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 

Join us at Barclays as a Technical Delivery Lead. At Barclays, we're transforming the future of Finance Technology through strategic platforms that support critical Banking Book and accounting capabilities. We're looking for an experienced Technical Delivery Lead to play a pivotal role in driving the delivery of our Banking Book Subledger transformation programme, leading modern technology initiatives at scale while partnering with engineering, architecture, finance and business stakeholders.

To be successful as a Technical Delivery Lead, you should have experience with:

• Deep technical leadership across Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, APIs, distributed systems and cloud-native architectures, with the ability to lead technical design and delivery decisions across complex engineering environments.

• Leading large-scale SAFe Agile Release Trains as a Technical Delivery Lead, Release Train Engineer or similar, including PI Planning, dependency management, risk mitigation, delivery governance and driving predictable outcomes across multiple teams.

• Delivering complex enterprise transformation programmes with strong stakeholder management skills, including governance, RAID management, executive communication and collaboration across Architecture, Engineering, Product, Operations, Finance and Control functions.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience within Banking Book, Subledger, General Ledger, Accounting Controls, Treasury, Product Control or Finance Reporting environments.

• Knowledge of data and integration architecture, including financial data platforms, reconciliation processes, event sourcing, APIs, ETL pipelines, messaging platforms and large-scale data transformations.

• A strong engineering excellence and DevOps mindset, including automation, CI/CD, test automation, release management, engineering metrics, code quality and continuous improvement practices.

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 is based in Northampton.