Release Train Engineer @MMC Tech

A **Product Delivery Engineering Leader** is responsible for overseeing Pods and ensuring the successful delivery of working software to production. This role requires a leader with experience in Agile transformation, program management, and technical understanding to support Agile credentials.

The ideal candidate will have a broad technical understanding, excellent communication skills, and experience in working with distributed teams. They will be responsible for ensuring the Pod is resourced with skilled individuals, developing and delivering business-focused Missions, and driving out systems and processes that help define and report on important metrics.

The **Agile at Scale Delivery Methodology** is revolutionizing IT teams by organizing them into cohorts of Pods and Squads. As a leader in this role, you will be responsible for overseeing one or more Pods and ensuring the successful delivery of working software to production.

The main purpose of Pods is to develop and deliver business-focused Missions through the creation of innovative Products and services:

• Run the software delivery Pod while ensuring there are smooth and efficient processes for getting software through from requirements to working in production;
• Focus on value creation, growth, and serving customers;
• Responsible for ensuring your pod is resourced with skilled individuals working with internal and external resource provider teams;
• End-to-end Delivery of a group of software Products;
• Makes outcomes that lead to project success, and work with Product Owner and Business Analysts to help project teams prioritize and groom backlog in order to deliver an Alpha early, then continue to deliver value often throughout the project lifecycle to staging and production environments;
• Be a leader for between 5-8 squads: around 30 – 100 people;
• Have an Enterprise mindset able to foster collaboration, break down silos, identify and work to remove blockers;
• Be an Agile Expert familiar with the processes and practices required for successful and sustainable delivery;
• Have a solid understanding of Software Development, Architecture, Test Engineering, and Security best practices in an Agile environment;
• Be responsible for the holistic costs of the pod; its resources, infrastructure, and licensing;
• Pods support the full lifecycle of a product, and we operate on the philosophy that the work comes to the team. You will need to consider tech debt, obsolescence, security, and modernization;
• Ensure our Agile at Scale governance and ceremonies are in place and effective;
• Working with the wider team to plan complex product releases;
• Ensure our standard metrics are visible and actively being used to drive drawing conclusions;
• Own the Continuous Improvement backlog for the Pod. This is the key mechanism by which we deliver improvements for time to market, efficiency, and quality;
• Provide coaching and support to your pod and be responsible for line management of squad leaders;
• In addition to your day-to-day Pod leadership activities, you will be assigned 1 or more workstream leadership opportunities that will deliver cross-functional benefits to our organization;
• Build and sustain team culture;

The company is a **fast-growing, innovative firm** that offers a **fail-friendly environment** that encourages learning and initiative. The company is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections, and professional development benefits of working together in the office.

As a company, we are dedicated to **changing the world of benefits**. We are a cornerstone benefits technology product in the Marsh McLennan, (MMC), Tech portfolio. MMC is a global professional services firm, headquartered in New York City with businesses in insurance brokerage, risk management, reinsurance services, talent management, investment advisory, and management consulting. The regional hub will contain teams of Application Developers, Business Analysts, Project/Program Managers, and other technology roles that require time zone overlap with clients in EMEA.

Our benefits and culture include:

• An opportunity to work in a fast-growing, innovative company with lots of room for progression and career growth;
• A fail-friendly environment that encourages learning and initiative;
• A yearly budget and the opportunity to build your flexible benefits package (up to 20% of your annual salary);
• 30+ days off (25 legal days off, 1 extra day off on your birthday, public holiday replacement days, extra buy/sell from your benefits budget);
• Performance Bonus scheme;
• Matching charity contributions, charity days off, and the Pay it Forward charity challenge;
• Core benefits - Pension, Life and Medical Insurance, Meal Vouchers, Travel Insurance;
• We champion flexible working, and our mission is to help you find YOUR work-life balance, whether that's standard working, flextime working, or working from home.