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Senior Release Train Engineer (VP)
Pune, India
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Date live: 07/17/2025
Business Area: Risk Finance and Treasury
Area of Expertise: Change
Contract: Permanent
Reference Code: JR-0000049571
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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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Step into the role of Senior Release Train Engineer. At Barclays, we are more than a Bank, we are force of progress. As a Senior Release Train Engineer, you will 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.
To be a successful Senior Release Train Engineer, you should have experience with:
Release Train Management: Oversee and manage the Agile Release Train (ART) by ensuring the effective execution of Program Increments (PIs) and fostering a collaborative environment across all teams and stakeholders.
Scaled Agile Implementation: Drive the adoption and continuous improvement of SAFe practices and principles to enhance agility and streamline processes.
Change Management: Lead and support initiatives aimed at transforming the organization by implementing Scaled Agile specifications and methodologies.
Capacity and Demand Alignment: Develop and enforce procedures to align capacity and demand, thereby improving predictability and ensuring optimal resource utilization.
Performance Metrics: Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to measure the success of the ART and report progress to senior leadership.
Stakeholder Engagement: Engage with stakeholders at all levels to ensure their needs and expectations are met and to foster a culture of continuous improvement.
Risk Management: Identify and mitigate risks associated with program delivery and ensure the ART operates within defined parameters.
Additional relevant skills given below are highly valued:
Strategic Thinker: Ability to think strategically and develop long-term plans that align with organizational objectives.
Change Agent: Proactive in driving change and fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
Collaborative Leader: Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build and maintain effective relationships across all levels of the organization.
Results-Oriented: Focused on delivering results and achieving goals consistently.
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.
This role is based in 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

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Our purpose
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.
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Equal opportunities
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.
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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 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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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.
Application Process
Your application
We'll ask for information about you, your CV and cover letter. 1
Your assessment
Covering your behaviours and ability at work. 2
Your interview
Exploring your past experiences and skills. 3
Next step
We'll request additional information so that you can complete our screening process 4
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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