Release Train Engineer - VP

Barclays•Wilmington, NC

19d•Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

Agile delivery, tools, and backlog management
Data-driven agreement-making and metrics reporting
Financial and risk management
risk and controls
change and transformation
business acumen
strategic thinking
digital and technology
job-specific technical skills

Responsibilities

Facilitates and coordinates Agile Release Trains (ARTs) to ensure that multiple teams within a program are aligned and delivering value efficiently.
Manages dependencies, removes impediments, and oversees the planning and execution of Program Increments.
Fosters collaboration across teams, ensures alignment with business objectives, and drives continuous improvement in large-scale Agile environments.
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