Stifel is looking for a Release Train Engineer (RTE) to act as a servant leader and coach for the Agile Release Train (ART), facilitating events, assisting teams in delivering value, communicating with stakeholders, escalating impediments, managing risk, and driving relentless improvement within the organization.
Requirements
- Experience with Kanban/software development life cycle
- Deep and broad knowledge base in fundamental IT technical skill sets
- Practical experience with Scaled Agile and Agile Methodologies
- Understanding of all stages of the Agile software development process
- Implements automation processes where possible
- Ensures the agreed quality standards within an organization are adhered to and best practice is promulgated throughout the organization
- Experience with SDLC software such as JIRA
Responsibilities
- Escalates impediments and help manage risk
- Drives multiple release planning sessions
- Resolves impediments outside of a scrum master's span of influence
- Tracks dependencies and risks across the portfolio
- Promotes an environment that anticipates and acts upon potential threats or opportunities
- Provides leadership, direction and coaching to scrum teams and scrum masters
- Maintains metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on program-level plans, progress and quality
Other
- Engages with business stakeholders to configure agile processes to the organization's needs
- Fosters cross-value stream coordination and collaboration to help drive continual improvement
- Assesses the costs and potential benefits of new approaches to release management
- Aligns strategy, methodology and execution
- Demonstrated strong presentation and communication skills.
- Excellent problem solving skills and leadership ability
- Ability to work with, coach, and lead multiple teams
- Ability to adapt in a rapidly changing environment
- Strong time management skills including work planning, prioritization, and organization along with an ability to handle multiple priorities and tasks
- Demonstrated ability to guide others through change
- Minimum Required: 5 years overall IT experience and 2 years experience as a scrum master, product owner or agile coach
