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# Senior Release Train Engineer

- **Company:** Barclays Bank PLC
- **Location:** Glasgow, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Continuous Delivery, Scrum Methodology, Release Management
- **Published:** July 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=673dfc742d575b75

## About the Role

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

 * PI Planning Leadership
 * Flow Optimisation & Delivery Orchestration
 * Cross-Team Dependency Management

Some other highly valued skills may include;

 * Technical Delivery Awareness
 * Change Leadership
 * Executive Communication

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

## Description

Join Barclays as a Senior Release Train Engineer where you will Lead and coordinate Agile Release Trains (ARTs), ensuring teams are aligned and delivering value efficiently at scale.

You will manage dependencies, remove impediments, facilitate Program Increment planning, and drive successful delivery while fostering collaboration, continuous improvement, and alignment with business objectives across a large-scale Agile environment., 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


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