Release Train Engineer

Join us as a Release Train Engineer at Barclays where you will spearhead the evolution of our API First digital strategy, driving innovation and operational excellence.

You will lead and enable coordinated delivery across multiple teams, aligning strategy, execution, dependencies, risk management, and continuous improvement to deliver robust, scalable, and secure digital solutions.

To be successful in this role, you must have:

• Extensive experience leading delivery across complex, multi-team technology programmes, with accountability for planning, execution, dependency management, risk resolution, and measurable outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to lead an Agile Release Train or equivalent scaled delivery construct, aligning product, business, architecture, engineering, testing, operations, and control stakeholders around shared objectives.
• Advanced expertise in facilitating programme-level planning, including vision alignment, roadmap readiness, capacity and demand management, sequencing, dependency identification, and commitment setting.
• Proven ability to establish and govern effective delivery cadences, ensuring that planning, execution, demonstrations, retrospectives, and improvement activities translate into predictable outcomes.
• Strong leadership in identifying and removing systemic impediments, resolving cross-team conflicts, escalating material constraints, and enabling timely evidence-based decisions.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to communicate delivery health, options, risks, dependencies, and recommendations to senior business and technology audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to use delivery data and flow metrics to identify bottlenecks, improve predictability, and drive continuous improvement without compromising quality or control standards.
• Strong understanding of Agile, Lean, DevOps, and systems-thinking principles, with experience applying them pragmatically across large and geographically distributed teams.
• Proven experience partnering with Product Management and senior engineering leaders to maintain strategic alignment, prioritise outcomes, manage scope, and balance customer value with technical sustainability.
• Experience coordinating complex release activities across integrated systems, including readiness assessment, environment and test dependencies, business acceptance, operational readiness, and implementation governance.