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 us as a Release Train Engineer at Barclays where you will spearhead the evolution of our API First digital strategy, driving innovation and operational excellence. You will lead and enable coordinated delivery across multiple teams, aligning strategy, execution, dependencies, risk management, and continuous improvement to deliver robust, scalable, and secure digital solutions.
To be successful in this role, you must have:
- Extensive experience leading delivery across complex, multi-team technology programmes, with accountability for planning, execution, dependency management, risk resolution, and measurable outcomes.
- Demonstrated ability to lead an Agile Release Train or equivalent scaled delivery construct, aligning product, business, architecture, engineering, testing, operations, and control stakeholders around shared objectives.
- Advanced expertise in facilitating programme-level planning, including vision alignment, roadmap readiness, capacity and demand management, sequencing, dependency identification, and commitment setting.
- Proven ability to establish and govern effective delivery cadences, ensuring that planning, execution, demonstrations, retrospectives, and improvement activities translate into predictable outcomes.
- Strong leadership in identifying and removing systemic impediments, resolving cross-team conflicts, escalating material constraints, and enabling timely evidence-based decisions.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to communicate delivery health, options, risks, dependencies, and recommendations to senior business and technology audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to use delivery data and flow metrics to identify bottlenecks, improve predictability, and drive continuous improvement without compromising quality or control standards.
- Strong understanding of Agile, Lean, DevOps, and systems-thinking principles, with experience applying them pragmatically across large and geographically distributed teams.
- Proven experience partnering with Product Management and senior engineering leaders to maintain strategic alignment, prioritise outcomes, manage scope, and balance customer value with technical sustainability.
- Experience coordinating complex release activities across integrated systems, including readiness assessment, environment and test dependencies, business acceptance, operational readiness, and implementation governance.
- Strong risk and control mindset, with experience identifying delivery, operational, technology, data, security, and regulatory risks and ensuring appropriate ownership, mitigation, evidence, and escalation.
- Ability to build a culture of transparency, accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning across teams while maintaining focus on quality, pace, and customer outcomes.
- Advanced proficiency with delivery and collaboration tools such as JIRA and Confluence, including programme-level planning, dependency visualisation, risk tracking, governance reporting, and management information.
- Strong leadership capabilities, with experience coaching Scrum Masters, delivery leads, Product Owners, and teams in effective Agile practices and raising delivery maturity across the organisation.
- Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in a regulated financial services environment and manage delivery across business, technology, operations, and third-party stakeholders.
Some other highly valued skills may include:
- SAFe Release Train Engineer, SAFe Practice Consultant, PMI-ACP, Scrum Alliance certification, or an equivalent Agile delivery qualification.
- Experience leading API-first digital platforms, payments capabilities, external integrations, or other highly interconnected enterprise technology ecosystems.
- Knowledge of banking industry standards, regulations, and compliance requirements relevant to digital channels, APIs, payments, or corporate banking.
- Experience with value-stream management, portfolio alignment, lean budgeting, and translating strategic priorities into executable roadmaps.
- Understanding of software engineering, architecture, testing, environment management, and non-functional requirements sufficient to challenge delivery assumptions and surface technical dependencies.
- Experience enabling DevOps and CI/CD adoption, release automation, continuous testing, and incremental delivery across multiple teams.
- Knowledge of service management, operational resilience, release and change management, and production-readiness practices.
- Experience defining and using programme dashboards, flow measures, quality indicators, and outcome metrics to support leadership decisions.
- Strong facilitation and coaching capability, including large-scale planning events, problem-solving workshops, retrospectives, and leadership forums.
- Experience working with third-party suppliers, external partners, or federated teams with shared delivery accountabilities.
- Knowledge of organisational change, communications, training, and adoption planning for complex transformation initiatives.
- Experience improving delivery operating models, governance, ways of working, and team-of-teams collaboration at scale.
You may be assessed on 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.
The role is based out of Pune.