Release Train engineer

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Ayvens, a subsidiary of Société Générale Group specializing in automotive financial services, is the European leader in Operational Vehicle Leasing. Its range of services enables companies, both in France and abroad, to focus on their core business by entrusting the financing, management, and maintenance of their vehicle fleets. 

The Holding is responsible to support the development of the group in 42 countries. It brings a business support and sometime a technical support by coordinating the subsidiaries and by creating synergies.

The Remarketing department is in charge to deploy and maintain an ecosystem around e-commerce platforms to ease the used car recycling. To do that, the department maintain notably:

• an e-commerce website dedicated to B2B and its mobile application
• some e-commerce websites dedicated to B2C
• a SalesForce-based CRM with strong links to the B2B platform for customer management
• a SalesForce-based CRM to manage customers and to resell used vehicles to B2C customers
• some Back-Office tools to industrialize vehicle resale processes
   

Description

Organized in Squad (or feature team) the Remarketing department is well advance to apply agile methodologies such like Scrum and has adapted its organization at scale by being inspired by Safe.

Your role, as release train engineer will be to support the Squads by ensuring the respect of the process and the methodology in each squad thanks to your management role on the Scrum Masters. You will be also responsible to ease the full delivery process from the framing of the Epic till the development and the delivery on production.

You will work in an international context managing scrum masters based in different areas (collocated with their team) indirectly managing a team around 40 people including developers. You will report to Benjamin in charge of the delivery and you will work in close collaboration with all the streams from the department (architecture, devops, product team, management etc…)

In details, you will notably:

• Participate to the framing at the EPIC / Feature level
• monitor the roadmap, the progress and adjust or ease the process to identify and remove impediments
• Monitor the delivery for each squad
• Facilitate some ceremonies if required
• Ensure the right framing for each feature with an iterative approach
• Validate the slicing in Feature / User story
• Troubleshooter, Support, Coach the team
• Track progress thanks to KPI
• Manage Scrum masters
• Coach the teams (PO, dev, archi, management…) to accompany the department in the transformation and spread an agile mindset
• Define and build the methodology at the department scale

Why to join us: 

• Flexibility: Flexible hours + 2 to 3 days of telecommuting per week
• Mobility: A green transport package of up to €700 per year
• Catering: Canteen on site or meal vouchers
• Childcare: Possibility of obtaining places in crèches thanks to our partnership with the Babilou crèches
• Car rental: 20% discount on our car rental offers
• International: You will evolve on a daily basis in an international environment
• Evolution : You will join a fast-growing international team offering you many prospects for development

Profile

• With an engineering degree or equivalent
• You have a good level of written and spoken English.
• Good communication skills, a sense of responsibility and analytical skills are required to support the team by acting as a troubleshooter or coach with a high adaptability.
• An innovative mindset is essential to propose any necessary changes to the team's organization as part of a continuous improvement process.
• Understanding and analyzing risks will be essential, particularly with regard to compliance with regulations, safety and production operations.
• A significative experience in team management and at least as Scrum Master is required.
• Certification about Scrum / Safe could be appreciated.

Why Ayvens?  

With over 3.3 million vehicles managed across more than 44 countries, we provide full-service leasing, flexible subscription services, fleet management services and multi-mobility solutions to customers of all sizes, including large corporates, SMEs, professionals, and private individuals. By leveraging our unique position to lead the way to net zero and further shape the digital transformation of the industry, we are well-positioned to meet the evolving mobility needs of our clients and provide them with the solutions they need to thrive.

At Ayvens, we believe that our success is driven by our commitment to customer satisfaction. Our team is dedicated to delivering innovative solutions and technology-enabled services that help our customers focus on their everyday business. We’re committed to sustainable mobility and have made it a core part of our strategy. In everything we do, we’re guided by the principles of authenticity, curiosity, commitment and collaboration. We aim to foster an organisation that's diverse in people and ideas, where everyone can thrive and be themselves, no matter who they are.

Join us on this exciting journey as we continue to enable the transformation towards large scale adoption of sustainable mobility and provide our customers with the solutions they need to succeed. Follow our page for the latest updates, news, and insights.

*ALD Automotive | LeasePlan are rebranding to Ayvens across all 44 countries by 2025.