Release Train Engineer - Digital E-Commerce team

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The Release Train Engineer (RTE) is responsible for facilitating the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Agile Release Training (ART) processes and program execution, escalating impediments, managing risks, and helping drive program-level relentless improvement on the Digital E-Commerce team.

This is a hybrid role, meaning you have to be willing to come into our Grand Rapids, MI office location Monday - Wednesday. Relocation Assistance is available to those who are willing to relocate to Michigan.

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What You’ll be Doing:

Provide management and guidance for the Agile Release Train (ART) relating to utilization of Agile practices and how to best ensure successful execution of Program Objectives.

Work with all team members and stakeholders to achieve alignment.

Collaborate with other RTE’s to ensure delivery of program level objectives across the business.

Driving delivery of train value and reporting on the value achieved.

Provides broad oversight to ART capacity, budgets, and costs to ensure valuation optimization including tracking, reporting, and communication to leadership.

Schedule and facilitate key train ceremonies including Pre- and Post- Program Increment (PI) planning, PI planning, Scrum of Scrums, and ART Sync meetings.

Continuously improve and facilitate innovation on the train by leveraging the Innovation and Planning Sprint, Inspect & Adapt, and Train Retrospectives.

Aggregate ART teams’ objectives into Program PI Objectives.

Provide Agile coaching to all members of the ART, as needed, to ensure proper program execution and program/feature grooming, including guidance on work breakdown for user stories, prioritization, estimation of work, evaluation of team velocity, decision-making, resourcing, removing impediments, and ultimately, delivery of value.

Assess the Scaled Agile maturity of the team and coach the team to attain higher levels of maturity.

Assist with internal and external communication and improve transparency of information and decisions.

This job profile is not intended to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position; may perform other duties as assigned or required

What You Bring with You (Qualifications):

Education:

Bachelor’s or equivalent combination of education and related experience, required.

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Organizational Management, Engineering, Business, or related field preferred.

Any Scrum Master certification.

Any SAFe certifications or training and experience.

SAFe Release Train Engineer training.

Experience:

Minimum of 8 years’ experience in an IT role, with a minimum of 3 years in SAFe Agile environment.

Experience performing the Scrum Master role for a minimum of one year.

Functional/Technical Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

Comprehensive knowledge of or experience with an enterprise SAFe Agile process. This includes tools and techniques, including Kanban boards, user story writing, burndown techniques, and retrospective facilitation.

Excellent communication and mentoring skills.

Team level experience collaborating to deliver business value.

Strong knowledge of Agile software development processes and techniques.

Familiarity with secure code design principles and practices.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills with an ability to express complex technical concepts in business terms.

Strong analytical, problem solving, and conceptual skills.

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