Barclays
Release Train Engineer
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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.
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Join us at Barclays as a Senior Release Train Engineer, where you'll lead and coordinate Agile Release Trains (ARTs), ensuring teams are aligned, risks and dependencies are managed, and value is delivered efficiently. You'll foster collaboration across stakeholders, champion Agile ways of working, drive continuous improvement, and support successful planning, execution, and release delivery in a large-scale Agile environment.
Requirements
To be successful as a Senior Release Train Engineer, you should have experience with:
- Proven experience delivering complex technology outcomes as a Project Manager, Programme Manager, Technical Delivery Manager, or Change Manager.
- Solid track record of driving continuous process improvement.
- Experience delivering change within Agile frameworks such as SAFe, Kanban, or Scrum.
- Experience managing technical teams or operating within a matrix management environment.
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Highly Valued Skills
- AWS certifications and/or proven AWS delivery experience.
- Solid stakeholder management skills, including engagement with Director-level and above stakeholders.
- Relevant RTE or delivery certifications such as PRINCE2 or PMP.
Assessment
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.
Location
This role can be based in Glasgow or Knutsford.
Our Work Experience
Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.
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