Release Train Engineer

Release Train Engineer

Pittsburgh, PA (Hybrid, Onsite 3 days/week)

7 months Contract to Hire

Supporting Enterprise Compliance Engineering Group. Majority of the work is related to Financial Crimes - Actimize, anti-money laundering (AML) and smaller crimes sanctions. This group supports the development and maintenance of products and processes for prevention and detection. RTEs will focus on the execution and delivery of projects and programs within Enterprise Compliance domain.

Required Skills:

• 10-15 years of Program and Project delivery experience (last 4-5 years in RTE role)
• Experience managing large projects and programs - $10 million + dollars
• Understanding of technology, software development & delivery
• Experience utilizing JIRA for Agile tracking/planning (expert)
• Expertise in Scaled Agile delivery
• Scaled Agile certified

Job Description:

• Facilitates process and execution and drive a culture of continuous improvement and integration by fostering community of practice.
• Lead and/or participate in lean-agile transformations, coach leadership, and other teams in agile mindsets and new processes. They act as a servant leader and coach for the Agile Release Train (ART) or product.
• They work with the Agile Program Management Office on program execution and operational excellence and understand and operate within Lean Budgets to ensure adherence to Guardrails
• Facilitates the development events, process and execution. They help ensure value delivery, and help drive a culture of continuous improvement.
• Coach leaders, teams and Scrum Masters in SAFe, agile mindsets and new processes.
• Manage and optimize the flow through the program
• Work with Product and Solution Management, Product Owners, and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment
• Facilitate the PI planning event. Summarize Team PI Objectives into Program PI Objectives and publish them for visibility and transparency
• Escalate and track impediments. Help manage risks and dependencies and report status
• Improve the flow of value through value streams by improving and assessing the practices associated with DevOps and Release on Demand in the Continuous Delivery Pipeline
• Facilitate System Demos Drive relentless improvement via Inspect and Adapt workshops; assess the agility level of the ART and help them improve Foster Communities of Practice and the use of engineering and Built-In Quality practices

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following expertise:

• 10-15+ years of overall experience
• Expertise in playing the Release Train Engineer role for large initiatives, programs or Agile Release Trains
• Strong knowledge of Lean-Agile principles, practices, frameworks, and method
• Effective facilitation and teaching methods
• Coaching and mentoring approaches, including the distinction between the two
• Ability to drive decisions and resolve conflicts across multiple parties
• Experience successfully running agile projects of varying size and complexity
• Preferred to have Agile certifications including SAFe RTE, SPC, CSM.