Black Rock Group
Release Train Engineer – Grand Rapids MI
The Release Train Engineer (RTE) is responsible for facilitating the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Agile Release Train (ART) processes and program execution, escalating impediments, managing risks, and helping drive program-level relentless improvement.
Responsibilities
Provide management and guidance for the Agile Release Train (ART) to ensure successful execution of Program Objectives.
Work with all team members and stakeholders to achieve alignment and collaborate with other RTEs to deliver program-level objectives across the business.
Drive delivery of train value, reporting on the value achieved, and provide broad oversight to ART capacity, budgets, and costs for valuation optimization.
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, guiding program execution, feature grooming, work breakdown, prioritization, estimation, team velocity, decision‑making, resourcing, and removal of impediments to deliver 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.
Qualifications
Comprehensive knowledge of or experience with an enterprise SAFe Agile process, including Kanban boards, user story writing, and burndown techniques.
Working experience with Azure DevOps required.
Excellent communication and mentoring skills; strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to express complex technical concepts in business terms.
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.
Strong analytical, problem solving, and conceptual skills.
May perform other duties as assigned or required.
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Responsibilities
Provide management and guidance for the Agile Release Train (ART) to ensure successful execution of Program Objectives.
Work with all team members and stakeholders to achieve alignment and collaborate with other RTEs to deliver program-level objectives across the business.
Drive delivery of train value, reporting on the value achieved, and provide broad oversight to ART capacity, budgets, and costs for valuation optimization.
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, guiding program execution, feature grooming, work breakdown, prioritization, estimation, team velocity, decision‑making, resourcing, and removal of impediments to deliver 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.
Qualifications
Comprehensive knowledge of or experience with an enterprise SAFe Agile process, including Kanban boards, user story writing, and burndown techniques.
Working experience with Azure DevOps required.
Excellent communication and mentoring skills; strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to express complex technical concepts in business terms.
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.
Strong analytical, problem solving, and conceptual skills.
May perform other duties as assigned or required.
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