Release Train Engineer

Job Summary

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Drive 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.
• Agregate 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or equivalent combination of education and related experience, 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.
• Minimum of 8 years' experience in an IT role, with a minimum of 3 years in SAFe Agile environment.
• Experience performing the Scrum Master role for a minimum of one year.
• 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 for Development teams by maintaining a working understanding of how Development processes occur.
• Demonstrated ability to change teams at a team of teams level.
• Ability to guide and improve processes.
• Experience running PI planning and speaking in front of large groups.
• Experience In a Grocery Environment (preferred).