About the role

  • Senior Release Train Engineer facilitating and coaching Agile Release Trains at Navy Federal. Coordinating events, empowering teams, and resolving issues for successful delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for managing agile teams within the Product domains and ensuring scrum/kanban success
  • Enable teams to remove impediments. Act as escalation point for impediments the team cannot remove in a timely manner
  • Own escalated impediments and raise issues to leadership if they cannot be resolved in a timely manner
  • Continuously work with teams and to deliver PI Objectives
  • Owns the Risk, Issues, Action and Decision Register for a specific train
  • Manage dependencies between Development Teams within and across Programs or Agile Release Trains
  • Partner with stakeholders to identify and address staffing and tool needs
  • Enable and coach teams to define capacity for PI Planning
  • Develop and serve as owner of the program release communication plan; schedule and facilitate program release planning activities
  • Gather and report performance information and metrics (e.g., Release burn down data, etc.), and work with teams to continually improve based on metrics
  • Update and communicate Release Plans
  • Collaborate with Product Management, Systems Architects, teams as needed
  • Build and maintain relationships with lines of business, teams, management, and key stakeholders
  • Assist with developing and delivering training and workshops as requested
  • Become an influential leader within for the team and promote Agility across Navy Federal
  • Encourage teams to embrace a Lean/Agile Mindset
  • Help resolve team conflicts when needed

Requirements

  • 12-15 years of experience working within Information Technology as a Project Manager, Program Manager, Product Manager, Product Owner, or Release Train Engineer
  • Experience coaching agile teams and assessing their development maturity
  • Experience working with Azure DevOps
  • Experience in creating reporting metrics and dashboards that illustrate the flow of value
  • Experience in leading successful delivery teams
  • Experience in software development
  • Experience as a Scrum Master or Delivery Lead in leading transformation
  • Successful track record implementing Agile methodologies
  • Experience working with all levels of staff, management, stakeholders, vendors
  • Ability to coach and mentor scrum masters and empower the delivery teams to embrace agility
  • Ability to remove impediments that impact the team's planned execution
  • Ability to create release plans and roadmaps needed for existing product or platform release
  • Ability to work both independently and as part of a team in a matrixed environment
  • Advanced skill to influence, negotiate and persuade to reach agreeable exchange and positive outcomes
  • Advanced skill in motivating and uplifting team members using teaching/mentoring skills
  • Advanced skill building effective relationships through rapport, trust, diplomacy and tact
  • Advanced problem solving, collaboration, critical thinking, team building, and presentation skills
  • Advanced verbal, interpersonal and written communication skills
  • Advanced word processing, spreadsheet, diagramming, and presentation software skills
  • Advanced skill to deliver presentations to virtual and in-person teams
  • Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field, or the equivalent combination of education, training, and experience

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Flexible work hours
  • Paid time off
  • Remote work options

Job title

Senior Release Train Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$131,700 - $206,450 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

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