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Release Train Engineer

Pune, India

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Date live: 09/02/2026

Business Area: Corporate Digital Banking

Area of Expertise: Change

Contract: Permanent

Reference Code: JR-0000123258

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Barclays Change

Change leads and oversees transformational change initiatives at Barclays. Your role will involve managing projects and programs that drive strategic improvements and ensure successful implementation of change across the organization.

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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.
  • Strong risk and control mindset, with experience identifying delivery, operational, technology, data, security, and regulatory risks and ensuring appropriate ownership, mitigation, evidence, and escalation.
  • Ability to build a culture of transparency, accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning across teams while maintaining focus on quality, pace, and customer outcomes.
  • Advanced proficiency with delivery and collaboration tools such as JIRA and Confluence, including programme-level planning, dependency visualisation, risk tracking, governance reporting, and management information.
  • Strong leadership capabilities, with experience coaching Scrum Masters, delivery leads, Product Owners, and teams in effective Agile practices and raising delivery maturity across the organisation.
  • Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in a regulated financial services environment and manage delivery across business, technology, operations, and third-party stakeholders.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

  • SAFe Release Train Engineer, SAFe Practice Consultant, PMI-ACP, Scrum Alliance certification, or an equivalent Agile delivery qualification.
  • Experience leading API-first digital platforms, payments capabilities, external integrations, or other highly interconnected enterprise technology ecosystems.
  • Knowledge of banking industry standards, regulations, and compliance requirements relevant to digital channels, APIs, payments, or corporate banking.
  • Experience with value-stream management, portfolio alignment, lean budgeting, and translating strategic priorities into executable roadmaps.
  • Understanding of software engineering, architecture, testing, environment management, and non-functional requirements sufficient to challenge delivery assumptions and surface technical dependencies.
  • Experience enabling DevOps and CI/CD adoption, release automation, continuous testing, and incremental delivery across multiple teams.
  • Knowledge of service management, operational resilience, release and change management, and production-readiness practices.
  • Experience defining and using programme dashboards, flow measures, quality indicators, and outcome metrics to support leadership decisions.
  • Strong facilitation and coaching capability, including large-scale planning events, problem-solving workshops, retrospectives, and leadership forums.
  • Experience working with third-party suppliers, external partners, or federated teams with shared delivery accountabilities.
  • Knowledge of organisational change, communications, training, and adoption planning for complex transformation initiatives.
  • Experience improving delivery operating models, governance, ways of working, and team-of-teams collaboration at scale.

You may be assessed on 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.

The role is based out of Pune.

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 

Barclays welcomes applications from all candidates and is committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments (accommodations) are put in place to allow for a fair and inclusive recruitment process. For more information and how to request one, please review Adjustments to the recruitment process.

We’re a global, vital and highly respected financial organisation with an inspiring Purpose. Operating in 39 countries and employing around 100,000 people across the world, we help communities, individuals and businesses thrive. And we’ve created financial solutions and technology that the world now takes for granted. A career with us can offer incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience, and the chance to learn from some of the best minds in technology and finance.

To find out more about Barclays' strategy please click here.

We are an equal opportunity employer and opposed to discrimination on any grounds. It is the policy of Barclays to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, colour, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.

Barclays is required by law to confirm that you have the Legal Right to Work in any role that you apply for. If you currently hold a work visa sponsored by Barclays, or you would require sponsorship from Barclays, you must declare this as part of your application. Sponsored visas are role and entity specific and any changes must be reviewed. It is important that you ensure you are working on the correct visa at all times. Failure to accurately disclose your visa status or Legal Right to Work may result in your application or any employment offer being withdrawn at any time.

This role may be subject to enhanced governance arrangements. If successful, you may be required to comply with additional regulatory and compliance obligations, such as disclosure of personal trading activities and external interest/affiliations.

Further information on these requirements will be provided at a later stage of the process.

This is Barclays Pune

Barclays Pune is the largest campus outside of Barclays’ global headquarters in London. Our aim is to build game-changing technology that supports businesses and functions across the globe, offering the highest quality service to our clients and customers.

It’s a state-of-the-art technology hub, and home to 9,000 colleagues across Operations, Technology and Functions.

Pune Campus provides opportunities for our colleagues to innovate, collaborate, and deliver great outcomes for customers and clients.

Our welcoming and inclusive culture supports you to bring your whole self to work, explore your potential and pursue your passions.

Pune is a million-square-foot environment-friendly, ultra-modern workplace with excellent facilities for work, socialising and leisure.

This is Barclays Pune

Barclays Pune is the largest campus outside of Barclays’ global headquarters in London. Our aim is to build game-changing technology that supports businesses and functions across the globe, offering the highest quality service to our clients and customers.

An innovative hub

It’s a state-of-the-art technology hub, and home to 9,000 colleagues across Operations, Technology and Functions.

Working better together

Pune Campus provides opportunities for our colleagues to innovate, collaborate, and deliver great outcomes for customers and clients.

A place where you can belong

Our welcoming and inclusive culture supports you to bring your whole self to work, explore your potential and pursue your passions.

An amazing place to work

Pune is a million-square-foot environment-friendly, ultra-modern workplace with excellent facilities for work, socialising and leisure.

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Be you. Be valued. Belong.

We celebrate the unique perspectives and experiences each individual brings, believing our differences make us stronger and drive success.

You can learn more about our commitment to our colleague on our Inclusion and Opportunities page.

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We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. If you'd like to explore flexible working arrangements, please discuss this with the hiring manager. Your request will be reviewed in-line with the requirements of the role/business needs of the team.

Hybrid working

We have a structured approach to hybrid working, where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days, as set by the business area. Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

Barclays is built on an international scale.

Our geographic reach, our wide variety of functions, businesses, roles and locations reflect the rich diversity of our worldwide customer base. All of which means we offer incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience.
And the chance to learn from a globally diverse mix of colleagues, including some of the very best minds in banking, finance, technology and business. Throughout, we’ll encourage you to embrace mobility, exploring every part of our operations as you build your career.

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