Job Description

Purpose

Facilitates and coordinates Agile Release Trains (ARTs) to ensure that multiple teams within a program are aligned and delivering value efficiently. To manage dependencies, remove impediments, and oversee the planning and execution of Program Increments. Foster collaboration across teams, ensures alignment with business objectives, and drives continuous improvement in large-scale Agile environments.

Accountabilities

• Facilitate Agile Planning and Events: Accountable to ensure readiness across scope, content and logistics to deliver value through facilitation of team of teams events.     
• Support Planning Execution: Monitor planning execution, facilitate periodic synchronization events, and support cross-team backlog refinement to ensure strategic alignment to business goals.     
• Coach Cross-Team Agile: Provide coaching to teams and Scrum Masters on cross-team agile principles, team events, and practices    
• Mitigate Risks: Identify and track cross-team dependencies and risks, ensuring mitigation to support delivery of outcomes. Accountable to remove blockers.    
• Stakeholder Management: Facilitate stakeholder collaboration (e.g., business stakeholders, product teams, vendors), build trust with stakeholders, and drive stakeholder alignment    
• Champion Ways of Working:  Champion Ways of Working and Agile culture, creating a safe and trusting environment for team members to share ideas and take appropriate risks    
• Coordinate Interlock and Dependency Management: Drive partnership and synchronization across teams to facilitate release management across stakeholder groups. Accountable for effective readiness and communication     
• Optimize Flow: Drive towards relentless improvement and ensure value delivery by monitoring delivery status, ensuring technology use and data quality, addressing bottlenecks, and serving as a point of escalation    
• Metrics and Reporting: Track and report key metrics to provide representation at required leadership and governance forums and to ensure continuous delivery improvement 

Join Barclays as a Release Train Engineer and play a pivotal role in driving large-scale agile delivery across multiple teams, ensuring aligned execution, predictable outcomes and successful delivery of strategic business objectives. You will act as the key facilitator across teams, helping to remove barriers, manage dependencies and create an environment where high-performing teams can thrive.

To be successful as a Release Train Engineer, you should have experience with:

• Lead and coordinate multiple teams to deliver shared outcomes : Builds alignment, provides direction, manages conflict and keeps teams focused on priorities

• Identify, manage and resolve risks, issues and dependencies : Anticipates obstacles, removes barriers and ensures work progresses smoothly across teams

• Agile / SAFe Expertise to plan, organise and facilitate large-scale delivery activities : Brings teams together to agree priorities, manage delivery commitments and achieve predictable outcomes

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Build strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels : Creates trust, gains support and maintains alignment between business and technology teams

• Use delivery data and performance measures to support systems thinking and decision-making : Uses insight and evidence to identify trends, improve delivery performance and support planning

• Drive continuous improvement across teams and ways of working: Encourages learning, identifies opportunities for improvement and supports positive change

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based in Knutsford / Northampton