Join us as a Release Train Manager
- This is a unique opportunity to join a fast paced and Agile team, responsible for aligning the vision, planning, and interdependencies of many teams by providing cross-team or domain synchronisation of the portfolio delivery and domain pipeline
- 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 the bank
- We are offering this role at vice president level
What you'll do
In this key role, you'll be developing and maintaining the release train. This will include the preparation and review of the release and environment strategy, involving plans and estimation, and management of 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, and 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 Also Need
- The ability to lead and orchestrate end-to-end delivery across the automation release train, ensuring alignment between engineering teams, business stakeholders, and platform priorities
- Drive planning, execution, and governance of releases, managing dependencies, risks, and delivery cadence in line with Agile and NatWest control frameworks
- Enable cross-team coordination to ensure predictable, high-quality delivery of automation and AI-led solutions at scale
- Champion continuous improvement across the train, enhancing flow, delivery efficiency, and stakeholder transparency
- Experience of running multiple matrix managed teams
