Overview
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This hybrid role offers a great balance of home and office working. You’ll join your colleagues in your local office at least 2 days a week. CityFibre is the UK’s largest fibre-only network, and its only proven wholesale challenger, setting new standards for digital infrastructure.
Designed from scratch for the internet, the CityFibre network is greener, more reliable and ready for the future. The products we provide over it lead the market on speed, value and service, helping businesses to innovate and supporting communities and economic growth locally and nationally.
What does that mean for you? The opportunity to make internet connections (and daily life) a whole lot better, for a lot of people!
Role Purpose
Joining us as a Release Train Engineer. You’ll lead the delivery of complex IT programmes in a technically diverse environment, transitioning the IME programme—an ecosystem that blends IT and telecoms infrastructure—into long-term IT delivery. You’ll bring strong programme management expertise, with telco experience, and play a key role in establishing a new Agile Release Train from the ground up.
Responsibilities
* Leading complex IT programme delivery with a focus on integration between IT and telecoms systems
* Supporting the transition of the IME programme from external to internal delivery teams
* Driving the setup and launch of a new Agile Release Train to support long-term delivery
* Managing cross-team dependencies, risks, and stakeholder alignment across the programme
* Coaching Agile teams and leaders in SAFe and Lean-Agile practices
* Ensuring transparency and continuous improvement across the delivery lifecycle
What you’ll bring
* Hands-on experience delivering in telecoms or network-integrated environments
* A background in IT application development or platform/software engineering
* Strong understanding of Agile at scale, ideally with experience launching a new Release Train
* Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills
Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We’re a Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality. We’re endorsed by WORK180 and we’re a partner of Diversifying. We have pledged our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant and we’re a Disability Confident Employer. Working together with our Employee Networks, we’re wholly committed to ensuring that our people’s voices are heard, and that everyone feels a sense of belonging and pride to be a part of CityFibre. If you’d like to explore our culture and values, check out The CityFibre Way.
What you can expect from us
We want to offer you all the support you need to thrive inside and outside of work. This includes tools to grow your career with us, plus a comprehensive benefits package that you can adapt to your lifestyle. This includes 25 days annual leave, a birthday day off, a charity day, wellbeing and savings initiatives including private medical insurance, and supportive family-friendly and menopause policies.
Additional Information
We celebrate our differences and strive for belonging in our recruitment process. If you need support or reasonable adjustments during the application process, please email careers@cityfibre.com. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
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