Release Train Engineer Job Description
Release train engineer
provides guidance in Agile, Scrum, and SAFe and leads Agile delivery teams consisting of a mix of organization and possibly contractor/vendor staff.
Release Train Engineer Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Act as the Agile RTE/Scrum Master for Genomics Informatics scrum teams
Generate necessary Inspect and Adapt metrics for the scrum teams on the program
Support product owners with various requirements gathering and scrum activities as needed
Actively participate in guild(s) related to SAFe and related practices within Truven
Coach team members and other stakeholders in SAFe and Agile practices, as needed
Work with management to ensure smooth rollout of SAFe to the organization, including providing input and direction to help establish department standards and procedures
Help with team adoption of development industry and departmental best practices and processes related to SAFe
Provide release train engineer support services including, but not limited to, coordinating the teams from a product standpoint to help ensure that multiple teams working on the same release product and features plan and execute as a single release train, identifying and managing risks, facilitating release planning meetings, supporting the scrum of scrums, and resolving and escalating impediments
Facilitates ART level ceremonies such as PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, Sprint Demos, Inspect and Adapt
Be a goal driven program leader have a collaborative team-player attitude
Release Train Engineer Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Release Train Engineer
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: SPC, SA, RTE, SASM, CSM, CSPO, SAFE, CSP, PM, PO
Education for Release Train Engineer
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the release train engineer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Technical, Information Technology, Technology, Business, Management, Coaching, Religion, Financial Services, Architecture
Skills for Release Train Engineer
Desired skills for release train engineer include:
Microsoft Office products
Scrum
Kanban
Lean
XP
SAFe
SAFe structure and theories
Multiple Agile delivery frameworks
Compliance and risk management frameworks
Conflict resolution
Desired experience for release train engineer includes:
Experience using Rally and Clarity
Recent Ford experience working on Agile or Scaled Agile development projects/programs
Strong leadership, interpersonal, and collaborative skills
Experience with multiple SDLC methodologies (waterfall, unified, Agile)
Strong verbal and written communication skills, experience with senior management focused communications
BS degree in Technology Management, Business, Computer Science or similar
Release Train Engineer Examples
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Release Train Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking for a release train engineer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for release train engineer
- Mastery of complex facilitation and dependency management techniques (cross team, cross department)
- Drive cross team, ART and departmental impediments, planning, collaboration, and coordination
- Drive delivery and continuous improvement by utilizing feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc) to identify areas of opportunity
- Work across stakeholders and teams to continuously improve
- Understand domain architecture and upstream/downstream dependencies
- Stay current on domain architecture targets to support the program in risk management
- Provide regular and open communication across the program and stakeholders for transparency and awareness of progress and impediments
- Help establish governance structure where decision-making is weighted toward empowered teams
- SW development for 50% of the time
- Helps the team plan and meet their daily and iteration objectives
Qualifications for release train engineer
- 5+ years large/complex program software delivery/program management covering all aspect of SDLC
- 5+ years’ experience in managing complex software programs and services as a program manager, release train engineer or similar technical role in a software development environment
- Outstanding collaboration skills, prior experience working in a matrix and geographically distributed organization
- Highly organized and execution focused, accountable and driven
- Proven track record of shipping high quality products on-time
- Technical knowledge with a desired emphasis on current industry trends including cloud-based development and Agile development techniques
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Our growing company is looking to fill the role of release train engineer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for release train engineer
- Represent teams or facilitate Scrum of Scrums meeting to report impediments for escalation
- Advocate for Lean/Agile and engineering best practices
- Provide daily leadership and coaching to scrum masters, team members, and agile managers in the successful adoption and application of scaled agile practices
- Help\solve tech
- Lead large
- Manage and communicate appropriate release/PI calendars for business value delivered through the program
- Facilitate all appropriate planning sessions related to the managed release train(s)
- Facilitate tracking, coordination, and communication of dependencies
- Facilitate appropriate interlock sessions with appropriate stakeholders on a regular cadence
- Work with relevant stakeholders to help identify and remove impediments to flow
Qualifications for release train engineer
- 10+ years’ experience of broad IT experience
- High energy, strong product passion and strategic thinker
- Strong influencing skills and the ability to drive key decisions in a timely manner is critical
- Scrum Alliance CSM or CSP certification or PMI’s Agile Certified Professional (ACP)
- Agile or Professional Coaching certification
- SAFe certified or other scaled agile frameworks
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Our company is hiring for a release train engineer. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for release train engineer
- Work with Product Management, Product Owners, and other relevant stakeholders to ensure alignment between strategy/roadmap and execution
- Facilitate with system/solution demos as appropriate
- Actively participate in evaluation of potential peers and assisting with onboarding of new peers, as needed
- Participate fully in walkthroughs and process audits as required
- Working with team technical writers and other stakeholders, ensure appropriate technical documentation is produced and maintained at all points in the process
- Pursue continuous improvements based on lessons learned and evolving industry best practice
- Facilitates release planning readiness
- Act as an Execution lead closely partnering with the Product Manager & IT Delivery Owner to guide one agile release train
- The report shall be completed as needed and when requested by the assigned TOM or Program Manager
- Provide product management support services including, but not limited to, the development of business architectures, business/requirements analysis, and supporting and/or performing business/product owner functions for projects when requested by the assigned TOM or Program Manager at a sub task level
Qualifications for release train engineer
- Requires Bachelor's with 8+ years or Master's degree with 6+ or equivalent experience in a directly related of which 5+ in a leadership role is highly desired
- In-depth knowledge of IT concepts, strategies and methodologies and their application to business opportunities - will be working with teams focused on web services and internet portal for external customers
- Escalate urgent issues appropriately and driving them to resolution in a timely manner
- 10+ years of practical experience as part of full stack application development process (Agile release train ARTS)
- 3+ years of practical experience managing release trains under Agile preferably SAFe (Scale of Agile Framework)
- Understanding of offer strategy and ability to identify Solutions opportunities
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Our growing company is hiring for a release train engineer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for release train engineer
- Encourages team and subsystem level Continuous Integration and Testing and Communities of Practice around SAFe, Agile, and Lean system engineering
- This will be at the request of assigned TOM or Program Manager at a sub task level
- Drive continuous improvement via facilitating workshops
- Ensure that the Program has high visibility and understanding of the critical data for the release train – dependencies, issues and risks, Inspect & Adapt plans, train-level metrics, and communicates appropriately
- Identify, design and execute enhancements to USIS Program Management organization project, program and portfolio governance, discipline and best practices
- Co-ordinates and facilitates interactions with all shared services teams, including Release Management
- Ensures collaboration and dependency management within and between ARTs
- Monitors, manages and escalates impediments and risks across the ART
- Establishes the release schedule working with Management, Product Owners, and other stakeholders
- Facilitates the creation of the product and release backlogs by overseeing requirements analysis and ensuring each user story in the backlog is well written, sufficiently granular, and buildable
Qualifications for release train engineer
- Strong skills in communication, risk assessment, change management, stakeholder management, and the ability to influence and convince
- Experience working with external agencies/contracts to complete work streams
- Services based products
- Integrating ERP or Financial systems
- SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) Certification
- Knowledge and proven skills in Agile Project Management
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Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of release train engineer. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for release train engineer
- Assists with program execution and Product Implement feature completion tracking
- Escalates and attempts to resolve impediments
- Works with Product Owners to help assure strategy and execution alignment
- Gathers metrics and reports status to Management
- Assists execution and completion tracking via quantifiable metrics
- Strategy / Portfolio
- You will be responsible for facilitating Program Increment Readiness via fostering the preparation of Vision and Backlogs
- Build shippable product for solutions
- Responsible for leading Agile project coordination to support various upstream and downstream teams
- Introduce and help your team thrive in leveraging Test Driven Development, Test Automation and Continuous Delivery practices
Qualifications for release train engineer
- Strong project management of large implementation of platforms, ideally with an APAC remit
- Knowledge of the Loyalty industry is highly advantageous as is experience within the payments industry
- Effectively deal with difficult situations
- Minimum 7 - 10 years of professional work experience, with 6+ years of experience in a RTE role, and 5-6 years Data and Analytics Product Management experience or any combination of education and experience
- Previous experience with Metadata and Master Data projects and programs utilizing tools such as Podium, Infosphere, Governance Catalog, Web Portal, Collibra and/or Erwin
- Agile certifications (e.g., CSM, CSP, CSC, Scrum.org, ICAgile, PMI-ACP)