BNY is seeking a Senior Vice President, Release Train Engineer to lead a group within a Platform consisting of multiple cross-functional development pods, orchestrate PI planning, instill agile management best practices, and ensure adherence to delivery principles and optimizations.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience as a Release Train Engineer, Scrum Leader, or Program Manager.
- 5+ years of experience with Agile Enablement Tooling.
- Typically requires 5 years of Agile experience.
- Strong understanding of agile methodologies and practices.
- Understanding and experience in software engineering and IT Infrastructure.
- Proficiency in JIRA or other agile tools and the ability to learn POM tooling.
Responsibilities
- Orchestrates quarterly Program Increment (PI) planning sessions for the Platform Group, ensuring delivery aligns with strategic benefits and quality standards.
- Drives cross-functional collaboration with Product Managers, Product Owners, Scrum Leads, Architects, QE, Ops Leads, and development teams.
- Facilitates group synchronization meetings with pods to keep delivery aligned.
- Coordinates readiness activities across Pods, focusing on dependency management, risk mitigation, and seamless integration with the organization’s benefits objectives.
- Organizes and ensures release management processes are executed successfully.
- Ensures adherence to the Agile Delivery Framework controls and BNY PtX process for the group.
- Drives continuous improvement in system architecture, DevOps, and release processes via workshops at the end of each PI (Inspect & Adapt).
Other
- Leads a group within a Platform consisting of multiple cross-functional development pods that are aligned with the vision of the platform.
- Operates as the Group Level coach in target state to instill agile management best practices.
- Owns adherence to BNY delivery principles, optimizations, and general hygiene.
- Creates a culture that promotes continuous learning and continuous innovation.
- Proven track record of managing multiple stakeholders and driving alignment.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and facilitation skills.
- Effective coach and collaborator, fostering a high-performing culture.
- Problem-solving confidence navigating through impediments.
- Strong teamwork skills.
- Risk management.
- Ability to learn and support both business and technical aspects of the group.
- Strong time management and organizational skills.
- Servant leadership to empower and support groups and pods.
- Systems thinking to understand the bigger picture and how different components interact.
