Release Train Engineer

job summary:
Our West Michigan Client is looking for a Release Train Engineer for a long term project. This is a hybrid role onsite in West Michigan.

 
location: Grand Rapids, Michigan
job type: Solutions
salary: $65 - 80 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelors

responsibilities:
Job Duties

• 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.

qualifications:
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.

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.

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.

Demonstrable experience working within a defined DevOps process helping Teams to achieve efficient CICD practices.

Demonstrable experience defining and implementing new ways of working across a large team of teams.

Ability to champion for Development teams by maintaining a working understanding of how Development processes occur.

Demonstrated ability to change teams at a team of teams level

Ability to guide and improve processes

Experience running PI planning and speaking in front of large groups

Comfortable leading 15 or more teams in PI

Experience in a Grocery environment preferred

Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.

At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact View email address on randstadusa.com.


Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.