Release Train Engineer

Life can sometimes be unpredictable, and it pays to plan ahead. Our aim at Legal & General Retail is to help our customers plan for the unexpected, achieve financial security for their tomorrow, and protect everything that’s important to them. To better understand our customers and meet their needs, we’ve brought our protection, retirement income, savings, lending and advice, fintech and mortgage businesses under one umbrella. Created at the start of 2022 through the merging of our long-standing and trusted retail retirement and insurance businesses, we’re a fast-growing division with big, customer-centered ambitions. 

We have an exciting new opportunity here at Legal & General, where we are currently looking for Release Train Engineer to join one of the largest strategic programmes in the business. Sequoia is a 4-year programme that is being delivered in an Agile delivery framework and will deliver significant changes to modernise the core system and also transform the user experience for our operational colleagues, providing the latest technology and automated processes.

The role of the Release Train Engineer: a servant leader who facilitates Agile Release Train level processes and execution, is responsible for implementing ways of working, drives continuous development, manages risks and escalates impediments to ensure goals and objectives of the Product Managers and Owner are achieved.

What you'll be doing

• Leading the creation ART ways of working, operating model, governance, resourcing strategy and dependency/risks/issue management to support the ART and teams to deliver against the overall vision, objectives, and plans.
• Managing the creation of high performing cross functional teams to maximise ART and team delivery efficiency and successful delivery of products/capabilities as per CPO/PM/PO backlogs, by utilising delivery metrics, ART-wide retrospectives and research into new change / delivery tools, to provide insight and drive improvements. 
• Establishing and maintaining the ART’s ways of working, delivery standards and deployment process into the organisation effectively, achieving a consistent, resilient, and reliable service for the products and capabilities it builds and supports post change.
• Implementing and managing effective ceremonies, coaching and communication channels/processes with ART Scrum Masters to support and manage the delivery of the ART, aimed at resolving conflicts of interest, efficient decision making and effectively managing cross-team and outside of ART dependencies.
• Coaching and supporting the Product Management/Product Owner community in aligning and defining on longer-term roadmaps, by facilitating Product Management and ART Syncs (when required), supporting the facilitation of Senior Governance Forums, lead on management stakeholder relationship across the business and effectively track/realise benefits of the work delivered.
• Taking overall accountability for Strategic alignment/organisational readiness, leadership and team preparedness, and all logistics related to Planning Interval events, including being the main facilitator across the events ensuring best practices are adhered to, whilst relentlessly improving it through regular feedback/retrospectives.

• Leading the creation ART ways of working, operating model, governance, resourcing strategy and dependency/risks/issue management to support the ART and teams to deliver against the overall vision, objectives, and plans.
• Managing the creation of high performing cross functional teams to maximise ART and team delivery efficiency and successful delivery of products/capabilities as per CPO/PM/PO backlogs, by utilising delivery metrics, ART-wide retrospectives and research into new change / delivery tools, to provide insight and drive improvements. 
• Establishing and maintaining the ART’s ways of working, delivery standards and deployment process into the organisation effectively, achieving a consistent, resilient, and reliable service for the products and capabilities it builds and supports post change.
• Implementing and managing effective ceremonies, coaching and communication channels/processes with ART Scrum Masters to support and manage the delivery of the ART, aimed at resolving conflicts of interest, efficient decision making and effectively managing cross-team and outside of ART dependencies.
• Coaching and supporting the Product Management/Product Owner community in aligning and defining on longer-term roadmaps, by facilitating Product Management and ART Syncs (when required), supporting the facilitation of Senior Governance Forums, lead on management stakeholder relationship across the business and effectively track/realise benefits of the work delivered.
• Taking overall accountability for Strategic alignment/organisational readiness, leadership and team preparedness, and all logistics related to Planning Interval events, including being the main facilitator across the events ensuring best practices are adhered to, whilst relentlessly improving it through regular feedback/retrospectives.

The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.

Since 1836, we’ve grown to become one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurance brands. 

We’re all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long term, and create value for our shareholders - helping to shape a better future for society and the planet.

We need people who share our ambitions, agility and entrepreneurial spirit to help us do it.

At L&G, you’ll find a balance that helps you be your best. Empowered by hybrid working, we’re supported by technology and workplaces that enable us to work effectively wherever we are. We come together in offices to collaborate and connect, and use time at home for individual, focused activities. And, when we achieve great things, we celebrate our success and reward strong performance.

Today, there’s over 10,000 of us, working towards our mission, with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as we grow L&G. Will you join us?

Great minds don’t have to think alike, so we welcome voices from all backgrounds. Bringing together people with different life experiences helps us build empathy with our customers and drive innovation.

We don’t just talk about it, we actively promote diversity and equitable opportunities for all. That means our employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status. In fact, we embrace every dimension of diversity to reflect the customers and communities we serve.

We think it’s important to create an inclusive environment where we can all belong, contribute and drive progress, where you can develop and grow, and be empowered. We want you to use your voice to help us build a better tomorrow.

We all work differently, and have different needs, which is why. we’re always open to discussing flexible working arrangements. Likewise, we’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs during our recruiting process.

So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.