Join us as Release Train Engineer at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences.
Release management - Validated capability leading & guiding within a release management team to manage and deliver continuous software releases, from scope definition through to live implementation
~ Process improvement – Demonstrated history of identifying and driving improvements to software release processes, working across stakeholder teams to implement effective solutions and communicate changes to processes
~Governance – Experience evaluating software changes and releases against key governance criteria, and experience working with structured change management processes and systems to achieve successful delivery
Experience working with Scrum / Kanban approaches, ideally in a SAFe environment
Knowledge and experience of Jira, and automated software delivery processes
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.
To manage the efficient delivery of large-scale technical projects and capabilities across the bank and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to understand their needs and expectations throughout the software product lifecycle, adhering to agreed time, budget and quality requirements.
Management of the delivery, resource allocation and improvement of complex technical project capabilities across the bank using Agile/Scrum methodologies for planning, stand-ups, demos, retrospectives and the execution of sprints.
Collaboration with software engineers, quality teams, product managers and other engineering teams to deliver high-quality products and features through the software project lifecycle aligned to the banks objectives, regulation and security policies.
Identification, assessment, and mitigation of risks associated with technical projects to prepare the bank for potential challenges.
Management of change requests and communication with stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
Management of vendor relations involved in technical projects to ensure they deliver according to agreed terms.
To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.