Release Train Engineer

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Job Title: DevOps Release Train Engineer

Location: St. Louis, MO

Duration: 6+ months

Experience: 7+ years

Key responsibilities include:

Agile Release Train (ART) Leadership and Facilitation:

· Establish, mature, and facilitate ART events and practices, including PI Planning, System Demos, and Inspect & Adapt workshops

· Collaborate with Product Management, System Architect, and Business Owners to ensure effective ART leadership

· Coordinate activities across multiple agile teams, including CI/CD pipeline, AWS cloud, Splunk logging and monitoring, and DDP teams

· Support Scrum Masters/Team Coaches in removing impediments and promoting continuous improvement

PI Planning and Execution:

· Prepare the ART for PI planning, ensuring readiness in continuous exploration, ART backlog alignment, and event logistics

· Facilitate the PI Planning event, including opening the event, introducing speakers, conducting Coach Syncs, and overseeing plan reviews

· Support PI execution by maintaining progress, facilitating ART events, and supporting ART backlog refinement

· Promote DevOps and continuous delivery practices across the ART

Coaching and Servant Leadership:

· Adopt a servant leadership approach, supporting teams to become self-organizing and self-managing

· Coach ART roles, including Business Owners, System Architects, and Product Managers

· Use powerful questions to encourage deeper reflection and self-discovery among team members and leaders

· Create an environment where everyone on the ART can share challenges openly

Stakeholder Management and Communication:

· Communicate program status, achievements, and challenges to leadership and stakeholders

· Coordinate planning efforts with other ARTs when necessary

· Assist Business Owners in economic decision-making and operating within Lean Budgets

Flow Optimization:

· Establish and maintain the ART Kanban system to ensure smooth value flow

· Implement and monitor all five SAFe flow metrics across the ART: Flow Distribution, Flow Velocity, Flow Time, Flow Efficiency, Flow Predictability

· Use flow metrics to identify bottlenecks, guide decision-making, and drive continuous improvement

· Facilitate value stream mapping to identify and address delays and inefficiencies in the development process

· Work to reduce or eliminate cross-team dependencies that impede flow

· Collaborate with teams to establish and refine WIP limits that optimize flow and quality

· Coach teams and stakeholders on interpreting flow metrics and using them to guide improvements

· Regularly report on flow metrics to ART leadership and stakeholders, highlighting trends and opportunities for optimization

· Align flow optimization efforts with the overall goals of the DevOps toolchain and the organization's strategic objectives

Continuous Improvement:

· Drive relentless improvement through Inspect and Adapt workshops and just-in-time improvements

· Leverage SAFe core competency assessments to increase mastery of Lean-Agile practices

· Collaborate with the Community of Practice (CoP) and other leaders to align with broader transformation initiatives

Collaboration with Technical Product Owner:

· Work closely with the new technical product owner to integrate product thinking into the ART's agile practices

· Support the technical product owner in developing and maintaining the product roadmap within the agile framework

· Facilitate the alignment of the product vision, NOW WE'RE BIG TIME, with the ART's objectives and PI planning process.

· Coach the technical product owner on effective ways to communicate product strategy and priorities to the ART

· Collaborate on backlog refinement to ensure that product requirements are well-defined and aligned with the DevOps toolchain vision

· Actively participates in agile team's ceremonies and represents the team in project or program planning events.

Qualifications Required

· Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college is required, master's degree preferred.

· 5+ years of experience in Agile methodologies, preferably in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment

· 3+ years of experience in a servant leadership role within software development or IT operations - Strong understanding of DevOps principles and practices - Excellent facilitation, coaching, and communication skills

· Proven ability to coordinate large, complex programs with multiple teams - Experience with CI/CD pipelines, cloud technologies (preferably AWS), and monitoring tools

· Certified SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) or equivalent certification

· Experience working with product owners and integrating product management practices into agile frameworks