Release Train Engineer

THE ROLE

• Lead the Agile Release Train for multiple maintenance tracks across core wealth and enterprise banking (corporate onboarding, bulk payments, cash management).
  
• Facilitate PI (Program Increment) Planning, system demos, retrospectives, and ART syncs.
  
• Coordinate with product owners, architects, support, and infrastructure teams to align delivery with maintenance priorities, SLAs, and compliance timelines.
  
• Manage release calendars, production deployment readiness, and post-release monitoring.
  
• Identify and mitigate risks, manage dependencies, and resolve cross-team delivery impediments.
  
• Support the upkeep and modernization of legacy systems by driving continuous delivery of enhancements, patches, and fixes.
  
• Ensure quality assurance, change management, and rollback strategies are in place for all releases.
  
• Promote lean-agile practices, metrics-driven tracking, and relentless improvement across maintenance streams.
  
• Serve as the escalation point for incidents related to release planning or production support conflicts.

• 15+ years of experience in enterprise IT, including 5+ years in Agile/SAFe environments and release management.
  
• Strong domain expertise in Wealth and Enterprise banking platforms, including core banking, digital channels, payment systems, and corporate banking tools.
  
• Proven experience managing large-scale system maintenance and release cycles across distributed teams.
  
• Excellent understanding of SDLC, CI/CD pipelines, production support, and system reliability practices.
  
• Skilled in managing PI planning, backlog refinement, and program boards using tools like Jira, Rally, or Azure DevOps.
  
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills across business, development, QA, and support teams.
  
• Familiarity with Java/Spring systems, microservices, and integrations with CBS, CRM, and third-party fintech APIs.
  
• Knowledge of banking regulations (RBI, PCI-DSS, etc.) and change control processes.

• SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE) or SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) certification.
  
• Experience with ITIL-based incident and problem management.
  
• Exposure to cloud migration or cloud-native platforms.
  
• Understanding of InfoSec and secure DevOps in regulated environments.

• We

  care

  and listen to each other, our clients, partners and the communities we serve
• We

  commit

  with determination and persistence to make things happen
• We

  collaborate

  within Temenos and across a wider partner ecosystem
• We

  challenge

  the status quo, try to look at things differently and drive change

• Maternity leave:

  Transition back with 3 days per week in the first month and 4 days per week in the second month

• Civil Partnership:

  1 week of paid leave if youre getting married. This covers marriages and civil partnerships, including same sex/civil partnership

• Family care:

  4 weeks of paid family care leave

• Recharge days:

  4 days per year to use when you need to physically or mentally needed to recharge

• Study leave:

  2 weeks of paid leave each year for study or personal development