Job title: Specialist Technical Delivery – Agile Release Train Engineer

Company: BT

Job description: Our mission is to break down the barriers of today to release the potential of tomorrow. Join us today and release yours.

There are two things that we want to share with anyone considering joining us.

Firstly, we’ve got big ambitions for our colleagues and the future of the organisation. These include our vision that inclusion and accessibility drive every conversation we have and every decision we make. We want our workforce to fully represent the communities and customers we serve, because a diverse business is a better business. We value every colleague, their diversity and the contribution that they make. When we say you’re welcome at BT, we really mean it.

Secondly, the one thing the pandemic has taught us is that a lot of current and future colleagues, where and when possible, want to embrace hybrid working. Therefore, we are introducing smart working at BT. Smart working means having the flexibility to choose, as a team, how and where you work depending on your team’s deliverables and needs; when you are at your shared core location to connect with others and when not. It may not be for every role, and, as part of the recruitment process, you’ll have the chance to discuss smart working and how it might work for the job you are applying for.

About this role

This role is a servant leader and coach for a team of Agile squads (Agile Release Train/Tribe) whom are working towards building new products, common capabilities and enablers. It will deliver key commercial technical delivery outcomes whilst creating a culture of continuous development that nurtures a World Class Technical Delivery Organisation. The purpose of this role is to facilitate quarterly alignment and planning readiness by driving cross-squad synthesis of the Vision, Roadmap, and Backlogs, and encourages collaboration across the squads to help ensure strategy and execution alignment. Managing incremental delivery of a product and capability demand Roadmap. Delivery accountability spans from managing pre-Program Increment Planning readiness, through to post-Program Increment retrospectives and improvement planning. Drives lean-agile mindsets and practices, fostering collaboration and enhanced employee experience.

You’ll have the following responsibilities

• Coordination across squads to deliver large scale technology development through technical releases to support quarterly Business Goals

• Summarises tribe objectves and publishes them for visibility and transparency.

• Support Tribe Lead and Squad leadership in the shaping and prioritisation of the backlog in readiness for quarterly delivery Program increments

• Plan and facilitate quarterly Program Increment Planning events

• Facilitate periodic synchronisation meetings including Scrum of scrums and Product Owner (PO) sync; system and solution demos

• Manages demand and optimise flow of value through the squads using kanbans; assessing and driving improvements to DevOps and release on Demand in the CI/CD pipeline

• Coach squads on Agile delivery best practices; leading regular retrospective and continuous improvement activities to create high performing squads focused on customer centricity and value

• Manage inter squad dependencies and drive issue resolution including impediment escalations where appropriate; set and drive achievement against key performance metrics

• Senior stakeholder management including business value orientated progress reporting on cadence; major release and change management against commitments

• Support agile maturity assessment of squads and help them improve

• Work with Technology accelerator LPS to input to cross functional Tribe alignment.

You’ll have the following skills & experience

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• Be Agile: Solid understanding of lean Agile delivery practices with awareness of major frameworks (i.e. SAFe, LeSS, Spotify) 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

• Industry standard qualifications in Agile Leadership (i.e. Leading SAFe, SPC) and Scrum Mastering (i.e. CSM), Lean Six-Sigma

MANDATORY EXPERIENCE:

• People Leader: Strong experience in leading team of 5+ people (either direct or matrix)

• Stakeholder Communication: Experience in communicating to senior leadership team with view to collaborative decision making

• Technical Delivery: Proven successful delivery track record on complex, high-profile technology enablers and/or programmes that cross multiple domains/teams

• Change Agent: Participation in Agile transformation leadership driving incremental improvements in agile maturity

• Team Coach: Adept at building high performance teams

DESIRABLE:

 Technical Delivery: Agile Practitioner: large scale agile delivery leadership, led Program Increment (big room) planning events

 Demonstrable experience of utilising Lean Six-Sigma methods to drive contiuouse improvements

 Experience of applying agile Roadmap prioritisation processes at program and portfolio level

About BT

BT has a key role in British society, fostering change and leading technology innovation. From delivering the Olympics, to supporting the emergency services, to investing more into research than any other UK technology company, we take pride in everything we do – and in the people who work here.

We’re now a global company operating at the forefront of the information age, employing 90,000 people in 180 countries. And we’re on a mission. Guided by our core values of Personal, Simple and Brilliant our goal is to help customers, communities and businesses overcome barriers and release their potential.

So, if you’re interested in the power of potential, why not join us today and release yours? You can read more here about

How to Apply

It’s easy to apply online; you just need a copy of your up-to-date CV and to follow the step-by step process. Don’t worry if you need to make changes – you’ll have the opportunity to review and edit your work on the final page. We look forward to receiving your application!

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Location: Bangalore, Karnataka

Job date: Fri, 08 Jul 2022 01:09:43 GMT

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