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  • ID
    #15787432
  • Job type
    Contract
  • Salary
    Depends on Experience
  • Source
    SPECTRAFORCE TECHNOLOGIES Inc.
  • Date
    2021-06-10
  • Deadline
    2021-08-09

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Job Title:

Agile Release Train Engineer / Program Manager

Location:

Auburn Hills, MI

Contract Duration: 6-12 months (possible extension)

Job Description:The RTE’s major responsibility is to lead Agile Release Trains (ART)/development teams to success and navigate the complexity of delivering software consistently in large environments. The RTE communicates with stakeholders, escalates impediments, helps manage risk, and drives improvement. They play a critical link between multiple scrum teams/development teams; facilitating communications, opening the flow of information, and sharing important progress updates to ensure all teams involved in the ART are focused on successful delivery. The RTE is accountable for the overall coordination, execution and delivery of value through the program/initiatives while ensuring alignment with company strategy, commitments and goals.

Roles & Responsibilities:

RTE and Portfolio Management:
  • Guide and manage the ART and the Agile teams through the delivery of software and services, embracing and promoting the Agile mindset
  • Define and create Portfolio level reporting in partnership with SCRUM Masters, Resource Managers and Project Managers
  • Manage and optimize the flow of value through the ART and Solution Train using various tools, such as the Program and Solution Kanbans
  • Facilitate PI Planning readiness by fostering a Continuous Exploration process which drives the synthesis of a Vision, a Roadmap, and Backlogs, and through Pre- and Post-PI Planning meetings
  • Summarize Team PI Objectives into Program PI Objectives (the RTE) and publish them for visibility and transparency
  • Assist tracking the execution of features and capabilities
  • Facilitate periodic synchronization meetings, including the ART sync at the Program Level and the value stream sync for Release Trains
  • Assist with economic decision-making by facilitating feature and capability estimation by teams and the roll-up to Epics, where necessary
  • Coach leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets Help manage risks and dependencies
  • Escalate and track impediments
  • Provide input on resourcing to address critical bottlenecks
  • Encourage collaboration between teams and System and Solution Architects
• Coordinating with PMO on reporting and management needs of the organization Work across Product Management, Product Owners and other stakeholders to define and prioritize work to help ensure successful execution of work and strategy

Change Management (Agile Process Evangelist) • Ensures methodology alignment on the digital teams to work with Agile methodologies• Promote an Agile cultural change all over the interdependencies teams, organizing training, workshops and other different similar activities that are needed to support the change management process

Release Planning and Management • Manage vendor and cross-functional team dependencies for product development and integrations to meet initiative objectives• Maintain project and/or program tracking• Understand, advocate and communicate business unit objectives, goals, vision and strategy to team to enable application/technology solutions that contribute towards achieving value• Ability to recognize and mitigate conflict and problems with project, product and team resources and apply escalation appropriately

Required • Excellent knowledge of SAFe and SCRUM• Working across multiple ART across geographies• Hands on experience in Scrum & Kanban as well as Agile scaling methodologies - such as SAFe, LeSS and SaS• Deep understanding of Agile values, principles, and practices (Scrum and Kanban)• Strong facilitation, communication, interpersonal, conflict resolution, leadership and negotiation skills• Commitment to continuous learning, highly efficient in coaching Scrum Masters, team members and Product Owners• Coaching experience in a complex, large agile environment• Agile transformation or other organizational change experience• Knowledgeable in DevOps practices• Agile budgeting – must grasp the concept of taking work to the team compared to project-based funding models• Metrics – must understand which meaningful metrics to track, how they should be interpreted, and courses of action needed

Desired:
  • Experience in a large financial services environment is a plus.
  • Experience of working in an organization working in hybrid mode of Agile and Waterfall model
  • Working with teams situated in different geographies and time zones

Education: (Required)
  • B.S.or B.A. in Computer Science or related discipline, Business Administration, Finance, Accounting or equivalent job experience.
  • SAFe and/or SCRUM or equivalent certification

Desired:
  • Advanced Degree a plus
  • PMP certification
  • Travel possible up to 25%

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