Release Train Engineer

Why this job matters

BT’s modernisation and simplification programme is an exciting, innovative and ambitious programme of change that affects BT’s Digital Consumer function as well as our customers and partners.  We are focused in transforming our services in a collaborative human-centred way, shifting to agile working across the whole software lifecycle, strengthening our partnerships and improving our leadership and culture.  Our team structures and ways of working are changing.  We are growing our people’s skills for the future and we are evolving our platforms, architecture, data & insight, digital and tooling.

The purpose of this role is to facilitate alignment and planning readiness by working closely with other tribe RTEs to map dependencies and deliver end to end functionality. You'll co-ordinate with testing leads to plan testing, be responsible for managing delivery to live with release managers and drive improvement with new ideas processes to accelerate Digital Consumer's transformation to an agile organisation.

What you’ll be doing

• Manage the backlogs and facilitates the sequencing of work across the ART (Agile Release Train) to efficiently manage the overall development and the fixed resource utilisation. 
• Contribute towards programme level coordination, such as creating timelines, milestones, and cadence of increments and releases and contributes to the development of reports and analyses that document programme activity. 
• Facilitate quarterly alignment and planning readiness by driving cross-team synthesis of the vision, roadmap, and backlogs, and encourage collaboration across teams to help ensure strategy and execution alignment. 
• Facilitate the ART communication and coordination with stakeholders and customers during feature definition and delivery across multiple application transformation initiatives. 
• Execute coaching and provision of expertise to teams on how to break down work backlogs effectively, i.e. slicing for value, feature and capability estimation and the roll-up to Epics.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement by identifying and applying process enhancements, driving innovation, and encouraging team collaboration to enhance performance and achieve outstanding results.

Experience you'll have

• Be Agile: Solid understanding of lean Agile delivery practices with awareness of SAFe framework) with ability to lead collaborative agile ways of working and effectively manage changing priorities 
• Problem Solving: Must be able lead and take ownership of proactively solving technical delivery problems across squads that are multiplatform wide, impacting multiple services or cross Tribes/Business areas 
• Transformation: Be able to manage long term changes and adapting the Tribe/Release Train in line with business needs of frequent customer centric, high quality and low cost product delivery 
• JIRA: A great understanding of JIRA, reporting, dashboards etc and be able to drive improvement with best practices 

Preferred: 

• Technical Delivery: Agile Practitioner inc large scale agile delivery leadership, led Program Increment (big room) planning events aka QPP 
• Demonstrable experience of utilising Lean Six-Sigma methods to drive continuous improvements 
• Experience of applying agile Roadmap prioritisation processes at program and portfolio level

The skills you’ll need

Benefits

• An annual on-target bonus of 10% (personal and company multipliers)
• BT Pension scheme; minimum 5% employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
• Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
• 50% off EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans and 50% discount for friends and family on EE SIM only plans
• Discounted EE TV including TNT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership
• There’s also great support for working parents including pay whilst on maternity, adoptive, and paternity leave
• 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
• Volunteering days so you can give back to your local community
• Brand new electric vehicle salary sacrifice arrangement, known as ‘My EV’
   

Our leadership standards

Looking in:
Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.