Join us as a Technology Release Train Manager

• Join our Chief Information Office in Commercial & Institutional, where we harness technology innovation, business agility and one-bank collaboration to push the boundaries of what's possible for our customers
• The wellbeing and growth of our people is fundamental to our shared success, which is why we're passionate about cultivating an environment that fosters inclusion and champions potential
• Our journey will be challenging and complex, but truly transformative - so if you're ready to stretch your capability, gain unique experience and shape the future banking experience for generations to come, this is your opportunity

What you'll do

You're joining a team that's passionate about the customer vision and driving our growth agenda. Aligned to our Lending Product Pillar, you'll be working with your colleagues to deliver the technology strategic roadmap, while ensuring the right balance between our business goals and building future technology, at the right cost.

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 managing 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 also look to you to demonstrably improve release train agility and value to the customers.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Lead the delivery of the Release Train, ensuring alignment of cross-functional teams, managing timelines, coordinating releases, and driving continuous improvement to meet business objectives and quality standards
• Development and maintenance of the domain's Agile Release Train (ART), including the preparation and review of release and environment strategy, including plans and estimations, management of inter dependencies, and providing cross-team synchronisation to ensure teams have a clear understanding of how their work helps the customer
• 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 who is a strategic thinker with an expert understanding of running complex projects spanning multiple scrum and non-scrum teams.

You'll also need:

• A solid understanding of lending platforms, products and propositions
• Proven experience of AI implementations, adept at balancing customer value with responsible and ethical delivery
• 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
• Great stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence both business and technical partners
• Experience of running multiple matrix managed teams

Hours
35

Job Posting Closing Date:
13/07/2026

Ways of Working:Remote First