Senior Release Train Engineer

Role Overview

• Oversees release trains (groups of agile teams) that are of strategic importance to our business and have complex scope and interdependencies.
• Has responsibility for facilitating ceremonies and work management for both the Release Train Team, as well as a subset or all of the delivery teams associated with that Release Train.
• Facilitates the coordinated preparation of release planning for the release train and delivery teams, including communication and coordination with stakeholders and customers during feature definition and delivery.
• Actively manages the backlog, as well as ALM tool data integrity for accurate reporting.
• Coordinate major feature releases and ongoing delivery of value to customers where multiple teams, release trains, or solution groups are involved in development.
• Resolve/report a wide range of issues and manage dependencies and risks across the ART, between ART’s, as well as across delivery teams.
• Leverages agile delivery metrics and regular Agile ceremonies to identify and drive continuous improvement, in order to maximize organizational performance and execution against the backlog.
• Regularly participates in the RTE and SM Community of Practice, helping the organization to maintain alignment, learn new techniques, and improve technical and quality practices.
• Work with RTE and SM community to determine ways to help ARTs across the company improve cross-training and solution group coordination and collaboration.
• Applies Agile principles and methodology solutions with a pragmatic, stakeholder-management approach.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 4 years’ experience in a related field.
• 4+ years’ experience in a Release Train Engineer role; or 5+ years’ experience in a Scrum Master or Agile Program Manager title.
• Strong technical aptitude and experience leading teams in delivering quality software.
• Experience using ALM tools preferred; Rally or Target process experience is a plus.
• Position requires minimum 2 days / wk in-office; candidates must live in metropolitan area of job location.
• Preferred Experience leveraging and interpreting agile metrics.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate large planning and solutioning sessions.
• Understanding of Agile at scale philosophies & methodologies.
• Experience with Organizational Change Management practices.
• Experience working in an Agile organization using Scrum, XP, Kanban, or Agile at scale practices.
• Drug Testing.

Benefits

• The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations
• seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year
• up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members.
• Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
• health care insurance (medical, dental, vision)
• retirement planning (401(k))
• paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO).