Release Train Engineer

job summary:

• Looking for a Release Train Engineer for managing several teams over many programs. This role is responsible for optimizing the flow of Deliverables/Epics/Stories and the value delivered by a complex/very large Agile Release Train (ART), and is focused on serving the needs of the train to drive performance and growth.
• Key responsibilities include: coordinating and facilitating the ART ceremonies, managing dependencies across teams in the ART, and providing visibility into the health of Deliverable/Epic/Story delivery and the overall program increment.
• This role ensures impediments to Deliverable/Epic/Story delivery are resolved quickly, protects the teams from outside disruptions to delivery, and drives continuous improvement for the ART.
• Will be facilitating synch points between business and technology leaders. In addition, promote and coach the Agile mindset and principles, enabling the ART to become high-performing as one cohesive team.

• Guide and coach the teams on the Agile Release Train (ART) on Scrum practices, and develop their understanding of Agile principles.
• Help define norms/agreements for the ART and enforce the agreements.
• In collaboration with the Product Manager/Owner, ensures the program has a healthy product/program backlog. Facilitate dependency management/risk management /impediment removal for the ART.
• Promote/facilitate communication and collaboration within the ART to support value delivery and PI commitments.
• Responsible for providing status updates and reporting pertaining to ART plans/delivery/timelines/impediments to stakeholders and leadership.
• Ensure Enterprise Change Management and other policy requirements for technology solutions are met for the epics/features delivered by the ART.
• Measure ART delivery, maturity, and performance and review the metrics with the ART to identify improvement opportunities.
• Capture data to help determine/track health and deliverables
• Mentor scrum masters.

• Experience leading technology projects.
• Knowledge of Agile and CI/CD tools
• Has knowledge of software development and Quality Assurance Testing practices.
• Has Project Management Skills
• Knowledge of automation and continuous delivery practices.
• Awareness/ ability to learn the architecture and design of the applications
• Ability to Identify risk/dependencies and quantifies the impact it has on the business/technology and what controls are to be used to resolve.
• Facilitates collaboration within and across teams; across trains and across lines of business.
• Experience leading large scale transformation programs, involving business process and change
• Experience delivering large scale IT solutions leveraging Agile or Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Knowledge of JIRA and basic knowledge of Confluence

• Guide and coach the teams on the Agile Release Train (ART) on Scrum practices, and develop their understanding of Agile principles.
• Help define norms/agreements for the ART and enforce the agreements.
• In collaboration with the Product Manager/Owner, ensures the program has a healthy product/program backlog. Facilitate dependency management/risk management /impediment removal for the ART.
• Promote/facilitate communication and collaboration within the ART to support value delivery and PI commitments.
• Responsible for providing status updates and reporting pertaining to ART plans/delivery/timelines/impediments to stakeholders and leadership.
• Ensure Enterprise Change Management and other policy requirements for technology solutions are met for the epics/features delivered by the ART.
• Measure ART delivery, maturity, and performance and review the metrics with the ART to identify improvement opportunities.
• Capture data to help determine/track health and deliverables
• Mentor scrum masters.

• Experience level: Experienced
• Minimum 3 years of experience
• Education: Bachelors