Required Skills: Release Train Engineer/ART, Transformation, Planning, Solution Train, Backlog, ART ceremonies, Pre-PI Planning, Post-PI Planning, Solution Train Sync, Architect Sync, Solution Demo, Retrospectives, Agile/SAFe, Jira, SPC

Description:

• An Excellent Opportunity for Release Train Engineer/Solution Train Engineer to work with "Fortune 100" clients in Plano, TX and Richmond, VA

Job Description

• This role is responsible for optimizing the flow of epics/features and the value delivered by a smaller Agile Release Train (ART) and is focused on serving the needs of the train to drive performance and growth.
• Key responsibilities include coordinating and facilitating ART ceremonies, managing dependencies across teams in the ART, and providing visibility into the health of epic/feature delivery and the overall program increment.
• The role ensures impediments to epic/feature delivery are resolved quickly and protects teams from outside disruptions to delivery. Additionally, it involves managing financials for the ART and assisting with resource planning.
• The position also promotes and coaches the Agile mindset and principles, empowering individual teams to become self-managing and achieve their cross-functional potential.

Responsibilities:

• Guide and coach teams within the Agile Release Train on Scrum practices and develop their understanding of Agile principles.
• Help define norms/agreements for the ART and enforce them.
• Coordinate and facilitate ART ceremonies, such as Backlog Refinement, Program Increment (PI) Planning, ART Sync or PO Sync, Scrum of Scrums, System Demos, and Retrospectives.
• Collaborate with the Product Manager to ensure a healthy product/program backlog.
• Facilitate dependency management, risk management, and impediment removal for the ART. Promote and facilitate communication and collaboration within the ART to support value delivery and PI commitment.
• Provide status updates and reporting on ART plans, delivery timelines, and impediments to stakeholders and leadership.
• Ensure compliance with Enterprise Change Management and other policy requirements for technology solutions delivered by the ART.
• Measure ART delivery, maturity, and performance, and review metrics with the ART to identify improvement opportunities.
• Capture data to help determine and track product funding and resource acquisition needs.
• Mentor junior Scrum Masters.

Primary Skill:

• Release Train Engineer (RTE)

Secondary Skill:

• Agile tools (Jira)

Required Skills:

• 5-7+ years of experience as a Release Train Engineer.
• Demonstrated expertise in Jira.
• Experience in defining and enforcing norms/agreements for the Solution Train.
• Proven experience coordinating and facilitating Solution Train ceremonies such as Backlog Refinement, Pre-PI Planning, Post-PI Planning, Solution Train Sync, Architect Sync, Solution Demo, and Retrospectives.
• Proven ability to promote and facilitate communication and collaboration within the Solution Train to support value delivery and PI commitments.
• Experience providing guidance on creating and managing an intake process, maintaining a healthy backlog, and facilitating valuable Agile ceremonies within established guardrails.
• Experience working with teams to optimize the implementation of Enterprise Agile standards and practices and coaching team members through change.
• Proven ability to identify and resolve organizational impediments that impact team maturity and performance.
• Experience facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution across teams, stakeholders, and executives, including external teams, business partners, and other Agile Release Trains/programs.
• Ability to influence and guide business and technology leaders on changes that enable agility.
• Experience facilitating significant improvements to the operating model and the end-to-end delivery process.
• Experience establishing and leading Agile Communities of Practice and providing guidance in ongoing activities.
• Scaled Agile Certified SPC 5.0.

Desired Skills:

• Ability to manage and communicate with teams located across the globe in different time zones.
• Ability to manage multiple programs/projects and work with multiple RTEs to deliver shared success.