Randstad Digital Americas ยท 7 hours ago
Release Train Engineer
Grand Rapids, MI
Contract
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$55/hr - $65/hr
8+ years expRandstad Digital Americas is seeking a Release Train Engineer for a long-term contract opportunity. The role involves providing management and guidance for the Agile Release Train while ensuring successful execution of program objectives and facilitating collaboration among team members and stakeholders.
Information Technology & Services
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
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's or equivalent combination of education and related experience
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
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
Preferred
Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Organizational Management, Engineering, Business, or related field
Experience in a Grocery Environment
Benefits
Medical
Prescription
Dental
Vision
AD&D
Life insurance offerings
Short-term disability
401K plan
Company
Randstad Digital Americas
Randstad Digital is a trusted digital enablement partner that facilitates accelerated transformation for businesses by providing global talent, capacity, and solutions across specialized domains.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Graig Paglieri
CEO, Randstad Digital Americas
Pascal de Hesselle
SVP, Executive Client Partner - Technology, Media & Telecom
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