Join us as a Release Train Manager
- 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’re joining a team that’s passionate about the customer vision and driving our growth agenda. Aligned to our ‘Lending’ customer goal, you’ll be working with your colleagues to deliver the technology strategic roadmap, while ensuring the right balance between our business goals and building future technology, at the right cost.
In this key role, 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:
- Development and maintenance of the domain’s Agile Release Train (ART)
- Preparation and review of release and environment strategy, including plans and estimations, management of interdependencies, and providing cross-team synchronisation
- 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 who is a strategic thinker with an expert understanding of running complex projects spanning multiple scrum and non-scrum teams.
You’ll also need:
- A solid understanding of lending platforms, products and propositions
- Proven experience of AI implementations, with the ability to balance customer value with responsible and ethical delivery
- 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
- Experience of running multiple matrix managed teams
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