ART Owner, Talent Growth & Performance in Tadworth

About The Opportunity

• Job Type: Permanent
• Application Deadline: 20 November 2026

Department: Employee Platforms & Services

Location: UK

Reports To: Value Stream Owner, Employee Experience Level Grade 7

We’re proud to have been helping our clients build better financial futures for over 50 years. How have we achieved this? By working together - and supporting each other - all over the world. So, join our team and feel like you’re part of something bigger.

About Your Team

As a business, we are constantly evolving how we work to stay ahead of what our clients need and to deliver on our Forward 8 ambitions. FIL Platforms represents the next step in that journey - bringing together Asset Management Delivery, Enterprise Technology Services, and delivery and change teams from across the business into a single integrated structure, designed for clarity, speed, and impact. That structure is organised around Platforms, and within each Platform a set of Value Streams that translate strategic priorities into funded, sequenced delivery. Within each Value Stream sits one or more ARTs - the teams of teams construct through which Epics are planned, sequenced and delivered. The ART is where the strategy becomes a committed delivery plan, and where the Squads doing the work are co-ordinated, unblocked, and held to a consistent standard. Within the People Platform, the Talent Growth & Performance ART is responsible for delivering the technology capabilities that enable Fidelity's Talent, Learning, Performance and Skills strategy. Working in partnership with HR, business and technology stakeholders, the ART delivers integrated solutions that enhance employee experience, accelerate workforce capability, support career development, and improve organisational performance.

About Your Role

An ART is FIL’s team-of-teams delivery construct - the layer that sits between the Value Stream and the Squads delivering the work. The ART owns the Epic horizon: translating Value Stream priorities into a sequenced, realistic plan that Squads can execute against, sprint by sprint. The ART Owner holds full accountability for that construct across delivery, operations, value and technology. A core part of the role is prioritisation - Epics are sequenced against value, capacity is managed within realistic boundaries, and trade-off decisions are made clearly and without ambiguity about what is in scope and what is not. The role also acts as the primary technology delivery partner for Talent, Learning and Performance stakeholders, ensuring business priorities are translated into clear delivery outcomes and roadmaps that maximise value while maintaining operational sustainability.

Day to day, this means:

• Facilitating Quarterly Planning - ensuring capacity is understood, value is prioritised, dependencies are mapped and risks are surfaced before Squads commit.
• Sequencing epics against value and making clear reprioritisation decisions to maintain Squad focus.
• Tracking delivery flow between quarterly cycles and acting early when velocity, quality or Squad health signals a problem.
• Maintaining cross-ART dependencies – resolving what can be resolved at ART level and escalating to the VS Owner where trade-offs require Initiative level decisions.
• Owning ART level RID - resolving what can be resolved and escalating what cannot.
• Ensuring Squads operate consistently within FIL’s agreed ways of working and delivery standards (defined under 1-COM).
• Ensuring compliance with FIL’s risk and control standards across the ART.
• Partnering with engineering leads on constraints, architecture decisions and tech debt at Epic level.
• Communicating progress, risks and trade-offs to the VS Owner clearly.
• Ultimately responsible for the performance of the work being delivered.

About You

The role suits someone who has run delivery at scale in a complex organisation like FIL - not just as a facilitator of Agile ceremonies but as someone who has genuinely owned the outcomes of a team-of-teams construct. You will be comfortable working in the space between the strategic priorities coming from a VS Owner and the squad level realities coming up from the Squads, with the credibility to challenge upwards and the trust to lead downward. Specifically, we are looking for:

• Proven experience as a Release Train Engineer, ART Owner or equivalent in a scaled Agile environment or similar complexity.
• A strong understanding of Quarterly Planning beyond facilitation - including capacity planning, dependency mapping and risk management at ART level.
• The ability to hold delivery accountable across multiple Squads.
• Enough technical fluency to engage credibly with engineering leads on constraints, debt and non-functional requirements at Epic level.
• Strong people leadership - ensuring Product Owners within the squad are being nurtured and developed.
• Clear, direct communication with both delivery teams and senior stakeholders, including the ability to deliver difficult messages without ambiguity.
• Experience partnering with HR, Talent, Learning or other business functions to deliver business-led technology outcomes.
• Knowledge of Talent, Learning, Performance or broader HR processes and technologies is essential.
• Experience with Workday Talent, Learning or related HR technology platforms is advantageous.

Behavioural expectations

• Brave: Prioritise learning and momentum over defending legacy commitments. Remove blockers and reset priorities when outcomes are at risk. Role‑model stopping or reshaping work that no longer delivers value.
• Bold: Set clear, outcome‑led direction and make decisive trade‑offs at ART level. Simplify governance, roles and interfaces to reduce duplication and escalation. Delegate real decision authority and protect teams’ ability to move at pace.
• Curious: Drive continuous prioritisation based on flow, outcomes and data. Expect evidence‑led conversations (not status updates) in the appropriate governance forums. Use delivery data to inform funding, sequencing and capacity decisions.
• Compassionate: Act as a visible advocate for client outcomes across the value stream. Build psychological safety so issues are raised early rather than escalated late. Balance pace with sustainability and colleague wellbeing.

Feel rewarded

For starters, we’ll offer you a comprehensive benefits package. We’ll value your wellbeing and support your development. And we’ll be as flexible as we can about where and when you work – finding a balance that works for all of us. It’s all part of our commitment to making you feel motivated by the work you do and happy to be part of our team.