Release Train Engineer

Project Role : Release Train Engineer

Project Role Description : Facilitates Agile Release Train events and processes, including communicating with stakeholders, escalating progress impediments, managing risk, and driving improvement. Works with Product/Solution Management, Product Owners, and other stakeholders to ensure strategy and execution alignment.

Must have skills : Agile Project Management

Good to have skills : NA
Minimum 5 year(s) of experience is required

Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education

Own and govern the end-to-end release lifecycle across telecom applications and platforms, from scope intake, planning, build readiness, testing, deployment, and Early Life Support (ELS).
Develop and maintain integrated release plans across multiple telecom domains, including BSS/OSS platforms, Managed Services (Oracle COTS, TIL, CMT), non-managed services, network-facing systems, and third-party vendor dependencies.
Manage cross-application, cross-vendor, and cross-functional dependencies to ensure seamless delivery of telecom business and technology releases.
Assess release impacts across customer journeys, billing, charging, CRM, order management, provisioning, assurance, and downstream operational systems.
Establish and enforce release governance, quality controls, and stage-gate criteria, ensuring all release readiness requirements are met before deployment.
Monitor release progress, delivery milestones, and overall release health through RAG reporting, proactively identifying risks and execution challenges.
Lead RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies) management, driving resolution and mitigation across internal delivery teams, managed service providers, and external suppliers.
Coordinate with business, operations, testing, infrastructure, and vendor teams to ensure successful release planning, deployment readiness, and production stability.
Drive release reviews, Go/No-Go decision-making processes, deployment governance, and stakeholder communications.
Escalate critical delivery risks, deployment issues, service impacts, and mitigation plans to programme leadership and executive stakeholders.
Oversee production deployments and hypercare support, ensuring smooth transition into Early Life Support and achievement of service-level commitments.
Promote continuous improvement of release management processes, deployment automation, governance frameworks, and operational excellence across telecom transformation programmes.
Key Responsibility Summary:
Lead and govern complex telecom releases by coordinating multiple delivery teams, vendors, OSS/BSS platforms, and business stakeholders to ensure predictable, high-quality, and low-risk deployments that support critical customer, operational, and business outcomes.



Qualification 15 years full time education