Job Description Summary

Release Train Engineer (RTE) provides guidance in Agile, Scrum, and SAFe and leads Agile delivery teams consisting of a mix of organization and possibly contractor/vendor staff. The core of the Release Train Engineer (RTE) role is to coordinate, track and report on the status of an engineering product release. RTEs work jointly with stakeholders to create a clear plan for a product release, convey that plan to stakeholders and then track to ensure successful delivery.

Release train engineers (RTEs) have an important role in Agile Release Trains (ARTs). By supervising the ART, they help ensure teams develop quality solutions that contribute to project success. Learning about RTEs can help you decide if choosing this career path might enable you to reach your goals.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Maintain the plan of record for a release

• Track status, maintaining dashboards and reports.

• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure product features are delivered.

• Monitor progress to ensure application releases are delivered on time and within budget.

• Communicate status to all stakeholders.Be the point of contact for the product allowing scrum teams to focus on execution.

• Manage risks and resolve issues that affect release scope, schedule, or quality

• Manage the release backlog; continuously order and prioritize

• Engage frequently with the scrum teams to review progress, facilitate action resolution, remove impediments

• Prioritize continuously in accordance with the understanding and validation of customer problems and needs

• Coordinate with Services and support to schedule resolution of issues with released product (PS)

• Conduct Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews

• Maintain a release repository and manages key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists

• Continually work towards making improvements in the release process

• Managing the ART flow of value, or steps used to create value for the project

• Coordinating and aligning ART activities with the organization's strategic goals

• Implementing PI planning events and monitoring their progress

• Encouraging teams within the ART to collaborate on certain tasks to meet goals

• Promoting improvement through inspect and adapt (I&A) events after PI completions

• Helping keep the ART productive by ensuring the use of lean-Agile processes

Education Qualification

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with minimum 5 years of experience.

Business Acumen:

• Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems

• Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts

• Demonstrates awareness about competitors and industry trends

• Has the ability to analyze impact of technology choices

Other Skills:

• Ability to takes ownership of small and medium sized tasks and deliver while mentoring and helping team members

• Ensures understanding of issues and presents clear rationale. Able to speak to mutual needs and win-win solutions. Uses two-way communication to influence outcomes and ongoing results

• Identifies misalignments with goals, objectives, and work direction against the organizational strategy. Makes suggestions to course correct

• Continuously measures deliverables of self and team against scheduled commitments. Effectively balances different, competing objectives

Personal Attributes:

• Strong oral and written communication skills

• Strong interpersonal skills

• Effective team building and problem solving abilities

• Persists to completion, especially in the face of overwhelming odds and setbacks. Pushes self for results; pushes others for results through team spirit

Note

Note:

To comply with US immigration and other legal requirements, it is necessary to specify the minimum number of years' experience required for any role based within the USA. For roles outside of the USA, to ensure compliance with applicable legislation, the JDs should focus on the substantive level of experience required for the role and a minimum number of years should NOT be used.

This Job Description is intended to provide a high level guide to the role. However, it is not intended to amend or otherwise restrict/expand the duties required from each individual employee as set out in their respective employment contract and/or as otherwise agreed between an employee and their manager.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes