Release Train Engineer (HYBRID Schedule: Carmel, Indiana)

Company: TEKsystems Careers
Location: Carmel
Posted on: September 2, 2024

Job Description:

*ONSITE in Carmel, IN 2-3 days a week, Remote the rest!!*
*W2 ONLY, NO C2C*

• Long Term Contract*
• Job Description*
  This role is responsible for optimizing the flow of epics/features and the value delivered by a smaller Agile Release Train (ART), and is focused on serving the needs of the train to drive performance and growth. Key responsibilities include coordinating and facilitating the ART ceremonies, managing dependencies across teams in the ART, and providing visibility into the health of epic/feature delivery and the overall program increment. This role ensures impediments to epic/feature delivery are resolved quickly and protects the teams from outside disruptions to delivery. They manage financials for the ART and assist with resource planning. In addition, they promote and coach the Agile mindset and principles, empowering individual teams to become self-managing and fulfill their cross-functional potential.
  Responsibilities:
  
  
  • Guide and coach the teams on the Agile Release Train on Scrum practices, and develop their understanding of Agile principles.
  • Help define norms/agreements for the ART and enforce the agreements.
  • Coordinate and facilitate ART ceremonies (for example, Backlog Refinement, Program Increment (PI) Planning, ART Sync or PO Sync, Scrum of Scrums), System Demos, and Retrospective.
  • In collaboration with the Product Manager, ensure the program has a healthy product/program backlog.
  • Facilitate dependency management/risk management/impediment removal for the ART. ? Promote/facilitate communication and collaboration within the ART to support value delivery and PI commitment
  • Responsible for providing status updates and reporting pertaining to ART plans/delivery/timelines/impediments to stakeholders and leadership.
  • Ensure Enterprise Change Management and other policy requirements for technology solutions are met for the epics/features delivered by the ART.
  • Measure ART delivery, maturity, and performance and review the metrics with the ART to identify improvement opportunities.
  • Capture data to help determine/track product funding and resource acquisition needs.
  • Mentor more junior Scrum Masters
    Required Skills
    
    
    • 3+ years as a Release Train Engineer
    • Deep understanding of Lean Portfolio Management process and roles
    • Demonstrate deep understanding of Jira
    • Experience in defining norms/agreements for the Solution Train and enforces the agreements.
    • Proven experience coordinating and facilitating Solution Train ceremonies -e.g. Backlog Refinement, Pre-PI Planning, Post-PI Planning, Solution Train Sync, Architect Sync, Solution Demo, and Retrospective.
    • Proven ability to Promotes/facilitates communication and collaboration within the Solution Train to support value delivery and PI commitments.
    • Experience Measuring Solution Train delivery, maturity, and performance and reviews the metrics with the Solution Train to identify improvement opportunities.
    • Has provided guidance about how to create and manage an intake process, healthy backlog, and how to facilitate valuable Agile ceremonies within established guardrails.
    • Experience with teams to optimize implementation of Enterprise Agile standards and practices, and coaches team members through change.
      Desired Skills
      
      
      • Past experience to identify and resolve organizational impediments that impact team maturity and performance.
      • Facilitates discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution across teams, stakeholders, and executives; including external teams, business partners, and other Agile Release Trains/programs.
      • Influences and guides business and technology leaders on changes that enable Agility.
      • Facilitates significant improvements to the operating model and the end-to-end delivery process.
      • Establishes/leads Agile Communities of Practice and provides guidance in on-going activities
      • Experience Level:*
        Expert Level
        o Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms.--- If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:
        
        • Medical, dental & vision
        • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
        • 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
        • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
        • Short and long-term disability
        • Health Spending Account (HSA)
        • Transportation benefits
        • Employee Assistance Program
        • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
          About TEKsystems:
          
          We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.
          
          The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
          

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