Agile Release Train Engineer

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The Ford Motor Credit Company team helps put people behind the wheels of great Ford and Lincoln vehicles. By partnering with dealerships we provide financing personalized service and professional expertise to thousands of dealers and millions of customers in over one hundred countries around the world.

In this position...

Ford Credit Digital Engineering is looking for a Release Train Engineer (RTE) specializing in both principle and practice with a strong foundational understanding of frameworks (SAFe Scrum etc.) and methodologies within Agile program management and delivery. As the RTE you will work to facilitate transparency across strategic initiatives portfolio performance and highly complex cross-team multi-effort programs. You will cultivate an environment of collaboration between parties in product design and engineering that promotes delivering high-impact and high-quality work. Your goal is to reduce the noise in the ecosystem and ensure smooth operations across dependent teams and systems.

This is a high-impact role that reports directly to the VP of Digital Engineering and will work closely with the extended leadership team. The person in this role will have the opportunity to influence the future of work at Ford Credit and effect a high degree of change across Ford Credit Digital Engineering teams. The primary customers for the role are engineering leaders product managers developers and supporting teams within Ford Credit. The right candidate will understand that sustainable operational excellence is about habit-stacking and will have the proficiency to help teams and people grow through their entire agile journey (not just police a framework).

• Lead by example by demonstrating our Ford OS Behaviors of Excellence Focus and Collaboration. The Ford Operating System (OS) provides the rigor discipline and clarity needed to continuously improve and stay ahead of our competition.
• Conduct Agile Release Train operationsby serving as the chief coordinator for one or more ARTs orchestrating all SAFe events including PI Planning System Demos Inspect & Adapt workshops and ART Syncs to ensure predictable delivery and continuous improvement.
• Support PI execution by leveraging JIRA Confluence and other related tools ensuring data integrity establishing workflows that track portfolio progress facilitating cross-team alignment and addressing any impediments beyond a teams control.
• Enable Lean Portfolio Managementby coordinating the portfolio intake and prioritization process establishing guardrails for PI commitments monitoring value stream health and flow metrics and providing transparent portfolio-level reporting to stakeholders.
• Scale agile practices across multiple teamsby standardizing processes facilitating cross-ART collaboration sessions sharing best practices and working with the Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) to drive consistency and continuous improvement across the organization.
• Foster a performance-oriented cultureby applying an empirical approach to relentless improvement through transparency inspection and adaption. This involves creating a shared vision of success establishing standards tracking meaningful metrics setting improvement goals facilitating retrospectives and coaching teams individual contributors and leaders.

Youll have...

• 8 years experience in an agile position (RTE Scrum Master Agile Coach) engineering delivery management technical program management product management engineering or related area.
• Experience and demonstrated understanding of multiple modern delivery practices in Agile Lean DevOps Product and Portfolio Management etc.
• Extensive experience using managing and supporting teams with application lifecycle management (ALM) tools such as Jira Confluence etc.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills with the ability to influence the enterprise.

Even better you may have...

• 10 years experience in an agile position (RTE Scrum Master Agile Coach) engineering delivery management technical program management product management engineering or related area.
• Previous industry experience in software development at a Finance FinTech and/or Automotive company.
• Relevant industry certifications from institutions like PMP SAFe Scrum Alliance ICAgile LCM etc.
• A technical background with the ability to empathize with engineers and understand high-level technical challenges.
• Experience managing complex programs with solutions relying on cloud-native technologies and service-oriented or SaaS based solutions.

You may not check every box or your experience may look a little different from what weve outlined but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe or keep you close to home Will your career be a deep dive into what you love or a series of new teams and new skills Will you be a leader a changemaker a technical expert a culture builderor all of the above No matter what you choose we offer a work life that works for you including:

Immediate medical dental vision and prescription drug coverage

Flexible family care days paid parental leave new parent ramp-up programs subsidized back-up child care and more

Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement fertility treatments and more

Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases

Tuition assistance

Established and active employee resource groups

Paid time off for individual and team community service

A generous schedule of paid holidays including the week between Christmas and New Years Day

Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

For more information on salary and benefits click here: position is a range of salary grades 5-8 .

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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