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Job Description
Our client, a leading Financial Services organization, is seeking a Release Train Engineer to support an Application Transformation program. The program will involve Business Process Digitization (BPD) Scrum Teams ("the ART") consisting of developers, analysts, testers, integrators and Scrum Masters, with the goal to re-platform/transform IBM/BPM legacy applications onto a cloud based Pega Platform.
Responsibilities
• Act as a galvanizing force for sharing Agile and SAFe knowledge across the ART
• Organize and manage the overall backlog, provide direction, and facilitate the sequencing of work across the ART to efficiently manage the overall development and the fixed resource utilization
• Assists the ART communication and coordination with stakeholders and customers during feature definition and delivery across multiple application transformation initiatives
• Coach leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets.
• Drive cross team, ART, and departmental impediments, planning, collaboration, and coordination.
• Drive delivery and continuous improvement by utilizing feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc.) to identify areas of opportunity.
• Facilitating the ART team's refinement of features to be considered in the next PI planning cycle to meet the Feature Definition of Ready.
• Lead project teams and provide and leadership; act as consultant/coach to management in resolving unusually difficult problems.
• Manage program level coordination, such as creating timelines, milestones, and cadence of increments and releases and oversee the development of reports and analyses that document program activity.
• Managing change to the ART's PI plan and the impacts of those changes.
• Participate with management and cross-functional teams as subject matter expert to develop and improve operating policies and procedures related to Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and be an advocate in adopting Agile and SAFe best practices and processes.
• Provide regular and open communication across the program and stakeholders for transparency and awareness of progress and impediments.
• Support the configuration of SAFe to the needs of the organization, standardizing and documenting practices.
• Understand, visualize and manage upstream/downstream dependencies.
• Work across stakeholders and teams to continuously improve.
• Working with the ART team who prioritizes the features to be considered in the next program increment (PI) planning cycle.
Required Skills:
• 8 years agile team facilitation experience
• SAFe 5 or latest certification
• Experience on multiple Scrum teams in a variety of different contexts (different team sizes, different organizations, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc.)
• Some knowledge of development environments, platforms, and technologies
• Well versed in a variety of agile approaches (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Lean at a minimum)
• Experience providing program, portfolio and team level process, mentoring and coaching to senior leadership, portfolio managers and teams
• Experience with ad-hoc coaching and mentoring techniques
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Responsibilities
• Act as a galvanizing force for sharing Agile and SAFe knowledge across the ART
• Organize and manage the overall backlog, provide direction, and facilitate the sequencing of work across the ART to efficiently manage the overall development and the fixed resource utilization
• Assists the ART communication and coordination with stakeholders and customers during feature definition and delivery across multiple application transformation initiatives
• Coach leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets.
• Drive cross team, ART, and departmental impediments, planning, collaboration, and coordination.
• Drive delivery and continuous improvement by utilizing feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc.) to identify areas of opportunity.
• Facilitating the ART team's refinement of features to be considered in the next PI planning cycle to meet the Feature Definition of Ready.
• Lead project teams and provide and leadership; act as consultant/coach to management in resolving unusually difficult problems.
• Manage program level coordination, such as creating timelines, milestones, and cadence of increments and releases and oversee the development of reports and analyses that document program activity.
• Managing change to the ART's PI plan and the impacts of those changes.
• Participate with management and cross-functional teams as subject matter expert to develop and improve operating policies and procedures related to Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and be an advocate in adopting Agile and SAFe best practices and processes.
• Provide regular and open communication across the program and stakeholders for transparency and awareness of progress and impediments.
• Support the configuration of SAFe to the needs of the organization, standardizing and documenting practices.
• Understand, visualize and manage upstream/downstream dependencies.
• Work across stakeholders and teams to continuously improve.
• Working with the ART team who prioritizes the features to be considered in the next program increment (PI) planning cycle.
Required Skills:
• 8 years agile team facilitation experience
• SAFe 5 or latest certification
• Experience on multiple Scrum teams in a variety of different contexts (different team sizes, different organizations, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc.)
• Some knowledge of development environments, platforms, and technologies
• Well versed in a variety of agile approaches (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Lean at a minimum)
• Experience providing program, portfolio and team level process, mentoring and coaching to senior leadership, portfolio managers and teams
• Experience with ad-hoc coaching and mentoring techniques
#LI-DD
#DICE
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