Release Train Engineer (RTE)

Job Description

Job Title: Release Train Engineer (RTE)

Location: Preston/Frimley. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Circa £75,000 dependent on experience

Who we are:

Join BAE Systems and you’ll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you’ll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You’ll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow, shaping a safer future, for all of us.

From the depths of the ocean, to the far reaches of space, there’s no limit to where a career at BAE Systems could take you.

Job Description:

The Release Train Engineer (RTE) is responsible for leading and coordinating Agile delivery across the M365 Agile Release Train (ART), ensuring alignment with enterprise transformation initiatives including OneDDC and Perseus.

The role acts as the chief facilitator, delivery leader, and escalation point for the ART, enabling teams to deliver value predictably while ensuring strong planning cadence, dependency management and alignment with PMO governance and the OneDDC Agile Strategy and Operating model.

The RTE will work closely with Product Management, Scrum Masters, the PMO, and senior stakeholders to ensure consistent, high-quality Agile delivery at scale.

Core duties:

• Lead the M365 Agile Release Train by facilitating and coordinating delivery across multiple Agile teams within the ART, ensuring alignment to shared objectives, priorities, and outcomes, while acting as the central point of coordination across teams, suppliers, and stakeholders
• Lead PI Planning and establish a consistent delivery cadence (PI, sprint, reviews) that ensures clear objectives, alignment, and visibility of dependencies, risks, and impediments, while aligning ART delivery with PMO planning cycles and governance requirements
• Identify, track, and manage cross-team dependencies while proactively managing and escalating risks and impediments, ensuring transparency through programme and governance forums, and driving resolution of blockers across teams and stakeholders
• Coach and support Scrum Masters and teams to promote consistent Agile ways of working, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement, and enabling teams to become self-organising and outcome-focused
• Act as the bridge between Agile delivery and PMO structures, ensuring alignment with governance, reporting, and funding processes, supporting Agile-aligned reporting, and contributing to the evolution of the PMO towards Agile ways of working
• Monitor and improve flow metrics such as velocity, throughput, and lead time to enhance predictability, identify systemic bottlenecks, and drive continuous improvement while supporting incremental, value-driven delivery
• Ensure ART alignment with Digital Enablement Office standards, support integration with One DDC and Perseus transformation initiatives, promote consistency in roles and ways of working, and contribute to scaling Agile practices across Enterprise IT

Essential Skills:

• Proven experience in a Release Train Engineer, Programme Manager, or senior Agile delivery role
• Knowledge of M365 or digital workplace technologies
• Experience managing complex, multi-team delivery environments
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery, Scrum, and Kanban practices
• Experience in enterprise IT transformation programmes

The M365 Programme Team:

Implementing an Agile delivery, you will be playing an important role in shaping the environment that people work, improving efficiencies and collaboration across the business. You will be leading the delivery of M365 capability across the business which will be key to the way the business is working within the modern workplace

Why BAE Systems?

Here you’ll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work, this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best. You’ll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what’s most important to you and your family, support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle. In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make.

A place where everyone can thrive:

We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 28th May 2026

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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