Solution Train Engineer in Bristol, United Kingdom

Solution Train Engineer

Job Req ID: 36728

Posting Date: 24 Jul 2024

Function: Agile Capability

Unit: Digital

Location:

Assembly, Bristol, United Kingdom

Salary: Competitive

Why this job matters

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Solution Train Engineer (STE) to oversee and manage multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs) within our organization. This role is crucial in ensuring the successful delivery of complex solutions by coordinating and facilitating activities across multiple release trains, aligning with the business objectives, and driving continuous improvement.

What you’ll be doing

• Oversee and coordinate multiple ARTs to ensure alignment with organizational goals and delivery timelines.

• Facilitate ART ceremonies, including PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, ART Sync.

• Ensure synchronization and integration across ARTs, addressing dependencies and risks effectively.

• Ensure all ARTs are aligned on goals, objectives, and deliverables.

• Support the creation and management of PI plans, ensuring alignment with business priorities and strategic objectives.

• Monitor PI progress and resolve impediments to ensure successful PI execution.

• Implement and promote best practices and processes to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of ARTs.

• Identify and implement opportunities for process improvements and innovation within the ARTs.

• Monitor and report on the performance of ARTs, ensuring they meet or exceed delivery objectives and quality standards.

Experience you’ll have

• Experience as an RTE/STE or as a large programme/portfolio manager in an Agile environment or managing large releases in an agile environment

• Experience with SAFe or similar Agile frameworks. Certified would be advantageous.

• Leadership and facilitation skills, with experience leading PI Planning and other ART ceremonies.

• Technical Background: While an STE doesn’t necessarily need to be a software developer, having a solid technical background is beneficial.

Benefits

• An annual on-target bonus of 10% (personal and company multipliers)

• BT Pension scheme; minimum 5% employee contribution, BT contribution 10%

• Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages

• 50% off EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans and 50% discount for friends and family on EE SIM only plans

• Discounted EE TV including TNT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership

• There’s also great support for working parents including pay whilst on maternity, adoptive, and paternity leave

• 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service

• Volunteering days so you can give back to your local community

• Brand new electric vehicle salary sacrifice arrangement, known as ‘My EV’

The skills you’ll need

Data Modelling

Continuous Improvement

Issue Resolution

Requirements Gathering

Value Stream Mapping

Sprint Events/Ceremonies

Lean Portfolio Management (LPM)

Stakeholder Management

Negotiation

Data Analysis

Agile Methodologies

Requirements Management

Backlog Prioritisation

Project/Programme Management

Decision Making

Growth Mindset

Risk Management

Inclusive Leadership

Our leadership standards

Looking in:

Leading inclusively and Safely

I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.

Owning outcomes

I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:

Delivering for the customer

I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.

Commercially savvy

I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:

Growth mindset

I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.

Building for the future

I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.

About us

BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.

Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.

We value diversity and celebrate difference. ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’

We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.

This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

DON’T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?

Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway – you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.