What are the responsibilities and job description for the Release Train Engineer - Billing and Clearance position at AXA XL Ltd?
Release Train Engineer – Billing and Clearance
Hartford, CT
The Digital Factory Release Train Engineer acts as a chief scrum master, coach to several squads (Teams of Teams / Programs) and ensures alignment across the Value Stream by providing knowledge and expertise to drive complex agile deliveries at scale.
The Release Train Engineer leads scrum of scrums and is accountable for end-to-end delivery of business solutions for the scope of the Digital Factory Team; Understands the strategy, needs and challenges of the business partners s / he supports as well as the end-to-end processes for those businesses. Oversees all products supporting that customer group within Digital Factory to ensure service levels are received and system changes are delivered to expectation. Accountable for the design, delivery, and support of solution using the Agile best practices.
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What will your essential responsibilities include?
- Facilitate cross-domain ceremonies and synchronization events across Teams of Teams
- Establish and communicate the Program Increment (PI) cadence / calendar of events and ensure reporting of Key Performance Indicators (KPI) on the delivery / products
- Establish the scope of services, service levels, and key processes required to deliver application services within the application portfolio
- Produce and maintain the roadmap of the products responsible for
- Align team to high-level organization goals and objectives
- Ensure Big Room Planning (BRP) readiness by fostering a Continuous Exploration process that drives the synthesis of a Vision, a Roadmap, and Backlogs, and through Pre- and Post-BRP Planning events
- Manage and report on budget and resource allocation and utilization
- Review and approve contracts for a predetermined level of authority
- Assist procurement to manage vendor relations and maintaining vendor accountability
- Drive improvements of ways of working via periodic synchronization events (e.g. PO Sync and Scrum of Scrums, helps to ensure cross streams alignment, progress / improvement on agile ways of working as a community of practice)
- Coach Leaders, Teams, Scrum Masters in agile practices at scale
- Responsible for overseeing technical lead(s), developer(s), Business analyst(s) and scrum master(s) within the delivery function.
- Support resolution of escalated risks and issues as a part of service Agile delivery
- Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders and suppliers
- Produce high-level estimates as needed
- Protect and maintain AXA XL’s Intellectual Property
- Ensure all processes are documented and maintained
- Develop change management strategies and approaches and assist business partners with readiness and change implementation
- Provides audit support for both internal and external assessments; Articulates policies and standards as appropriate and provides all required evidence on a timely basis. Owns the completion of any action plans. .
- In collaboration with Procurement, manages RFI / RFPs, contract negotiations and delivery of contract terms.
You will report to the Head of Digital Factory Delivery.
