Release Train Engineer

Join us as a Release Train Engineer at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You will be involved in facilitating and coordinating 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.

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

• Accountable to ensure readiness across scope, content and logistics to deliver value through facilitation of team of teams events.     
• Monitor planning execution, facilitate periodic synchronization events, and support cross-team backlog refinement to ensure strategic alignment to business goals.     
• Provide coaching to teams and Scrum Masters on cross-team agile principles, team events, and practices.    
• Identify and track cross-team dependencies and risks, ensuring mitigation to support delivery of outcomes. Accountable to remove blockers.    
• Facilitate stakeholder collaboration (e.g., business stakeholders, product teams, vendors), build trust with stakeholders, and drive stakeholder alignment.   
• Champion Ways of Working and Agile culture, creating a safe and trusting environment for team members to share ideas and take appropriate risks.
•  Drive partnership and synchronization across teams to facilitate release management across stakeholder groups. Accountable for effective readiness and communication.
• 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.
• Track and report key metrics to provide representation at required leadership and governance forums and to ensure continuous delivery improvement .

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Familiarity with Agile tools (e.g., Jira, Rally) and automation practices for reporting and dependency tracking.
• Guide Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and even senior leaders in Lean-Agile practices.
• Ensure transparency and clarity across teams and leadership layers.
• Use metrics like velocity, predictability, and team health to inform decisions and improve ART performance.
• Understand interdependencies across teams, technology, and business processes to maintain alignment and flow.
• Understand Lean-Agile principles, ART orchestration, and Program Increment (PI) planning at scale. VP-level RTEs often lead multiple ARTs or large solution trains.
• Expert in running PI Planning, ART Syncs, System Demos, and Inspect & Adapt workshops with clarity and engagement.
• Drive relentless improvement across ARTs, leveraging retrospectives and metrics to optimize flow and delivery.

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 Pune location.

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