Technology Release Train Manager, Mobile Apps

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Job summary

A leading financial institution in London seeks a Technology Release Train Manager to enhance delivery processes and lead complex projects in mobile banking. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Agile methodologies and stakeholder management. Responsibilities include maintaining the release train strategy and driving continuous improvement across delivery channels. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future banking experience.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to prioritize and sequence tasks for feature teams.
• Strong servant leadership capabilities.
• Experience with running multiple matrix managed teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the release train strategy.
• Drive continuous improvement in delivery processes.
• Facilitate pre and post planning meetings.

Skills

Expert understanding of running complex projects

Knowledge of Mobile and AWS Cloud Platform

Proficiency with scaled Agile methodologies

Strong stakeholder management skills

Experience delivering mobile banking applications

Tools

P3M tools

All-Stacks

Job description

Join us as a Technology Release Train Manager, Mobile Apps

• Join our Chief Digital Information Office in Commercial & Institutional, where we harness technology innovation, business agility and one-bank collaboration to push the boundaries of what’s possible for our customers
• The wellbeing and growth of our people is fundamental to our shared success, which is why we’re passionate about cultivating an environment that fosters inclusion and champions potential
• Our journey will be challenging and complex, but truly transformative – so if you’re ready to stretch your capability, gain unique experience and shape the future banking experience for generations to come, this is your opportunity

What you'll do

You’ll be joining our Digital domain, where our digital strategy is driving the delivery of a digital ecosystem that improves the customer experience, enables our colleagues to better serve our customers, and achieves the growth and revenue goals of our business.

As a Technology Release Train Manager, you’ll be responsible for developing and maintaining the release train. This will include the preparation and review of the release and environment strategy, involving plans and estimation and managing 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 drive continuous improvement across delivery via various channels, including improving or removing manual steps. We’ll look to you to demonstrably improve release train agility and value to end state customers.

Your responsibilities will include:

• 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 be able to navigate through multiple technologies such as Mobile and AWS Cloud Platform through to the banks’ core mainframes.

You’ll also need:

• Experience and background in delivering mobile banking applications spanning across the client and the m-platform server technology that provides the connectivity to the banks’ core systems
• Expert level knowledge and proficiency with scaled Agile and P3M tools and methodologies spanning value stream, portfolio, programme and team levels
• The ability to prioritise and sequence tasks that are to be delivered by the feature teams
• Strong servant leadership capabilities along with the ability to create and share a vision in-line with the bank’s
• Great stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence both business and technical partners across a range of seniority levels
• Experience of running multiple matrix managed teams
• Expert knowledge of using data led tools such as All-Stacks to optimise the flow of work from idea to value