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're offering this role at director level
What you'll doAs a Release Train Manager, youll 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, youll provide cross-team synchronisation, making sure everyone has a clear understanding of how their work helps our customers.Youll drive continuous improvement across delivery via various channels, including improving or removing manual steps. Well 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 needWere looking for someone with an expert understanding of running complex projects spanning multiple scrum and non-scrum teams.Youll also need:
The ability to manage front door prioritisation process with all stakeholders, tech change and COO for all CTB/KSOR work for Markets securities suite of application
Expert level knowledge and proficiency with business analysis responsibilities for some of the projects which will need domain and techno functional understanding and breath first governance and agile SDLC for other program
Familiarity with high level tech concepts, experience in building trading platforms, spearheading tech transformation, GCP migration
Experience of running multiple matrix managed teams