Release Train Engineer

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