Overview

Join Barclays as a Release Train Engineer, where you will lead and coach Scrum Masters and Feature Teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support. You will drive technical excellence, foster a culture of innovation, and continuously optimise delivery flow to ensure high-quality software solutions.

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

• Agile Coaching & Facilitation - Leading Agile Release Train (ART) ceremonies, coaching teams on Agile principles, and driving continuous improvement to optimise delivery flow and operational efficiency.
• Dependency & Risk Management - Identifying, tracking, and resolving cross-team dependencies and risks to ensure seamless delivery and strategic alignment.
• Communication & Stakeholder Engagement - Facilitating collaboration, managing expectations, and maintaining clear, consistent communication across all levels of the organisation.

Other Highly Valued Skills Include

• Extensive experience coaching Scrum Masters and Feature Teams on Agile principles and leading key ART events.
• Solid background in programme or release management.
• Proven ability to manage complex dependencies across large-scale organisations.

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 has the option to work from the following locations: Knutsford or London, Luke Street.

Purpose of the role

To lead and manage engineering teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions, driving technical excellence, fostering a culture of innovation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align technical decisions with business objectives.

Accountabilities

• Lead engineering teams effectively, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture to achieve project goals and meet organizational objectives.
• Oversee timelines, team allocation, risk management and task prioritization to ensure the successful delivery of solutions within scope, time, and budget.
• Mentor and support team members' professional growth, conduct performance reviews, provide actionable feedback, and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Evaluate and enhance engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to increase efficiency, streamline workflows, and optimize team productivity.
• Collaborate with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development.
• Enforce technology standards, facilitate peer reviews, and implement robust testing practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions.

Barclays Leadership & Expectations

• Contribute to strategy, drive requirements, and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
• Define roles and responsibilities when leading teams, plan for future needs, coach performance, and influence operations in alignment with strategic priorities while balancing short and long-term goals.
• Demonstrate leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: Listen and be authentic; Energise and inspire; Align across the enterprise; Develop others.
• For individual contributors, guide technical direction and lead multi-year assignments, training and coaching less experienced specialists, and contributing to strategic decisions.
• Advise key stakeholders on functional and cross-functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate understanding of the organisation to contribute to achieving business goals.
• Collaborate with other areas to stay aligned with business activity and strategy.
• Develop solutions through sophisticated analytical thinking and problem solving.
• Adopt the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Build and maintain trusting relationships with internal and external stakeholders to achieve key business objectives.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries
• Banking and Financial Services

Manchester, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago

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