Senior Release Train Engineer VP – Digital Assets

2755 Barclays Services Corpor; Whippany (NJ); On-site; USD 155,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays in Whippany, NJ is seeking a Senior Release Train Engineer VP – Digital Assets to lead complex, multi-team delivery programs in a regulated financial services environment. You will coordinate engineering, product, architecture, risk, legal, controls, compliance, and operations to maintain delivery momentum and strategic initiatives.

You will drive release planning, dependency management, and governance, coach Scrum Masters and teams, identify risks, remove blockers, and report progress

Qualifications

• Lead complex technology delivery programs across multiple agile teams within regulated environments.
• Expertise in Agile delivery, dependency management, release planning, governance.
• Be highly effective at driving alignment across engineering, product, architecture, risk, legal, controls, compliance, operations, and business teams.
• Identify execution risks, remove blockers, resolve dependencies, and maintain delivery momentum across multiple workstreams.
• Possess strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including preparing executive updates, governance materials, and leadership reporting.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate Agile Planning and Events to ensure readiness and delivery value.
• Monitor planning execution, synchronize cross-team events, support backlog refinement and alignment to business goals.
• Coach cross-team Agile practices and Scrum Masters in delivery governance.
• Identify and mitigate cross-team risks and blockers; maintain delivery momentum.
• Coordinate interlock and dependency management for release readiness and stakeholder communication.
• Track key metrics and provide leadership updates to governance forums.

Skills

Agile delivery

Dependency management

Release planning

Executive reporting

Tools

AI-enabled planning tools

Job description

Job Description 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.

Embark on a transformative journey as a Senior Release Train Engineer VP – Digital Assets. At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will join a team working at the ground floor of a 0-to-1 build. You will drive the execution and delivery of Barclays' Digital Assets Platform, coordinating engineering, product, architecture, operations, risk, legal, controls, compliance, and business stakeholders. In this role, you will be responsible for maintaining delivery momentum, managing dependencies, removing blockers, and ensuring strategic initiatives such as institutional wallets, tokenized deposits, stablecoins, and digital asset infrastructure are delivered safely, efficiently, and in line with regulatory expectations. If you are a delivery leader who can align teams, manage dependencies, and drive execution across a complex digital asset platform while balancing engineering priorities, business objectives, and regulatory requirements this is an ideal role for you.

To be successful as a Senior Release Train Engineer VP – Digital Assets, you should:

• Bring proven experience leading complex technology delivery programs across multiple agile teams within regulated environments
• Demonstrate expertise in Agile delivery, dependency management, release planning, execution tracking, and delivery governance
• Be highly effective at driving alignment across engineering, product, architecture, risk, legal, controls, compliance, operations, and business teams
• Be comfortable identifying execution risks, removing blockers, resolving dependencies, and maintaining delivery momentum across multiple workstreams
• Possess considerable communication and stakeholder management skills, including preparing executive updates, governance materials, and leadership reporting

Other highly valued skills include:

• Understanding of digital asset platforms, institutional wallets, tokenized deposits, stablecoins, blockchain infrastructure, and digital asset settlement
• Experience managing vendor onboarding, third-party dependencies, procurement, and technology delivery partners
• Knowledge of technology risk, operational resilience, regulatory controls, and audit readiness within financial services
• Experience with workforce planning, budget tracking, delivery metrics, and program operating models
• Confidence using AI-enabled productivity and planning tools to improve reporting, coordination, decision-making, and delivery efficiency

This role is located in our Whippany, NJ office.

Minimum Salary: $155,000 Maximum Salary: $225,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

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.

Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.