Release Train Engineer

Accenture in India; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture in India seeks a Release Train Engineer to facilitate Agile Release Train events, coordinate stakeholders, and drive improvements across telecom platforms. You will govern end-to-end release lifecycles, manage cross-functional dependencies, and ensure Go/No-Go decisions with robust risk mitigation.

The role requires at least 5 years of experience in agile release management and a strong grasp of BSS/OSS domains, with collaboration across business, operations, testing, and vendor teams

Qualifications

• Must have Agile Project Management.
• Minimum 5 Year(s) Of Experience Is Required.
• Educational Qualification: 15 years full time education.

Responsibilities

• Own and govern the end-to-end release lifecycle across telecom applications and platforms, from scope intake, planning, build readiness, testing, deployment, and Early Life Support (ELS).
• Develop and maintain integrated release plans across multiple telecom domains, including BSS/OSS platforms, Managed Services (Oracle COTS, TIL, CMT), non-managed services, network-facing systems, and third-party vendor dependencies.
• Manage cross-application, cross-vendor, and cross-functional dependencies to ensure seamless delivery of telecom business and technology releases.
• Assess release impacts across customer journeys, billing, charging, CRM, order management, provisioning, assurance, and downstream operational systems.
• Establish and enforce release governance, quality controls, and stage-gate criteria, ensuring all release readiness requirements are met before deployment.
• Monitor release progress, delivery milestones, and overall release health through RAG reporting, proactively identifying risks and execution challenges.
• Lead RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies) management, driving resolution and mitigation across internal delivery teams, managed service providers, and external suppliers.
• Coordinate with business, operations, testing, infrastructure, and vendor teams to ensure successful release planning, deployment readiness, and production stability.
• Drive release reviews, Go/No-Go decision-making processes, deployment governance, and stakeholder communications.
• Escalate critical delivery risks, deployment issues, service impacts, and mitigation plans to programme leadership and executive stakeholders.
• Oversee production deployments and hypercare support, ensuring smooth transition into Early Life Support and achievement of service-level commitments.
• Promote continuous improvement of release management processes, deployment automation, governance frameworks, and operational excellence across telecom transformation programmes.
• Lead and govern complex telecom releases by coordinating multiple delivery teams, vendors, OSS/BSS platforms, and business stakeholders to ensure predictable, high-quality, and low-risk deployments that support critical customer, operational, and business outcomes.

Skills

Agile Project Management

Education

15 years full time education

Job description

Project Role : Release Train Engineer

Project Role Description : Facilitates Agile Release Train events and processes, including communicating with stakeholders, escalating progress impediments, managing risk, and driving improvement. Works with Product/Solution Management, Product Owners, and other stakeholders to ensure strategy and execution alignment.

Must have skills :

• Agile Project Management

Good to have skills :

• NA

Minimum 5 Year(s) Of Experience Is Required

Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education

Key Responsibility Summary:

• Own and govern the end-to-end release lifecycle across telecom applications and platforms, from scope intake, planning, build readiness, testing, deployment, and Early Life Support (ELS).
• Develop and maintain integrated release plans across multiple telecom domains, including BSS/OSS platforms, Managed Services (Oracle COTS, TIL, CMT), non-managed services, network-facing systems, and third-party vendor dependencies.
• Manage cross-application, cross-vendor, and cross-functional dependencies to ensure seamless delivery of telecom business and technology releases.
• Assess release impacts across customer journeys, billing, charging, CRM, order management, provisioning, assurance, and downstream operational systems.
• Establish and enforce release governance, quality controls, and stage-gate criteria, ensuring all release readiness requirements are met before deployment.
• Monitor release progress, delivery milestones, and overall release health through RAG reporting, proactively identifying risks and execution challenges.
• Lead RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies) management, driving resolution and mitigation across internal delivery teams, managed service providers, and external suppliers.
• Coordinate with business, operations, testing, infrastructure, and vendor teams to ensure successful release planning, deployment readiness, and production stability.
• Drive release reviews, Go/No-Go decision-making processes, deployment governance, and stakeholder communications.
• Escalate critical delivery risks, deployment issues, service impacts, and mitigation plans to programme leadership and executive stakeholders.
• Oversee production deployments and hypercare support, ensuring smooth transition into Early Life Support and achievement of service-level commitments.
• Promote continuous improvement of release management processes, deployment automation, governance frameworks, and operational excellence across telecom transformation programmes.
• Lead and govern complex telecom releases by coordinating multiple delivery teams, vendors, OSS/BSS platforms, and business stakeholders to ensure predictable, high-quality, and low-risk deployments that support critical customer, operational, and business outcomes.