Release Train Engineer

Join Barclays as a Release Train Engineer, we’re looking for a delivery leader who will take full ownership of executing outcomes and objectives and key results are aligned to the Agile Release Train (ART). This is a practical role focused on driving delivery, optimising flow, and enabling measurable, incremental business value at scale.

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

• Own end-to-end ART delivery – Take accountability for planning, execution, and release readiness across Program Increments, ensuring commitments are met and value is delivered.

• Optimise flow and remove impediments – Proactively manage dependencies, risks, and blockers across teams to maintain momentum and enable predictable, high-quality delivery into production.

• Ensure release readiness – Lead compliance checks and coordinate deployments to guarantee a smooth path to production.

• Stakeholder alignment and prioritisation – Mediate competing priorities and maintain strategic focus across teams and business stakeholders.

Other highly valued skills include:

• Data-driven delivery leadership – Apply metrics such as predictability, velocity, and flow to guide improvements and make informed decisions.

• Agile tooling expertise – Advanced experience with Jira to manage ART-level work and provide transparency across the train.

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.

This role has the option to work from the following locations: Knutsford or London, Luke Street.

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