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 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
This role is available 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 need experience in managing release trains supporting a customer lifecycle such as onboarding, channel enrolment and digital servicing across Retail, Commercial and the Wealth banking domain.
You'll also need experience of managing customer journeys' transformation by leveraging cutting edge data capabilities such as third party APIs and third party verification services. It'll be ideal if you have exposure to master data management and core customer data.
You’ll also need:
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
Strong stakeholder skills with the ability to influence both business and technical partners
Experience of running multiple matrix managed teams
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 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
This role is available 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 need experience in managing release trains supporting a customer lifecycle such as onboarding, channel enrolment and digital servicing across Retail, Commercial and the Wealth banking domain.
You'll also need experience of managing customer journeys' transformation by leveraging cutting edge data capabilities such as third party APIs and third party verification services. It'll be ideal if you have exposure to master data management and core customer data.
You’ll also need:
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
Strong stakeholder skills with the ability to influence both business and technical partners
Experience of running multiple matrix managed teams
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Release Train Manager| VP position is now open for candidates interested in the Bank Jobs sector. This role in Chennai offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Bank Jobs is a plus.