Job description
Role : Release Train Engineer (only USC or GC Candidates)
Location : Chicago IL (LOCALS ONLY)
Work Type : W2 / 1099
Top 35 IT Skillsets:
Minimum 5 years of indepth experience in delivery of enterprise level software or hardware solutions
- Experience as an RTE or scrum master
- Strong understanding of Agile principles and mindset
- Strong analytical abilities negotiation/presentation skills and organizational/planning abilities
- Strong leadership coaching facilitation decisionmaking and management skills
- Problemsolving skills and ability to coach others to solve their problems
- Strong written and verbal communication
Qualifications (must haves):
- Minimum 5 years of indepth experience in delivery of enterprise level software or hardware solutions
- Experience as an RTE or scrum master
- Strong understanding of Agile principles and mindset
- Strong analytical abilities negotiation/presentation skills and organizational/planning abilities
- Strong leadership coaching facilitation decisionmaking and management skills
- Problemsolving skills and ability to coach others to solve their problems
- Strong written and verbal communication
- Ability to lead teams to reach consensus and have passion for product and value delivery
- Creative able to use knowledge gained through prior experience education and training to resolve issues and remove delivery barriers
- Ability to establish and maintain positive working relationships with business and represent accurately the perspective of Technology
- Expert in Azure DevOps tool. Able to set up new ART/Teams structure templates queries dashboards etc.
- Ability to work productively with all levels in a large organization
Education and Experience:
- Bachelors degree or equivalent educational or professional experience and qualifications
- 510 years of relevant work experience in a leadership role
- Three or more years of experience with Agile methods especially scaling frameworks (SAFe SoS LeSS etc.)
- Proven expertise in managing the delivery of midtolarge digital or enterprise applications
- Ability to understand and relate to the business objectives
- Experience working with distributed teams: internal teams and offshore vendor teams
Nice to have:
- SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE) or other Scaled Agile certifications a plus
- Experience with leading or supporting an agile transformation
- Financial Services or other regulated industry experience a plus
- ICAgile certifications a plus
- Extensive experience with Agile engineering practices and techniques
Tasks & Responsibilities:
- Manage and optimize the flow of value through the ART using various tools such as the Program Kanban and other information radiators
- Facilitate PI Planning readiness by fostering a Continuous Exploration process which drives the synthesis of a Vision a Roadmap and Backlogs
- Facilitate the PI planning event. Facilitate periodic synchronization events including the ART Sync. Facilitate System Demos
- Facilitate feature and capability estimation by teams
- Improve the flow of value through the Value Stream by improving practices associated with DevOps and Release on Demand in the Continuous Delivery Pipeline
- Summarize the Team PI Objectives into Program PI Objectives and publish them for visibility and transparency
- Assist tracking the execution of features and epics
- Capture analyze and publish appropriate team and program metrics that drive and guide delivery decisions
- Build and manage timely communication channels with leadership business stakeholders and delivery teams
- Help teams manage risks and dependencies; escalate and track impediments; provide input on resourcing to address critical bottlenecks
- Work with Product Management Product Owners and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment. Encourage collaboration between teams