The Release Train Engineer (RTE) is responsible for facilitating the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Agile Release Training (ART) processes and program execution, escalating impediments, managing risks, and helping drive program-level relentless improvement. The RTE is also responsible for facilitating program-level work within the SAFe framework and providing Agile coaching to all teams on the ART.
Must be located in: MI, OH, KY, IN, IL, and WI
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Provide management and guidance for the Agile Release Train (ART) relating to utilization of Agile practices and how to best ensure successful execution of Program Objectives.
- Work with all team members and stakeholders to achieve alignment.
- Collaborate with other RTE’s to ensure delivery of program level objectives across the business.
- Driving delivery of train value and reporting on the value achieved.
- Provides broad oversight to ART capacity, budgets, and costs to ensure valuation optimization including tracking, reporting, and communication to leadership.
- Schedule and facilitate key train ceremonies including Pre- and Post- Program Increment (PI) planning, PI planning, Scrum of Scrums, and ART Sync meetings.
- Continuously improve and facilitate innovation on the train by leveraging the Innovation and Planning Sprint, Inspect & Adapt, and Train Retrospectives.
- Aggregate ART teams’ objectives into Program PI Objectives.
- Provide Agile coaching to all members of the ART, as needed, to ensure proper program execution and program/feature grooming, including guidance on work breakdown for user stories, prioritization, estimation of work, evaluation of team velocity, decision-making, resourcing, removing impediments, and ultimately, delivery of value.
- Assess the Scaled Agile maturity of the team and coach the team to attain higher levels of maturity.
- Assist with internal and external communication and improve transparency of information and decisions.
- This job profile is not intended to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position; may perform other duties as assigned or required
What You Bring with You (Qualifications):
- Bachelor’s or equivalent combination of education and related experience, is required.
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Organizational Management, Engineering, Business, or related field preferred.
- Any Scrum Master certification.
- Any SAFe certifications or training and experience.
- SAFe Release Train Engineer training.
Experience:
- Minimum of 8 years’ experience in an IT role, with a minimum of 3 years in SAFe Agile environment.
- Experience working within a defined DevOps process helping Teams to achieve efficient CICD practices.
Functional/Technical Knowledge, Skills And Abilities Required:
- Comprehensive knowledge of or experience with an enterprise SAFe Agile process. This includes tools and techniques, including Kanban boards, user story writing, burndown techniques, and retrospective facilitation.
- Excellent communication and mentoring skills.
- Team level experience collaborating to deliver business value.
- Strong knowledge of Agile software development processes and techniques.
- Familiarity with secure code design principles and practices.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with an ability to express complex technical concepts in business terms.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and conceptual skills.
- Demonstrable experience working within a defined DevOps process helping Teams to achieve efficient CICD practices.
- Demonstrable experience defining and implementing new ways of working across a large team of teams.
- Ability to champion Development teams by maintaining a working understanding of how Development processes occur.