Job Description

Our people work differently depending on their jobs and needs. From hybrid working to flexible hours, we have plenty of options that help our people to thrive. This role is based in India and as such all normal working days must be carried out in India. Join us as a Release Train Manager

• This is an opportunity to be a part of an Agile team and be responsible for aligning the vision, planning, and interdependencies of many teams
• With no two days the same, you\'ll have the chance to be a true servant leader and help ensure consistent Agile delivery at scale
• In this exciting role, you\'ll enjoy regular engagements with key stakeholders, as well as the opportunity to build your network across our bank
• We\'re offering this role at vice president level

What you\'ll do

Day-to-day, you\xe2\x80\x99ll be developing and maintaining the release train. This\'ll include the preparation and review of the release and environment strategy, involving plans and estimation and the management of interdependencies. You\xe2\x80\x99ll drive continuous improvement across delivery through various channels, including improving or removing manual steps, and we\xe2\x80\x99ll look to you to demonstrably improve release train agility and value to end state customers. Your responsibilities will include:

• Enhancing the deployment and management phases of the development lifecycle, including through Agile coaching and contribution to release and environment best practices
• Helping with the preparation of the release and sprint vision, goals and work pipelines and aiding with the 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 through teams and the roll up to programme and portfolio levels

The skills you\'ll need

To be successful in this role, you\'ll need at least five years\' experience of release train management or delivery within a technology environment. Alongside this, you\'ll need experience of Agile methodologies when applied to technology delivery. As this role will have line management responsibilities, experience of direct line management or mentoring would be advantageous. You\xe2\x80\x99ll also need:

• Excellent stakeholder management skills across both end user, business and technology
• The ability to prioritise and sequence tasks that\'re to be delivered by the feature teams
• Good servant leadership capabilities along with the ability to create and share our bank\'s vision
• Experience of running multiple matrix-managed teams