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Senior Release Train Engineer VP – Digital Assets
senior · Technology / Software Development
Job Description
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
Embark on a transformative journey as a Senior Release Train Engineer VP – Digital Assets. At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will join a team working at the ground floor of a 0-to-1 build. You will drive the execution and delivery of Barclays' Digital Assets Platform, coordinating engineering, product, architecture, operations, risk, legal, controls, compliance, and business stakeholders. In this role, you will be responsible for maintaining delivery momentum, managing dependencies, removing blockers, and ensuring strategic initiatives such as institutional wallets, tokenized deposits, stablecoins, and digital asset infrastructure are delivered safely, efficiently, and in line with regulatory expectations. If you are a delivery leader who can align teams, manage dependencies, and drive execution across a complex digital asset platform while balancing engineering priorities, business objectives, and regulatory requirements this is an ideal role for you.
To be successful as a Senior Release Train Engineer VP – Digital Assets, you should:
Bring proven experience leading complex technology delivery programs across multiple agile teams within regulated environments
Demonstrate expertise in Agile delivery, dependency management, release planning, execution tracking, and delivery governance
Be highly effective at driving alignment across engineering, product, architecture, risk, legal, controls, compliance, operations, and business teams
Be comfortable identifying execution risks, removing blockers, resolving dependencies, and maintaining delivery momentum across multiple workstreams
Possess considerable communication and stakeholder management skills, including preparing executive updates, governance materials, and leadership reporting
Other highly valued skills include:
Understanding of digital asset platforms, institutional wallets, tokenized deposits, stablecoins, blockchain infrastructure, and digital asset settlement
Experience managing vendor onboarding, third-party dependencies, procurement, and technology delivery partners
Knowledge of technology risk, operational resilience, regulatory controls, and audit readiness within financial services
Experience with workforce planning, budget tracking, delivery metrics, and program operating models
Confidence using AI-enabled productivity and planning tools to improve reporting, coordination, decision-making, and delivery efficiency
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in this 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 our Whippany, NJ office.
Minimum Salary: $155,000
Maximum Salary: $225,000
The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes 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.