Release Train Engineer

at  Kings College London

Job id: 094788. Salary: £62,696 - £71,857 per annum including London Weighting Allowance..
Posted: 29 August 2024. Closing date: 15 September 2024.
Business unit: IT. Department: Education Portfolio.
Contact details: Vasantha Mountford. vasantha.mountford@kcl.ac.uk
Location: Guy’s Campus. Category: Professional & Support Services.
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About us:
King’s College London are currently recruiting a Release Train Engineer to lead the Student Lifecycle ART. This is a key leadership role in the Education & Students Portfolio in the IT Directorate, and you will need to be a dynamic, driven and high performing individual. Our team plays a key role in supporting the delivery of the Education Strategy within Strategy 2026 and the Student Futures Transformation Programme. You will also need to be committed to developing and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders across the organisation
About the role:
The RTE facilitates Agile practices and execution. They escalate impediments, manage risk, and help ensure value delivery and relentless improvement. RTEs will support Agile practices, coaching leaders, teams, and Scrum Master/Team Coaches in the mindset and processes. They also help adapt Agile to the organisation’s needs, standardising and documenting practices.
The successful candidate will be expected to build relationships across a wide stakeholder community and business partners to ensure the ART and constituent agile teams deliver value in line with the King’s Vision 2029 and Strategy 2026.
The RTE is responsible for Delivery Managers and is responsible to the Head of Portfolio.
This is a full-time role, and you will be offered an indefinite contract
About you: (the candidate)
To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:
Essential criteria
1. SAFe SPC or RTE certification
2. Expertise in Agile methods and approaches
3. Education to degree standard and/or equivalent qualifications/experience
4. Presentation skills and the ability to communicate confidently
5. Experience of managing, inspiring, engaging and motivating a team and colleagues to achieve excellent results
6. Ability to facilitate identification and management of priorities
7. Create an environment of mutual influence, encouraging the personal development of each individual and the development of teams
Desirable criteria
1. Scrum Master certification
2. Expertise in SAFe methods and approaches
3. Experience with Azure DevOps or similar tool and implementation of best practices in Agile tools and workflows
4. Experience of managing projects
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