{"id":3337184,"url":"https://alion.io/job/gsk-senior-principal-rte","title":"Senior Principal - RTE","company":{"id":6649,"name":"GSK","domain":"gsk.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/gsk","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":83,"open_postings":48,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.854,"repost_share":0.021,"time_to_fill_p50_days":17,"computed_at":"2026-10-28T05:59:10Z"}},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Bengaluru, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":24000,"max_usd":57000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_cell","sample_n":15},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"ITIL","optional":false},{"name":"Scrum","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":true},{"name":"Azure DevOps","optional":true},{"name":"Configuration Management","optional":true},{"name":"Jira","optional":true},{"name":"Zero Trust","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-26T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-26","last_verified_at":"2026-10-28T12:14:59Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"Business Introduction\nGSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally. Our Ahead Together strategy is centred on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems.\nOur diverse portfolio consists of vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines.\nThrough continuous innovation and a dedicated focus on scientific and technical excellence, we strive to develop and launch new, groundbreaking treatments that address critical health challenges.\nJob Purpose\nThe Release Train Engineer is a servant leader and delivery coach for the Agile Release Train delivering GSK's network and connectivity platforms, applying SAFe practices within GSK's Technology operating model to coordinate the flow of value across the teams building and running those platforms. Operating consistently with the BCG platform operating model, the role treats the platform as a product delivered by a durable, cross-functional team, and is accountable for facilitating Programme Increment planning, coordinating dependencies and risks across teams, and driving predictable, high quality delivery through Agile ceremonies, flow metrics and continuous improvement.\nKey Responsibilities\nFacilitate Programme Increment planning and Agile Release Train execution\nPlan, prepare and facilitate PI Planning, System Demos, Inspect and Adapt workshops and other Agile Release Train events for the platform's teams.\nCoordinate Scrum of Scrums, ART sync and cross-team ceremonies to maintain alignment on scope, sequencing and delivery against the Programme Increment.\nBuild and maintain the ART's Programme Board, tracking major milestones, cross-team dependencies and feature delivery against the Programme Increment.\nSupport Product Management and Product Owners in refining the Programme Backlog and preparing content for Planning Interval events.\nManage dependencies, risks and impediments across the train\nIdentify, track and resolve cross-team and cross-platform dependencies and risks using ROAM (Resolved, Owned, Accepted, Mitigated).\nEscalate and remove impediments to flow that individual teams cannot resolve themselves, including supplier, platform or portfolio level blockers.\nCoordinate with other Release Train Engineers, Solution Train Engineers and Platform Managers to sequence work across dependent platforms and domains.\nDrive flow, predictability and continuous improvement\nTrack and report flow metrics including velocity, programme predictability, cycle time and quality trends, and use them to drive improvement actions.\nCoach teams, Scrum Masters and Product Owners in Lean-Agile and SAFe practices, building local capability rather than acting as a single point of control.\nPartner with Portfolio, Solution and Platform stakeholders to continuously improve the ART's ways of working, tooling and use of automation or AI-assisted delivery practices.\nKey Relationships/Customers\nBusiness Stakeholders\nProduct teams and business technology groups whose network or platform capability delivery depends on a predictable, well coordinated Agile Release Train.\nBusiness service owners and key users where delivery sequencing, dependencies or timelines affect service quality or adoption.\nBusiness service owners and key users where engineering quality, resilience or change risk directly affects business outcomes.\nTech Stakeholders\nProduct Owners, Scrum Masters/Team Coaches, Principal Engineers and Platform Managers for the teams on the train.\nSolution Train Engineers, other Release Train Engineers, Domain Portfolio Managers and Platform Architects across dependent platforms.\nEnterprise Architecture, Cyber Security, Reliability Engineering and Operations Excellence where dependencies or risks touch their domains.\nReliability Engineering, Operations Excellence, Enterprise Architecture, Cyber Security, Data Privacy, Quality and Compliance teams.\nModern Engineering, DevSecOps, Observability, Automation Acceleration Hub, Automation Acceleration team and Agile/Delivery governance teams.\nOther\nStrategic partners, managed service providers, system integrators and specialist suppliers whose teams participate in or are coordinated by the Agile Release Train.\nProfessional Qualifications\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience delivering Agile technology programmes.\nSAFe Release Train Engineer (or Advanced RTE) certification, or a recognised equivalent, is expected.\nAdditional Agile certifications such as SAFe Program Consultant, Certified ScrumMaster or PMI-ACP support the role but do not replace demonstrated RTE experience.\nRelevant examples may include SAFe, Scrum/Agile, ITIL, Lean Portfolio Management or programme and change management qualifications.\nFor regulated or GxP-impacting platforms, awareness of applicable quality, validation and compliance expectations is desirable.\nArea of Specialisation\nDeep knowledge of SAFe practices, including Programme Increment planning, System Demos, Inspect and Adapt, ART sync and flow based metrics.\nKnowledge of AI-enabled delivery tooling, including responsible use for backlog analysis, reporting and dependency tracking.\nUnderstanding of platform operating models and product-aligned delivery across engineering teams.\nRelated Experience Required\nSignificant experience facilitating Agile Release Trains or large scale agile delivery using the SAFe framework.\nProven experience coordinating dependencies, risks and impediments across multiple teams, suppliers or platforms.\nExperience facilitating Programme Increment planning, System Demos, Inspect and Adapt and other core Agile Release Train events.\nExperience using flow metrics such as velocity, predictability and cycle time to drive delivery improvement.\nExperience coaching teams, Scrum Masters and Product Owners in Lean-Agile practices without acting as a single point of control.\nSignificant experience coordinating Agile delivery across multiple technology teams or a release train.\nStrong capability in Planning Interval facilitation, dependency and risk management, coaching, and flow metrics.\nEvidence of improving delivery predictability, cycle time, quality or stakeholder alignment.\nDesirable Requirements\nRelease Train Engineer qualification, such as SAFe Release Train Engineer.\nExperience coordinating network or infrastructure transformation delivery.\nExperience with Jira, Azure DevOps, portfolio tools or AI assisted delivery practices.\nSkills/Background\nStrong facilitation and conflict-resolution skills, able to align teams and stakeholders without formal authority.\nAbility to interpret flow, quality and delivery metrics and convert insight into improvement actions.\nSkilled at managing risk and dependency logs (ROAM) and escalating effectively when blockers cannot be resolved at team level.\nStrong stakeholder management across business, technology and supplier organisations.\nCommitment to continuous learning, AI fluency and adoption of modern Agile and delivery tooling.\n Skills\nAgile Coaching, Arts Facilitation, Automation Technology, Cloud Based Services, Computer Programming, Configuration Management (CM), Defense Management, Flow Meter, IP Address Management (IPAM), Load Balancers, Network Design, Operational Technology (OT), Packet Switching, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Security Engineering, Software-Defined Networking Wide Area Network (SD-WAN), System Monitors, Wireless System Design, Zero Trust ArchitectureWhy GSK?\nUniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.\nGSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases - to impact health at scale.\nPeople and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.\nInclusion at GSK:\nAs an employer committed to Inclusion, we encourage you to reach out if you need any adjustments during the recruitment process.\nPlease contact our Recruitment Team at  to discuss your needs.\nImportant notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies\nGSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. 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