Release Train Engineer

Barclays UK; Northampton; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services organization is seeking a Release Train Engineer in Northampton. The successful candidate will facilitate and coordinate Agile Release Trains across teams, manage dependencies, and ensure strategic alignment to business objectives. Ideal applicants will have experience in Scrum practices, strong communication skills, and familiarity with finance or retail banking. This role offers opportunities for continuous professional development and a chance to be part of a dynamic Agile environment.

Qualifications

• Experience hosting Scrum ceremonies and facilitating Agile teams.
• Ability to manage dependencies and remove impediments.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate Agile Planning and Events to deliver value.
• Monitor planning execution and support strategy alignment.
• Coach teams and Scrum Masters on Agile principles.
• Identify and mitigate cross-team risks and dependencies.
• Champion Agile culture and create a safe environment.

Skills

Agile Ways of Working via Scrum

Planning execution across multiple Scrum teams

Communication skills

Advanced understanding of Jira

Awareness of Data Warehousing projects

Experience in finance/retail banking

Job description

Join us as a Release Train Engineer, where you'll be facilitating and coordinating Agile Release Trains to multiple feature teams within the Product Domain. You'll also benefit from being part of a vast professional network, collaborating with industry mentors and experts.

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

• Agile Ways of Working via Scrum including hands-on experience of hosting Scrum Ceremonies

• Experience at planning execution across multiple Scrum teams (up to 10)

• Communication skills including presenting metrics and stakeholder management

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Advanced understanding of Jira

• Awareness of Data Warehousing projects

• Experience of working within finance/retail banking domain

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 will be based in our Northampton or Knutsford office.

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