Release Train Engineer (RTE)

Role Overview

The Release Train Engineer (RTE) is responsible for leading and coordinating Agile delivery across the M365 Agile Release Train (ART). This role ensures alignment with enterprise transformation initiatives, including OneDDC and Perseus, acting as the chief facilitator, delivery leader, and escalation point for the ART. The RTE enables teams to deliver value predictably by ensuring strong planning cadence, dependency management, and alignment with PMO governance and the OneDDC Agile Strategy and Operating model. This role collaborates 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 and Experience

• Proven experience in a Release Train Engineer, Programme Manager, or senior Agile delivery role.
• Leadership experience with a delivery focus and the ability to influence at all levels.
• Experience managing complex, multi-team delivery environments.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery, Scrum, and Kanban practices.
• Experience in enterprise IT transformation programmes.

About the M365 Programme Team

By implementing Agile delivery, you will play an important role in shaping the working environment, 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 operates within the modern workplace.

Why BAE Systems?

At BAE Systems, you will 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 where you can feel you belong and be proud of the difference you make.

A Place Where Everyone Can Thrive

We are 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.

Security and Export Control

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.