BUK Unsecured Consumer Risk Release Train Engineer

Join us at Barclays as an Unsecured Consumer Risk Release Train Engineer. At Barclays, we’re redefining how we deliver value at scale within our Unsecured Consumer Risk domain. We’re looking for a skilled and driven Release Train Engineer (RTE) to play a pivotal role in orchestrating complex delivery across multiple agile teams in a highly regulated environment. This is an opportunity to work at the heart of large-scale transformation, ensuring alignment, transparency, and continuous delivery across a critical area of the bank.

Critical skills and experience:

• Proven experience as a Release Train Engineer within a large-scale, regulated environment

• Exceptional communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills

• Strong ability to manage dependencies, risks, and impediments across multiple teams

Desirable skills and experience:

• Domain knowledge of Unsecured Consumer Credit Risk or Unsecured Consumer products within Barclays

• Strong understanding of technology delivery in data-heavy environments

• A change-agent mindset, with experience driving and embedding agile practices at scale

This role is based in Northampton.

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

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