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Praha, Česko
Hybrid
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
Vice President Expectations
To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
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.
Join us as a Release Train Engineer at Barclays, where you’ll play a pivotal role in guiding our Agile Release Trains and driving the successful delivery of large-scale projects. You’ll bring extensive Lean Agile expertise, coaching capabilities, and exceptional facilitation skills to foster collaboration, remove impediments, and ensure smooth execution across teams. You’ll help shape the direction of our delivery organisation by championing continuous improvement, orchestrating critical ART events, and supporting our teams in delivering high quality outcomes.
To be successful as a Release Train Engineer, you should have:
Some other highly valued skills may include:
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 and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
This role will be based in our Prague office.
Minimum Salary: Kč 1,540,000.00
The minimum salary information above includes only annual full-time equivalent base salary and typically represents the lowest level of pay for this role. The actual pay rate will reflect the responsibility level of the role and experience level of the individual. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.
Barclays employees are also eligible for a suite of competitive country-specific benefits.
This position is eligible for an incentive award.