Job Summary
Our West Michigan Client has a contract to hire opportunity for a Release Train Engineer (RTE) who will be 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. This is a hybrid role onsite M, T, W in Grand Rapids, MI.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Skills
- Release Train Engineer ( 1 years required)
- Scrum Master ( 5 years required)
- DevOps ( 1 years required)
- SAFe Agile ( 1 years required)
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