SAFe Release Train Engineer - PI Planning & Delivery Lead

Jobtailor

Farnborough

Hybrid

GBP 70,000 - 110,000

Full time

5 days ago

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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.