Join us as a Release Train Manager
- Join a fast‑paced and Agile environment, you’ll facilitate the planning, timing and execution of delivery roadmaps and pipelines within and across our domain platforms
- You’ll work closely with a wide range of stakeholders, building strong networks across the bank in a fast‑moving environment where no two days are the same
- You’ll enable consistent Agile delivery, helping teams stay aligned to shared strategic outcomes
- If you don’t currently live in the Isle of Man or Jersey, you’ll need to clearly state on your CV that you have the right to live and work here to be considered for this role
What you'll do
As a Release Train Manager, you’ll develop and maintain the release train, including preparing and reviewing release and environment strategies. You’ll build a deep understanding of vision, plans and interdependencies across multiple teams, bringing them into alignment so portfolio and domain pipelines remain synchronised.
This is a highly collaborative role where you’ll work closely with product owners, domain and platform leads and other key stakeholders to ensure alignment between strategy and delivery. You’ll encourage collaboration across teams, value streams, domains and centres of excellence, helping everyone understand how their work contributes to better customer outcomes.
Other responsibilities include:
- Driving continuous improvement through Agile coaching, Inspect & Adapt workshops, and exploring alternative delivery approaches
- Using Agile tools and techniques to optimise delivery flow and the rate at which programmes deliver business value
- Building and communicating release calendars and iterative planning cycles, coordinating with other release train managers across domains
- Facilitating the preparation of release and sprint visions, goals and work pipelines, including pre‑ and post‑planning events
- Supporting the execution of business outcomes, features and capabilities by reporting on progress, escalating risks, and tracking impediments
The skills you’ll need
We’re looking for a confident, credible delivery leader who thrives in complex environments.
You’ll bring:
- Extensive experience running large‑scale, complex programmes across multiple Scrum and non‑Scrum teams
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence both business and technical partners
- A collaborative, servant‑leadership mindset with a passion for Agile ways of working
You’ll also demonstrate the ability to:
- Provide visible, hands-on leadership across engineering delivery teams, drawing on a strong software engineering or development management background to drive alignment to customer, platform and programme outcomes, while actively supporting delivery execution and resolving technical risks
- Lead end-to-end delivery of complex technology solutions, combining technical credibility with pragmatic application of Agile, Waterfall and scaled delivery practices to achieve predictable, high-quality outcomes
- Build strong relationships across engineering, architecture, product, operations and platform teams, using deep technical understanding to influence prioritisation, solution design, planning, dependency management and delivery decision-making
- Bring proven experience leading software engineering teams, with strong understanding of modern development practices, software development lifecycle, cloud-native technologies, CI/CD, DevOps tooling and customer-facing digital platforms
- Act as a catalyst for engineering excellence and continuous improvement, operating comfortably at both strategic and day-to-day levels, coaching teams, challenging approaches where appropriate and supporting the successful delivery of complex technology outcomes
Hours
35Job Posting Closing Date:
05/07/2026Ways of Working:HybridSkills Required
- Extensive experience running large-scale, complex programmes across multiple Scrum and non-Scrum teams
- Strong stakeholder management skills with ability to influence business and technical partners
- Collaborative, servant-leadership mindset and passion for Agile ways of working
- Hands-on leadership across engineering delivery teams with a software engineering or development management background
- Proven experience leading end-to-end delivery of complex technology solutions using Agile, Waterfall, and scaled delivery practices
- Deep technical understanding of modern development practices, software development lifecycle, cloud-native technologies, CI/CD and DevOps tooling
- Ability to build relationships across engineering, architecture, product, operations and platform teams and influence prioritisation and design
- Right to live and work in the Isle of Man or Jersey (must state on CV to be considered)
NatWest Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about NatWest Group and has not been reviewed or approved by NatWest Group.
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Flexible Benefits — A flexible ValueAccount structure with pension and benefit funding allows tailoring of health, protection, lifestyle, and savings options, with unused amounts typically paid as cash. This flexibility supports personalisation of coverage, particularly in Great Britain where the framework is most detailed.
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Retirement Support — Employer-funded pension contributions are provided on top of salary in Great Britain, alongside automatic retirement enrollment and share/save programs. This creates structured long‑term wealth support as part of total reward.
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Parental & Family Support — UK policies outline extended maternity, adoption and equal partner leave on full pay with a phased return, plus paid neonatal care leave. These provisions are positioned as market‑leading and complement broader flexibility resources.
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What We Do
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate. As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these. Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence. One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025. We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
