Solution Train Engineer - Payments - Contract - URGENT!

Solution Train Engineer - Payments - Contract - URGENT! (inside IR35)

My client, a leading payments giant is looking other hire, Solution Train Engineer - Large Programme Delivery

About the role:

• As a Solution Train Engineer, you'll be at the heart of our agile delivery engine-driving coordination across multiple domains, ensuring dependencies are addressed, and enabling smooth, timely releases. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, excels at cross-functional collaboration, and is passionate about delivering high-quality solutions at scale.

• You'll be the POC that connects development, QA, DevOps, and product teams-ensuring alignment, transparency, and readiness from planning through production

What you'll do:

• Lead the end-to-end technical delivery of a large complex solution involving multiple ARTs, domains, and teams. Coordinate efforts to ensure timely, high-quality outcomes that meets stakeholder expectations.

• Drive collaboration across various ARTs, Technology Domains, and Teams, by aligning Planning Interval (PI) goals, managing inter-team dependencies, and tracking milestone progress.

• Proactively address and resolve conflicts among ARTs, Domains, and Teams, and escalate risks when necessary. Maintain visibility through a centralized program board or Jira dashboards, and a comprehensive dependency map.

• Provide hands-on coaching and escalate issues to maintain delivery momentum and meet commitments.

• Drive alignment across Project Management, Development, QA, DevOps, and Product teams to ensure delivery timelines are met and testing efforts are coordinated effectively.

• Proactively identify, monitor, and resolve cross-team dependencies. Escalate critical blockers and facilitate timely resolutions to maintain delivery momentum.

• Oversee code/configuration readiness and ensure all solution components adhere to quality standards and are delivered according to schedule.

• Production readiness validation activities, including smoke test execution and readiness assessments to guarantee smooth and reliable production deployments.

• Reporting & communication - deliver consistent and transparent updates to stakeholders, including risk evaluations and key testing metrics.

• Recommend and drive continuous improvement process optimizations that enhance delivery efficiency, predictability, and overall operational performance.

Experience you'll need to have:

• Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile methodologies, and Release management process including CI/CD pipelines

• Experience working in a scaled agile environment (eg, SAFe, LeSS) or in large enterprise delivery models

• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and deliverables in a dynamic environment

• Excellent coordination and communication skills across technical and non-technical teams

• Hands-on experience with tools like JIRA, Confluence, GitLab, and observability/monitoring platforms

• Familiarity with production readiness checklists and Live proving processes

Experience that would be great to have:

• SAFe certification

• Exposure to scaled agile frameworks (eg, SAFe) or large enterprise delivery models

• Knowledge of Release process, service-level objectives (SLOs), observability, and incident response workflows

• Certification in Agile, Scrum, or Release Train Engineering

• Minimum of 5 years of strong delivery experience?