Company: Jobtailor

Apply for the Release Train Engineer

Location: Farnborough

Job Description:

Act as the Release Train Engineer for the Agile Release Train, facilitating execution and continuous improvement
Serve as PI Master of Ceremonies and prepare, facilitate, and follow up on PI Planning events
Maintain Features, Enablers, and supporting scope in Jira
Coordinate priorities and dependencies with Project Managers
Engage customer stakeholders on PI priorities, scope, and sequencing
Own PI agendas and coordinate presentation content
Schedule and facilitate primarily virtual PI events
Produce PI-level reports and analyse trends such as scope creep and velocity
Lead Inspect & Adapt sessions, postmortems, and retrospectives
Track Lessons Learned and improvement actions across PIs
Own and manage release scope, including scope changes and stakeholder alignment
Reconcile PI commitments against release plans
Author customer-facing scope and release documentation
Own the Release & Activities Environment Schedule across all environments
Coordinate release and activity sequencing to minimise contention and delivery risk
Act as Configuration Manager and control deployments and environment changes
Bring changes through governance forums such as TAB
Coordinate deployments and cutovers with Engineering teams and the TIP Manager
Own build numbering and versioning standards
Gatekeep pull requests into release branches and verify reviews, static analysis, scope, commit standards, and conflict resolution
Merge release branches back into the main branch with Engineers
Verify Jira workflow states before merges
Conduct builds into environments and verify deployed builds
Author internal build notes and customer-facing release notes
Ensure Jira hygiene and workflow consistency before release cuts
Work with teams to resolve peer-review and release-readiness gaps

Demonstrates expertise in Agile Release Train facilitation, including PI Planning, scope management, and stakeholder engagement. Proficient in Jira and Git/Bitbucket workflows, with a strong focus on delivery and continuous improvement in complex environments.

Requirements

Proven experience performing RTE-like responsibilities in a large-scale agile environment
Strong working knowledge of Jira, including workflow management and reporting
Understanding of Git / Bitbucket workflows and pull request governance
Understanding of Git / Bitbucket branching strategies
Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage complex, multi-team delivery
Exceptional attention to detail
Strong interpersonal and communication skills, comfortable engaging with engineers, PMs, and customers
Positive, delivery-focused mindset with a bias toward flow and production delivery
Experience operating within SAFe Agile Release Trains (desirable)
Experience in regulated or controlled delivery environments (desirable)
Familiarity with release governance, change control, and multi-environment delivery (desirable)
Familiarity with cloud technologies and IaC (desirable)
Familiarity with software development, including Java (desirable)
Familiarity with databases (desirable)
Familiarity with Unix/Linux operational skills (desirable)

Core Competencies

Highest-signal resume keywords

Release Train Engineer Experience
Jira Workflow Management
Git/Bitbucket Workflow Understanding
SAFe Agile Methodology Familiarity
Organizational Skills

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

Agile Release Train Facilitation
PI Planning Coordination
Scope Management
Trend Analysis
Release Documentation Authoring
Build Numbering Standards
Versioning Standards
Change Control
Multi-Environment Delivery
Software Development (Java)

Soft Skills

Interpersonal Skills
Communication Skills
Attention to Detail
Organizational Skills
Delivery-Focused Mindset

Industry Keywords

SAFe Agile
Regulated Delivery Environments
Release Governance
Change Control
Continuous Improvement

Tools & Technologies

Jira
Git
Bitbucket
Cloud Technologies
Unix/Linux

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Posted: September 12th, 2026