Solution Train Engineer

Overview

As a Solution Train Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in enabling successful agile delivery across multiple domains, ensuring effective coordination, dependency management, and the timely delivery of high-quality releases. This role is well suited to an individual who excels in a fast-paced environment, thrives on cross-functional collaboration, and is committed to delivering scalable, business-critical solutions.

Acting as a central point of coordination across Development, QA, Dev Ops, and Product teams, you will drive alignment, transparency, and delivery readiness throughout the full solution lifecycle - from planning and execution through to production release.

• Lead the full end-to-end technical delivery of a large and complex solution spanning multiple ARTs, domains, and teams. Coordinate all contributing efforts to deliver high-quality outcomes on time and in line with stakeholder expectations.
• Foster collaboration across ARTs, technology domains, and teams by aligning Planning Interval (PI) objectives, managing inter-team dependencies, and monitoring progress against key milestones.
• Identify and address conflicts across ARTs, domains, and teams proactively, escalating risks where required. Ensure clear visibility through centralised programme boards, Jira dashboards, and detailed dependency tracking.
• Provide practical guidance and support while escalating issues where necessary to maintain delivery pace and fulfil commitments.
• Promote alignment across Project Management, Development, QA, Dev Ops, and Product teams to ensure timelines are achieved and testing activities are effectively coordinated.
• Anticipate, track, and resolve cross-team dependencies, escalating critical blockers and facilitating timely resolutions to keep delivery on track.
• Oversee code and configuration readiness, ensuring all solution components meet quality standards and are delivered in accordance with agreed schedules.
• Manage production readiness activities, including smoke testing and readiness assessments, to support stable and seamless production deployments.
• Deliver clear and consistent reporting to stakeholders, including risk assessments, delivery updates, and key testing metrics.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and drive process enhancements that increase delivery efficiency, predictability, and overall operational effectiveness.

• SAFe certification
• Certification in Agile, Scrum, or Release Train Engineering

• Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile methodologies, and Release management process including CI/CD pipelines
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and deliverables in a dynamic environment
• Excellent coordination and communication skills across technical and non-technical teams
• Familiarity with production readiness checklists and Live proving processes

• Exposure to scaled agile frameworks (e.g., SAFe) or large enterprise delivery models
• Knowledge of Release process, service-level objectives (SLOs), observability, and incident response workflows

• Experience working in a scaled agile environment (e.g., SAFe, LeSS) or in large enterprise delivery models
• Hands‑on experience with tools like JIRA, Confluence, Git Lab, and observability/monitoring platforms
• Strong delivery experience

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
• Competitive company benefits
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo

• As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
  • Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
  • Communicating and promoting vacancies
  • Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
  • Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
  • Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”.

We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive.