Tech Delivery Lead

Join us at Barclays as a Technical Delivery Lead. At Barclays, we're transforming the future of Finance Technology through strategic platforms that support critical Banking Book and accounting capabilities. We're looking for an experienced Technical Delivery Lead to play a pivotal role in our Banking Book Subledger transformation programme, combining strong hands-on engineering experience with technical leadership across complex, large-scale technology delivery.

To be successful as a Technical Delivery Lead, you should have experience with:

• A strong hands-on software engineering background, with experience building and delivering complex enterprise applications.
• Strong technical knowledge of Java, Spring Boot, microservices, APIs, distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.
• Translating business and technical requirements into clear engineering solutions, turning complex requirements into structured and actionable work for development teams.
• Providing technical direction and structure to engineers, supporting them through solution design, development and implementation.
• Operating as a hands-on technical leader and individual contributor, comfortable getting into the technical detail and solving complex engineering problems rather than solely coordinating delivery.
• Mentoring and guiding engineers, including supporting junior team members and driving strong engineering standards and ways of working.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience leading delivery across multiple engineering teams, managing dependencies, risks and blockers in Agile or SAFe environments.
• Experience within Banking Book, Treasury, Subledger, General Ledger or broader Finance Technology environments.
• Strong understanding of DevOps and modern engineering practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, release management and production readiness.

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 is based in Northampton.

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