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Join us as a Release Train Engineer at Barclays, where you’ll play a pivotal role in guiding our Agile Release Trains and driving the successful delivery of large-scale initiatives. You’ll bring strong Lean Agile expertise, coaching capabilities, and exceptional facilitation skills to foster collaboration, remove impediments, and ensure smooth execution across teams. You’ll help shape the direction of our delivery organisation by championing continuous improvement, orchestrating critical ART events, and supporting our teams in delivering high quality outcomes.
Job Responsibility:
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.
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
Requirements:
Lean-Agile Expertise: Deep understanding and extensive experience with SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, and system thinking
Experience with expertly leading ART events (PI Planning, Inspect & Adapt, ART Sync) and creating collaborative environments
Proven track record of working in an Agile environment as a Delivery Manager/RTE
Strong project management skills and experience
Nice to have:
Technical Knowledge: technical background helps the RTE understand the challenges the development teams face.
Budget Management: An understanding of lean budgeting
Advanced Certifications: Additional certifications such as SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) for leading transformations, SAFe Scrum Master (SSM), SAFe DevOps Practitioner, or professional coaching certifications can provide a significant advantage