coordinate release and activity sequencing to minimise contention and delivery risk
• Act as Configuration Manager and control deployments and environment changes
• Bring changes through governance forums such as TAB
• Coordinate deployments and cutovers with Engineering teams and the TIP Manager
• Own build numbering and versioning standards
• Gatekeep pull requests into release branches and verify reviews, static analysis, scope, commit standards, and conflict resolution
• Merge release branches back into the main branch with Engineers
• Verify Jira workflow states before merges
• Conduct builds into environments and verify deployed builds
• Author internal build notes and customer-facing release notes
• Ensure Jira hygiene and workflow consistency before release cuts
• Work with teams to resolve peer-review and release-readiness gaps

Demonstrates expertise in Agile Release Train facilitation, including PI Planning, scope management, and stakeholder engagement. Proficient in Jira and Git/Bitbucket workflows, with a strong focus on delivery and continuous improvement in complex environments.

Requirements

• Proven experience performing RTE-like responsibilities in a large-scale agile environment
• Strong working knowledge of Jira, including workflow management and reporting
• Understanding of Git / Bitbucket workflows and pull request governance
• Understanding of Git / Bitbucket branching strategies
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage complex, multi-team delivery
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, comfortable engaging with engineers, PMs, and customers
• Positive, delivery-focused mindset with a bias toward flow and production delivery
• Experience operating within SAFe Agile Release Trains (desirable)
• Experience in regulated or controlled delivery environments (desirable)
• Familiarity with release governance, change control, and multi-environment delivery (desirable)
• Familiarity with cloud technologies and IaC (desirable)
• Familiarity with software development, including Java (desirable)
• Familiarity with databases (desirable)
• Familiarity with Unix/Linux operational skills (desirable)

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in Agile Release Train facilitation, including PI Planning, scope management, and stakeholder engagement. Proficient in Jira and Git/Bitbucket workflows, with a strong focus on delivery and continuous improvement in complex environments.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Release Train Engineer Experience
• Jira Workflow Management
• Git/Bitbucket Workflow Understanding
• SAFe Agile Methodology Familiarity
• Organizational Skills

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Agile Release Train Facilitation
• PI Planning Coordination
• Scope Management
• Trend Analysis
• Release Documentation Authoring
• Build Numbering Standards
• Versioning Standards
• Change Control
• Multi-Environment Delivery
• Software Development (Java)

Soft Skills

• Interpersonal Skills
• Communication Skills
• Attention to Detail
• Organizational Skills
• Delivery-Focused Mindset

Industry Keywords

• SAFe Agile
• Regulated Delivery Environments
• Release Governance
• Change Control
• Continuous Improvement

Tools & Technologies

• Jira
• Git
• Bitbucket
• Cloud Technologies
• Unix/Linux