Release Train Engineer

Release Train Engineer

Our Client, a multinational telecommunications technology company has an urgent and immediate need for a Release Train Engineer in Plano, TX drive program/release level processes for an Agile Release Train demonstrating stellar servant leadership, coupled with domain knowledge and technical savvy.

Responsibilities:

- Project Planning and Continuous Improvement: Assist in project planning activities, such as creating timelines and resource allocation plans, while continuously seeking opportunities to improve requirements management/user stories processes and tools.
- Mentor and coach Agile Release Train on Agile/Lean/SAFe principles. Escalate impediments, manage risks, dependencies and resourcing needs.
- Facilitate Program Increment planning meetings with leadership, business stakeholders, and product management and delivery teams on the Agile Release Train(s). Requirements Gathering and Documentation: Collaborate with stakeholders to elicit, analyze, document, and maintain detailed business and technical requirements (Waterfall methodology) or user stories (Agile methodology).
- Stakeholder Communication and Liaison: Act as a liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams to ensure clear understanding, alignment of project goals, and effective communication throughout the project lifecycle.
- Validation, Verification, and Quality Assurance: Coordinate and participate in testing and UAT activities to ensure requirements/user stories are accurately implemented and final deliverables meet business requirements and quality standards.
- Change and Risk Management: Manage changes to requirements/user stories, assess their impact on project scope, timeline, and resources, and identify and mitigate related risks.
- Facilitate PI Planning readiness by fostering a Continuous Exploration process which drives the synthesis of a Vision, a Roadmap, and Backlogs, and through Pre- and Post-PI Planning meetings.

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Required Skills

Required Skills:

- Has over Four (4) years of experience working as a Release Train Engineer, Five (5) years of experience working as a Scrum Master and Five (5) years and as a Project Manager.
- Extensive understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Waterfall, Agile Scrum and Rational Unified Process (RUP).
- Experience in facilitating Sprint Ceremonies (Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective) for each of the Agile SCRUM methodology sprints as a SCRUM master.
- Expertise in handling SCRUM artifacts (Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Sprint Burn Down chart
- Knowledge of Agentic AI and autonomous AI systems that can act independently to achieve pre-determined goals without constant human oversight.

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