Release Train Engineer – VP

Barclays; Whippany (NJ); On-site; USD 155,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

401(k)

Life insurance

Paid leave

Job summary

Barclays is seeking a VP-level Release Train Engineer to drive Agile delivery at scale across multiple squads and journey groups. You will oversee PI planning and execution, manage dependencies in Jira, and ensure alignment with business outcomes through collaboration and continuous improvement.

The role requires strong coaching across teams, risk mitigation, and stakeholder engagement to deliver value in large-scale Agile environments.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering across multiple Agile teams and PI planning.
• Coach teams on Agile principles and best practices.
• Identify and mitigate delivery risks to ensure quality releases.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate Agile Planning and events for multiple teams across the program.
• Monitor planning execution and refine backlogs for strategic alignment.
• Coach Scrum Masters and teams on cross-team agile practices.
• Identify cross-team risks and dependencies, driving mitigation and blockers removal.
• Coordinate stakeholder collaboration and manage interlock across teams.

Skills

Agile delivery

Backlog management

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Cross-team coaching

Tools

Jira

Job description

Embark on a transformative journey as a Release Train Engineer – VP. At Barclays, our vision is clear — to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will drive Agile delivery at scale, enabling strategic change across multiple squads and helping shape the future of banking through innovation and collaboration. The Release Train Engineer, RTE oversees the planning and execution of Planning Increments, PIs through the guidance of multiple Squads within a Journey Group / Platform. The RTE manages dependencies, removes impediments, and ensures alignment and delivery to business outcomes. RTEs foster collaboration across Squads, ensure alignment with business targets, and drive continuous improvement in large-scale Agile environments.

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

• Supporting the delivery activities across multiple Agile teams, ensuring successful execution of Planning Increments (PIs) and achievement of business outcomes
• Coaching and mentoring cross-functional teams on Agile principles, fostering consistency, collaboration, and adherence to best practices
• Identifying, assessing, and mitigating delivery risks to ensure smooth, predictable, and high-quality releases
• Facilitating and coordinating stakeholder engagement to socialize, validate, and align feature requirements with downstream teams
• Guiding feature and story planning, including slotting, dependency identification and tracking in RAID and Jira, while driving timely resolution of cross-team dependencies

Other Highly Valued Skills Include

• Agile delivery, tools, and backlog management
• Data-driven agreement-making and metrics reporting
• Financial and risk management

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, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is located in Whippany, NJ or Wilmington, DE office.

Salary In Whippany, NJ Minimum Salary: $155,000

Maximum Salary: $225,000

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.

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