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Date live:
Feb. 27, 2026
Business Area:
Corporate Digital Banking
Area of Expertise:
Change
Reference Code:
JR-0000087830
Contract:
Permanent
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Explore locationJoin us as aRelease Train Engineerat Barclays where you will orchestrate the delivery of complex, cross functional change across multiple squads and platforms. You will act as the servant leader and delivery enabler for our Agile Release Train (ART), ensuring alignment, flow, governance adherence, and predictable value delivery.You will collaborate closely with Product, Technology, Operations, and Transformation partners to drive execution excellence in line with the Barclays Change Efficiency Product Playbook.
To be successful as a Release Train Engineer, you should have experience with:
Leading Agile Release Trains (ARTs)and facilitating key cadence events (PI Planning, ART Syncs, System Demos, Inspect & Adapt), as defined in the Playbook’s Ways of Working Framework.
Driving flow & delivery predictabilityacross multiple squads/teams of teams, ensuring adherence to WoW roles, artefacts, and cadences.
Managing dependencies, risks, and impedimentsacross squads and platforms, ensuring alignment with enterprise governance and Change frameworks.
Partnering with Product Owners/Managers and Architectsto ensure backlog readiness,prioritisation, and alignment to strategic outcomes. (Also referenced across WoW/role description sections.)
Some other highly valued skills may include:
Experience with Quality & Reporting frameworks, including dashboarding, metrics, Jira hygiene, capacity planning, and story point management
Coaching teams and leaders on agile principles, WoW adoption, ceremonies, maturity uplift, and continuous improvement.
Knowledge ofDatagovernance forums, risk processes, and required artefacts across delivery stages
Experience aligning with transformation teams, including enterprise-level cadence alignment, crosstrain collaboration, and strategic program execution.
You may be assessed on 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.
The role is based out ofPune.
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
