Release Train Engineer

Embark on a transformative journey as a Release Train Engineer. At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. Join us as a Release Train Engineer (RTE) at Barclays, where you’ll play a pivotal role in guiding our Agile Release Trains (ART) and driving the successful delivery of large-scale programs. You’ll bring Lean Agile experience, coaching capabilities, and remarkable facilitation skills to foster collaboration, remove impediments, and ensure smooth execution across teams. You’ll help shape the direction of our delivery organization by championing continuous improvement, orchestrating critical ART events, and supporting our teams in delivering high quality outcomes

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

• SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, and system thinking along with evaluating agility metrics to increase delivery efficiency

• Supporting ART events (PI Planning, Inspect & Adapt, ART Sync) and creating collaborative environments

• Working in an Agile environment as a Delivery Manager/RTE

• Project management skills and experience

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Technical background that helps the RTE understand the tasks in the development teams face

• Understanding of lean budgeting

• Additional certifications such as SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), SAFe Scrum Master (SSM), SAFe DevOps Practitioner, or professional coaching certifications

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, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is located in Whippany, NJ.

Minimum Salary: $155,000

Maximum Salary: $225,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.

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