Release Train Engineer

Summary: The Release Train Engineer will coach Agile Release Trains (ART) and facilitate the flow of value through various Agile practices. This role involves optimizing processes, supporting teams, and ensuring alignment with enterprise strategies. The engineer will also be responsible for facilitating PI planning and execution while promoting continuous improvement and collaboration across teams. The position is remote and requires specific SAFe certifications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coach with powerful questions
• Coach Scrum Masters/Team Coaches in ART and Team Events and practices
• Coach ART roles including system architects, product management, business owners, etc.
• Establish pull systems to optimize the flow of value
• Establish ART flow measures
• Improve the flow of value
• Facilitate value stream mapping
• Reduce or eliminate crossteam dependencies
• Drive ART relentless improvement plan and roadmap through AgilityInsights TeamHealth Assessments and Inspect & Adapt events
• Promote builtin quality practices in Coach, PO syncs and CoPs
• Collaborate with Value Management Office and LeanAgile transformation team
• Listen to and support teams in problem identification and decisionmaking
• Create an environment of mutual influence
• Understand and empathize with others
• Encourage and support the personal development of each individual and the development of teams
• Think beyond daytoday activities and apply systems thinking Support the teams commitments
• Be open and appreciate openness in others
• Comfortably be the face of the ART and excel at public speaking in front of large audiences.
• Help the ART Prepare for PI Planning (Logistics, ART backlog Readiness, WSJF, etc)
• Facilitate the 2day inperson PI planning event
• Coach alignment to Enterprise Strategy and cascaded OKRs
• Track progress; ART Predictability Measure; Velocity; Cycle Time, and other Flow metrics
• Facilitate ART synchronization events (Coach Sync, ART, Sync, Architect Sync, PO Sync, I&A, IP Iteration, System Demo)
• Support ART backlog refinement
• Promote DevOps and continuous delivery
• Assist Business Owners in understanding their role and assigning business value
• Coordinate planning efforts with other ARTs

Key Skills:

• SAFe Release Train Engineer 6.0 certification
• Scaled Agile Practice Consultant 6.0 Certification
• Agility Insights Facilitator Certification

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: USA

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT