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 Release Train Engineer - VP. At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. You will play a pivotal role in driving the delivery of strategic Consumer Risk Technology programs that strengthen strategic planning, enhance customer outcomes, and support the growth of the US Consumer Bank. Working with senior business executives, product teams, and technology partners, you'll help accelerate Agile execution at scale while driving measurable business value across a highly visible portfolio. This is a unique opportunity to influence enterprise-wide transformation, enhance your strategic capabilities in a SAFe environment, and make a tangible impact on Barclays mission to innovate with purpose while building a safer and more resilient banking experience for millions of customers.

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

• Considerable experience as a Release Train Engineer, Senior Scrum Master, or Agile delivery professional within large-scale, enterprise-level technology organizations, with a deep understanding of SAFe and Agile framework

• Demonstrated an established ability to oversee cross-functional teams and coordinate delivery across multiple products, platforms, and business stakeholders while navigating competing priorities

• Excel at facilitating PI Planning, Agile Release Train events, dependency coordination, and risk mitigation, ensuring teams remain aligned to strategic goals and delivery commitments

• Communicated effectively with executives, product managers, and technology teams, translating multifaceted delivery obstacles into clear insights and actionable outcomes

• Demonstrated a continuous improvement mindset with experience leveraging metrics, data, and Agile best practices to enhance predictability, delivery performance, and business value realization

Other highly valued skills include:

• Experience within financial services, risk oversight, or regulated environments, with an understanding of governance, safeguards, and regulatory delivery considerations

• SAFe certifications, RTE, SPC, or Advanced Scrum Master and experience supporting Agile transformations, coaching teams, and leaders in Lean-Agile practices at scale

• Proficiency with Agile delivery tools and reporting platforms, like Jira, Confluence, using data-driven insights to improve planning, execution, and continuous improvement

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 our Wilmington, DE office.