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Release Train Engineer/Manager

Position Purpose

As a Global Payments Release Train Engineer/Manager you will be responsible for leading a group of Agile Teams considered a product comprised of multiple cross-functional agile teams collaborating on some of Globals biggest and most important development initiatives. You will work with the business and development teams to turn vision into reality and will be the central point of contact for your Product. You will identify needs and will contribute as necessary to ensure the performance and success of the Product agile short you will be the ultimate servant leader accountable for maximizing the value provided by the Product including throughput anddelivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead agile processes across a grouping of Product Agile Teams who operated with a variety of Agile processes.
• Manage and facilitate cross-functional team coordination to support development and product market releases.
• Lead release planning sessions to establish scope and build release plans for Program Increments (PI).
• Collaborate with Portfolio Managers to understand and shape the definition of portfolio programs assess progress/health and report metrics.
• Collaborate with Product managers and Enterprise Architects to understand program backlog features and drive product delivery.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Scrum Masters (for teams with SMs) to understand prioritized stories and support team delivery.
• Facilitate program level Scrum of Scrums and retrospectives.
• Partner with stakeholders for continuous improvement.
• Protect the Product and aggressively remove impediments that block progress.
• Ensure Product events are successful.
• Ensure a continual fast flow of high quality value from the Prodcut.
• Foster team accountability.
• Provide performance management feedback at the individual contributor and team levels.
• Participate in the team member interview process.
• Advocate and evolve Globals Scaled Agile Framework.
• Monthly reporting.
• Financial monitoring and reporting.

Skills

• Demonstrate servant leadership to serve and develop agile teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group including executives managers and subject matter experts.
• Ability to perform as a change agent to promote adherence to Globals Scaled Agile Framework.
• Ability to apply critical thinking to delivery progress risks and issues in order to establish the direction for resolution oversee the resolution plan and represent status/impacts to key stakeholders.
• Persuasive encouraging and motivating.
• Ability to understand company strategies product strategies and key performance indicators to support maximizing the value provided by Agile Teams.
• Ability to resolve conflict among participants.
• Ability to give and receive constructive feedback in the spirit of continuous delivery excellence.
• Promote a continuous improvement culture across the Product team members and contributing delivery resources.
• Demonstrate Globals Scaled Agile Framework values of innovation integrity excellence and courage.

Education/Certification

• Bachelors or Master degree preferred (in Business Computer Science Engineering or related field) or equivalent experience

Experience Required

• Three plus years program management experience with the following areas of focus:
  • Projects/Programs with financial and business impacts
  • IT environment managing complex multi-site projects with cross-functional teams using both agile and traditional project practices
  • Collaborations with business and IT leadership to set direction and drive project execution
  • Managing senior leadership project and program collaborations and communications
  • Large central and distributed application implementations
  • Client technical conversions
  • Startup or significantly expanded product implementation
  • 3 years experience as a Project Manager Scrum Master Product Owner or similar responsibilities on Agile teams
  • 3 years experience implementing and working with Lean Agile Scrum Scaled Agile or other similar agile methodologies
  • Jira experience

Desirable Experience

• Expertise in Jira Confluence and Jira Discovery
• Agile Certifications: SAFe PMI etc
• RTE Certification
• Scrum Master
• High volume payment transaction processing environments and products

What we prepared for you:

A wide range of corporate benefits:

• annual bonus
• 5 weeks of holiday
• 5 additional days off meal tickets - fully paid by the employer (123-CZK/per worked day)
• Benefit Plus package in the amount of CZK 18000 per year / possibility to use for health relaxation education or vacation /
• pension insurance contribution /2500 CZK monthly/
• home office and flexible working time
• Soulmio a mental health care programme
• uLékaře a health care support)

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