Site Reliability and DevOps - Senior Release Train Engineer
Holborn, London, UK Req #20067
15 July 2025
The Senior RTE is responsible for leading Agile Release Trains (ARTs) for complex digital programmes, ensuring alignment between business priorities and technical execution, enabling high-quality and timely delivery of value. This role is pivotal in fostering a culture of continuous improvement, Agile maturity and cross-team collaboration.
Role: Senior Release Train Engineer
Location: Holborn, London. Hybrid way of working with a minimum of 3 days a week in the office.
Why you’ll love it here:
* Up to 10% matched pension
* Discounts: Up to 60% discount on Premier Inn stays and 25% discount on our Restaurant brands
* Annual Incentive of up to 30%
* Company Share save Scheme: Share in Whitbread’s continued success.
* Responsible for driving ART Retrospectives and Continuous Improvement by promoting lean-agile thinking and innovation
* Leading Programme Increment (PI) Planning, ART Syncs, Scrum of Scrums, System Demos, Inspect and Adapt workshop
* Track and report on PI execution, Feature delivery and ART-level KPIs.
* Maintain and evolve Jira boards and Dashboards to support planning, tracking and reporting
* Coach, mentor Scrum Masters and Team leads to achieve Delivery excellence through Workshops, Training session
What we need:
* Proven experience of working in Agile delivery roles e.g. Scrum Master, Programme Manager, Agile Coach or similar
* Previous experience working within an RTE role or similar
* Strong understanding of of SAFe, Agile, Scrum, Kanban and Lean principle
* Understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, software development lifecycle and Release Management processes
* Strong experience with Jira dashboards
* Strong communication skills, with the ability to communicate with different level of stakeholders throughout the business
Be part of the dynamic Information Technology/Engineering Team
Whitbread are the owners of Premier Inn, and some of the UK’s most loved restaurants. Our Technology team builds products and services that are used by around 40,000 employees and our guests. Everything from an eCommerce website that handles £3 billion in transactions per year, applications that are scalable across our 1,200 hotel and restaurants, devices that enable our teams and guests to have a seamless experience, all whilst keeping data secure.
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