Release Train Engineer

Responsibilities

• Responsible for creating standard reporting, reflecting the business priorities and focus across multiple value streams with the direction of the Portfolio Managers as determined by the Director of the RMO


• Partners with the Portfolio Managers to fully understand investment targeted outcomes and to translate goals to OKRs and KPIs.


• Creates and drives SharePoint document site to drive performance measurement and management of investment value, outcomes, OKRs, KPIs, reporting out on progress.


• Create website for RMO team to share all reporting and value; PI plans and results for KPI's, OKR's, roadmaps, rosters per value stream and S3 value realization.


• Manages allocations of funds and resources, partnering with finance teams in forecasting/budgeting activities.


• Understands and plans to the interconnectedness of the value streams to maximize accomplishment of combined project outcomes.


• Coordinate regular PI Planning meetings to identify and coordinate interdependencies across teams.


• Tracks progress and coordinates new investment request intake processes.


• Communicate updates on strategy and value stream performance across the value streams via regular reporting.


• Responsible for team rostering and identification of conflicts and resolution on talent utilization.


• Acts as value stream point of contact for audit, finance, and risk needs


• Ensures capital activity tracking is accurate and up to date to support Finance, IT Leadership and Value Stream Owners


• Understands assumptions and risks of the various epics within value streams and communicate to appropriate stakeholders; Supports the identification/removal of barriers to delivery.


• Maximizes the value of the portfolio, in partnership with Finance, leveraging financial modeling to maximize the desired objectives.


• Partners with product management, web analytics, and finance to ensure optimal digital portfolio management against strategic goals.


• Maintain a deep knowledge of industry trends, advancements, and new capabilities.


• Collaborate with leadership to determine key areas of focus, need and opportunity in service of the strategy and portfolio.


• Provide consistent support, tools, and methods to project leaders for the completion of projects against defined objectives and key results (OKR's).

Specific Experience/Education/Certification Requirements

(Knowledge & Experience; Qualifications):

• Ability to assess skills, structure, and processes to deliver on our business objectives.


• Requires advanced knowledge of job area typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.


• Works independently with limited supervision

• Problems faced are difficult and sometimes complex


• Influences others regarding policies, practices and procedures


• Excellent communication skills


• Able to quickly learn and utilize software tools


• Ability to collaborate effectively on operations issues with internal business stakeholders, outside partners and technology teams


• Experience working with Agile teams that leverage agile frameworks such Scrum and Kanban; Scaled Agile experience preferred


• Experience working with technology teams and partnering with product teams.


• Experience with applying finance concepts (ex. NPV, ROI) in business decisions Proven success managing large scale enterprise program


• Bachelor's Degree in a related field or a degree in an unrelated field combined with additional suitable experience, Master's Degree desirable.


• Experience in business case development, needing to partner with a variety of partners and using data to make recommendations


• Experience in translating business goals and outcomes to technology and business lead


• 2 years of experience with digital project development, technologies, hardware and software management at the portfolio level


• Experience being a Scrum Master; CSM preferred


• SAFe Portfolio Management Certification or interest in attaining one


• Develop or configure document management system features, such as user interfaces, access profiles, and document workflow procedures


• Work with Training Manager, Quality Monitoring Manager, and Customer Service Leads to maintain relevant knowledge and training documentation


• Identify improvement opportunities and work with the Document Control and project teams to implement improvements


• Assist in the collation and distribution of document management reports for the client and project team


• Work with all delivery and support functional specialties to develop and measure conformance with process standards


• Complete weekly reports for the project managers and assist with progress reports


• Assist with the maintenance of the Electronic Document Management System