Senior Release Train Engineer

Join Barclays as a Senior Release Train Engineer, leading delivery for a substantial team dedicated to providing corporate banking clients with near real time, enriched data to meet their sophisticated needs. You will oversee circa 20 Scrum teams across 3 squads and guide several Release Train Engineers, ensuring alignment, efficiency, and seamless delivery. This strategic role calls for a seasoned leader with the expertise to steer a large-scale Agile organisation. You will manage delivery across multiple corporate client projects within the high-profile Corporate Data Services technology towers, a focus area closely monitored by senior leadership. Accountable for driving successful outcomes, you will coordinate across teams, engage in technically detailed discussions, and ideally draw on a strong data engineering background with up to date experience of exploiting Artificial Intelligence accelerators to maximise impact. This is a high visibility opportunity to lead at scale, shape technology strategy and define the future of data engineering at Barclays.

To be successful in this role, you will need the following:

• Extensive experience delivering within both Agile and Waterfall frameworks, adapting to the specific needs of each project environment.
• Proven track record in delivering large, complex programmes, ensuring alignment with business objectives, timelines, and quality standards.
• Strong leadership and communication skills with the ability to influence across all levels including senior stakeholders, peers, and direct reports beyond formal reporting lines.
• Experience in the financial sector, ideally within banking or similar regulated environments.
• In-depth ETL expertise for both on-premise and cloud-based technologies.
• Up-to-date knowledge of AI and ML trends, including emerging applications and industry developments.
• High resilience and availability engineering experience, with familiarity in infrastructure engineering environments.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Solid background in Software Development, ideally with hands-on experience in Data Engineering.
• Extensive experience managing within complex governance frameworks, with particularly strong expertise in Risk Management.
• Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor teams with a focus on Agile frameworks and continuous improvement.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in the 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 successful candidate will be based in Glasgow.

Purpose of the role

To manage the efficient delivery of large-scale technical projects and capabilities across the bank and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to understand their needs and expectations throughout the software product lifecycle, adhering to agreed time, budget and quality requirements. 

Accountabilities

• Management of the delivery, resource allocation and improvement of complex technical project capabilities across the bank using Agile/Scrum methodologies for planning, stand-ups, demos, retrospectives and the execution of sprints.
• Collaboration with customers and business teams to manage and implement customer trails to support the proposal of technically feasible solutions, and effort and timeline expectations.
• Collaboration with software engineers, quality teams, product managers and other engineering teams to deliver high-quality products and features through the software project lifecycle aligned to the banks objectives, regulation and security policies.
• Identification, assessment, and mitigation of risks associated with technical projects to prepare the bank for potential challenges.
• Management of change requests and communication with stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
• Management of vendor relations involved in technical projects to ensure they deliver according to agreed terms.
• Stay abreast of the latest industry technology trends and technologies, to evaluate and adopt new approaches to improving deliver outcomes and to foster a culture of continuous learning, technical excellence and growth.

Vice President Expectations

• Contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
• Define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. Lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.