Release Train Engineer PM 4

ON SITE Interview REQUIRED: In person Interview

• LOCAL candidates required
• Candidate should be able to work onsite up to 3 days/week
  
  

Responsibilities:

• Plan, lead, organize, and motivate agile and traditional project teams to achieve a high level of performance and quality in delivering projects that provide exceptional business value to the internal and external stakeholders.
• Drive consistent project delivery through the entire project lifecycle, including Project plans, Release plans, Resource allocation, and management of project risks, schedule, budget, and delivery of value.
• Provide leadership in the establishment and development of project base line budgets, resource allocation, and schedules.
• Track and communicate project's progress from a schedule, cost, and risk perspective to the project team, stakeholders, and management.
• Manage and optimize the flow of value through the ART using various tools, such as the Program Kanban and other information radiators.
• Establish and communicate the annual calendars for Iterations and Program Increments (PIs).
• Facilitate PI Planning readiness, PI Planning event, and PI execution e.g. Roadmap, Backlogs, Risks, Dependencies, and PI Objectives, etc.
• Assist feature prioritization, tracking the execution of features e.g. Train level metrics.
• Facilitate synchronization meetings e.g. Scrum of Scrums and Program Committee Meetings.
• Coach Managers, Teams, and Scrum Masters in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets.
• Escalate and track impediments, help identify and address critical bottlenecks.
• Encourage collaboration between teams, Engineering, and Enterprise Architects.
• Help ensure strategy and execution alignment (Product Management and Stakeholders).
• Assess practices with DevOps, etc. and help improve Continuous Delivery Pipeline.
• Conduct Inspect and Adapt workshops, facilitate System Demos, assess the agility level of the ART and help them improve.
• Ability to take on additional responsibilities such as Scrum Master, Community of Practice, etc.
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities:

• PMP and Scrum Master Certification is required.
• SAFe SPC or RTE Certification is required.
• 5 years of RTE experience is required.
• 3 years of RTE experience managing Power Platform teams is required.
• An understanding of creating and maintaining Program Increment Backlogs.
• Ability to lead and direct the software development teams through program increment and program iteration planning.
• Experience with agile software development for complex Information Technology systems.
• Strong interpersonal skills including mentoring, coaching, collaborating, and team building.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and decision-making skills.
• Strong verbal/written communication skills with the ability to simplify and communicate complex issues to multiple audiences.
• Ability to work with customers, understand their business practices and manage their expectations.
• Expertise with Project Management tools such as Microsoft Project, Visio, and MS Office.
• Experience with Agile collaboration tools such as Team Foundation Server, JIRA, Version One, etc.
  
  

Skill

Required / Desired

Amount

of Experience

SAFe Agile Release Train Engineer Hands-on Experience.

Required

5

Years

SAFe Agile Release Train Engineer Experience managing Power Platform teams.

Required

3

Years

Balance business/technical background to provide highly credible leadership to technology teams.

Required

5

Years

Ability to work with customers, understand their business practices and manage their expectations.

Required

12

Years

Strong verbal/written communication skills with the ability to simplify and communicate complex issues to multiple audiences.

Required

12

Years

Hands-on experience with MS Project

Required

3

Years

PMP Certification

Required

Scrum Master Certification

Required

SAFe SPC or RTE Certification