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Release Train Engineer - VP

Whippany, United States; Wilmington, United States

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Date live: 07/24/2026

Business Area: Cards Platform

Area of Expertise: Change

Contract: Permanent

Reference Code: JR-0000115865

Salary / Rate $ 155,000.00 - $ 225,000.00

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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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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. In this role, you will drive Agile delivery at scale, enabling strategic change across multiple squads and helping shape the future of banking through innovation and collaboration. The Release Train Engineer, RTE oversees the planning and execution of Planning Increments, PIs through the guidance of multiple Squads within a Journey Group / Platform. The RTE manages dependencies, removes impediments, and ensures alignment and delivery to business outcomes. RTEs foster collaboration across Squads, ensure alignment with business targets, and drive continuous improvement in large-scale Agile environments.

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

  • Supporting the delivery activities across multiple Agile teams, ensuring successful execution of Planning Increments (PIs) and achievement of business outcomes

  • Coaching and mentoring cross-functional teams on Agile principles, fostering consistency, collaboration, and adherence to best practices

  • Identifying, assessing, and mitigating delivery risks to ensure smooth, predictable, and high-quality releases

  • Facilitating and coordinating stakeholder engagement to socialize, validate, and align feature requirements with downstream teams

  • Guiding feature and story planning, including slotting, dependency identification and tracking in RAID and Jira, while driving timely resolution of cross-team dependencies

Other highly valued skills include:

  • Agile delivery, tools, and backlog management

  • Data-driven agreement-making and metrics reporting

  • Financial and risk management

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 Whippany, NJ or Wilmington, DE office.

Salary in Whippany, NJ:


Minimum Salary: $155,000
Maximum Salary: $225,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.

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 Whippany

Barclays Whippany is a bespoke technology-led, state-of-the-art workplace of the future. It brings thousands of talented people together in our vital Tech, Cyber Security and Payments command centers that are key to our US and global strategy.

Our campus has everything you need. From excellent food options to childcare, beautiful outdoor areas, collaborative spaces and more.

As well as plentiful onsite parking, we offer a shuttle bus from Manhattan, Newark Penn and Morristown. Commuting made easy.

Our health and fitness centre supports your wellbeing with gym facilities, fitness classes and knowledgeable experts to guide you.

With 63 acres and 500k+ square feet of unique office and amenity facilities, prioritizing co-location, comfort, and productivity.

This is Barclays Whippany

Barclays Whippany is a bespoke technology-led, state-of-the-art workplace of the future. It brings thousands of talented people together in our vital Tech, Cyber Security and Payments command centers that are key to our US and global strategy.

Colleague facilities

Our campus has everything you need. From excellent food options to childcare, beautiful outdoor areas, collaborative spaces and more.

Your commute

As well as plentiful onsite parking, we offer a shuttle bus from Manhattan, Newark Penn and Morristown. Commuting made easy.

Your wellbeing

Our health and fitness centre supports your wellbeing with gym facilities, fitness classes and knowledgeable experts to guide you.

An amazing place to work

With 63 acres and 500k+ square feet of unique office and amenity facilities, prioritizing co-location, comfort, and productivity.

Multicultural ERGs at Barclays

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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Your assessment

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Working flexibly

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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