Job Description:
Come join an exciting team within Global Information Security (GIS). Cyber Security Technology (CST) is a globally distributed team responsible for cyber security innovation and architecture, engineering, solutions and capabilities development, cyber resiliency, access management engineering, data strategy, deployment maintenance, technical project management and information technology security control support.
The Senior Release Train Engineer is an experienced servant leader, who is responsible for optimizing the flow of work and value delivered by the Identity & Authentication Services team by planning, orchestrating, and managing release events.
Key responsibilities:

• Promotes and coaches the Agile mindset and principles, enabling the organization to become high-performing as one cohesive team
• Coordination of release execution through defining cross-team dependencies ensuring a well-defined program/release schedule that meets organizational objectives.
• Creates, manages, and communicates release events to leadership team for upcoming release changes and provides post-release outcomes and actions.
• Drives the creation of a central release management tracking, reporting, approval, and escalation routines.
• Ensures impediments to delivery are resolved quickly, protects the teams from outside disruptions to delivery, and drives continuous improvement.
• Responsible for broad knowledge of the environments, tools, processes utilized by the various teams to develop, test, execute changes for the change requests.
• Partner with engineering, development, and testing teams to plan, execute, and deliver change initiatives into production ensuring risk control and production stability.

Required skills:

• 8+ years of active involvement in project management with strong track record of delivering projects/releases per expectations.
• 7+ years leading large scale transformation programs, involving business process and change
• 5+ years of Agile experience in a change agent role
• Strong understanding of Agile principles, concepts, and ceremonies.
• Adept at handling multiple tasks and pivots fluidly to support daily changing requirements
• Broad knowledge of the change policy, processes, environments, and tools as well as the risk control framework.
• Experience in Release Management
• Experience in SDLC life cycle process
• Experience in both technical and functional capacities.
• Solid Verbal and Written communication skills

Desired skills:

• SAFe SM & RTE certification
• Scrum, Kanban, and Lean Agile experience.
• Proficient with Jira, Confluence
• Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team
• Previous experience as a collaborative leader
• Excellent communication and mentoring

Enterprise Role Overview:
Responsible for optimizing the flow of epics/features and the value delivered by a complex/larger Agile Release Train (ART). Coordinates and facilitates the ART ceremonies, manages dependencies across teams in the ART, and provides visibility into the health of epic/feature delivery and the overall program increment. Ensures impediments to epic/feature delivery are resolved quickly, protects the teams from outside disruptions to delivery, and drives continuous improvement for the ART. Manages financials for the ART, assist with resource planning, and facilitate synch points between business and technology leaders. Acts as an Agile Coach, promoting and coaching the Agile mindset and principles, enabling the ART to become high-performing. Guides and coaches leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters in the ART on Agile practices, and develops their understanding of Agile principles. Helps define norms/agreements for the ART and enforces the agreements. Coordinates and facilitates ART ceremonies - e.g. Backlog Refinement, Program Increment (PI) Planning, ART Sync (or PO Sync, Scrum of Scrums), System Demos, Retrospective. In collaboration with the Product Manager, ensures the program has a healthy backlog and reviews demand versus capacity. Facilitates dependency management/risk management/impediment removal for the ART. Promotes/facilitates communication and collaboration within the ART to support value delivery and PI commitments. Responsible for providing status updates and reporting pertaining to ART plans/delivery/timelines/impediments to stakeholders and leadership. Ensures that execution is aligned with product strategy by working with Product Managers, Product Owners, and other stakeholders. Ensures Enterprise Change Management and other policy requirements for technology solutions are met for the epics/features delivered by the ART. Enables the ART to become high performing through collaboration and relentless focus on continuous improvement. Measures ART delivery, maturity, and performance and reviews the metrics with the ART to identify improvement opportunities. Captures data to help determine/track product funding and resource acquisition needs. Individual Contributor.
Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)
Hours Per Week:
40
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