Onsite Senior Release Train Engineer

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About the role

  • Senior Release Train Engineer leading Agile Release Trains and delivering customer servicing capabilities in multiple products and channels. Facilitating planning and execution events and ensuring alignment across teams.

Responsibilities

  • Facilitate Agile Planning and Events: Accountable to ensure readiness across scope, content and logistics to deliver value through facilitation of team of teams events.
  • Support Planning Execution: Monitor planning execution, facilitate periodic synchronization events, and support cross-team backlog refinement to ensure strategic alignment to business goals.
  • Coach Cross-Team Agile: Provide coaching to teams and Scrum Masters on cross-team agile principles, team events, and practices.
  • Mitigate Risks: Identify and track cross-team dependencies and risks, ensuring mitigation to support delivery of outcomes. Accountable to remove blockers.
  • Stakeholder Management: Facilitate stakeholder collaboration (e.g., business stakeholders, product teams, vendors), build trust with stakeholders, and drive stakeholder alignment.
  • Champion Ways of Working: Champion Ways of Working and Agile culture, creating a safe and trusting environment for team members to share ideas and take appropriate risks.
  • Coordinate Interlock and Dependency Management: Drive partnership and synchronization across teams to facilitate release management across stakeholder groups. Accountable for effective readiness and communication.
  • Optimize Flow: Drive towards relentless improvement and ensure value delivery by monitoring delivery status, ensuring technology use and data quality, addressing bottlenecks, and serving as a point of escalation.
  • Metrics and Reporting: Track and report key metrics to provide representation at required leadership and governance forums and to ensure continuous delivery improvement.

Requirements

  • Proven experience in an Agile environment (e.g. Agile tools, mindset, methodology, delivery, and development), with experience in a leadership or RTE role.
  • Demonstrated history of identifying and driving improvements, working across stakeholder teams to implement effective continuous improvement methodologies.
  • Understanding of SAFe Agile delivery principles with formal certification preferred, such as: SAFe SPC, SAFe Agilist and SAFe RTE.
  • Validated capability leading & guiding within a release management team to manage and deliver continuous software releases, from scope definition through to live implementation.
  • Ability to foster collaboration across teams, manage dependencies, remove obstacles, and clearly communicate and debate ideas and plans.
  • Proven history of building trust with a team and stakeholders and driving continuous improvement towards strategic business goals.

Benefits

  • Professional development opportunities

Job title

Senior Release Train Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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