Lead large Agile Release Trains to coordinate planning, manage backlogs, resolve impediments, manage risks and dependencies, collect metrics/KPIs, facilitate ceremonies, and drive continuous improvement to ensure program-level delivery aligned to company strategy.
Cox Automotive is seeking a talented Senior Release Train Engineer to join its team. The Senior Release Train Engineer (RTE) is an outcomes-driven problem solver whose primary purpose is to lead large, complex Agile Release Trains (ARTs) to success by navigating the complexities of delivering software solutions consistently across diverse environments.
The Senior RTE must creatively resolve and escalate a wide range of impediments, manage risk, assure value delivery, and drive program-level continuous improvement. They play a critical role as a link between multiple scrum teams, facilitating communication, opening the flow of information, and sharing important progress updates to ensure all teams involved in the ART are focused on successful delivery.
The Senior RTE is accountable for the overall coordination, execution, and delivery of value through the program, while ensuring alignment with the company's strategy, commitments, and goals.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
WHO YOU ARE
Minimum Qualifications
Preferred
USD 111,600.00 - 186,000.00 per year
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $111,600.00 - $186,000.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.
Benefits:
The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship.
EOE, including disability/vets
The Senior RTE must creatively resolve and escalate a wide range of impediments, manage risk, assure value delivery, and drive program-level continuous improvement. They play a critical role as a link between multiple scrum teams, facilitating communication, opening the flow of information, and sharing important progress updates to ensure all teams involved in the ART are focused on successful delivery.
The Senior RTE is accountable for the overall coordination, execution, and delivery of value through the program, while ensuring alignment with the company's strategy, commitments, and goals.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
- Oversees release trains (groups of agile teams) that are of strategic importance to our business and have complex scope and interdependencies.
- Has responsibility for facilitating ceremonies and work management for both the Release Train Team, as well as a subset or all of the delivery teams associated with that Release Train.
- Facilitates the coordinated preparation of release planning for the release train and delivery teams, including communication and coordination with stakeholders and customers during feature definition and delivery.
- Actively manages the backlog, as well as ALM tool data integrity for accurate reporting. This includes the collection of metrics and KPI's.
- Actively manages the backlog, as well as ALM tool data integrity for accurate reporting. This includes the collection of metrics and KPI's.
- Coordinate major feature releases and ongoing delivery of value to customers where multiple teams, release trains, or solution groups are involved in development.
- Resolve/report a wide range of issues and manage dependencies and risks across the ART, between ART's, as well as across delivery teams.
- Leverages agile delivery metrics and regular Agile ceremonies to identify and drive continuous improvement, in order to maximize organizational performance and execution against the backlog.
- Regularly participates in the RTE and SM Community of Practice, helping the organization to maintain alignment, learn new techniques, and improve technical and quality practices.
- Work with RTE and SM community to determine ways to help ARTs across the company improve cross-training and solution group coordination and collaboration.
- Applies Agile principles and methodology solutions with a pragmatic, stakeholder-management approach.
WHO YOU ARE
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 4 years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 4 years' experience; a Ph.D. and 1 year of experience; or 10 years' experience in a related field.
- 4+ years' experience in a Release Train Engineer role; or 5+ years' experience in a Scrum Master or Agile Program Manager title.
- Strong technical aptitude and experience leading teams in delivering quality software.
- Experience using ALM tools preferred; Rally or Target process experience is a plus.
- Position requires minimum 2 days / wk in-office; candidates must live in metropolitan area of job location.
Preferred
- Experience leveraging and interpreting agile metrics.
- Demonstrated ability to facilitate large planning and solutioning sessions.
- Understanding of Agile at scale philosophies & methodologies.
- Experience with Organizational Change Management practices.
- Experience working in an Agile organization using Scrum, XP, Kanban, or Agile at scale practices.
USD 111,600.00 - 186,000.00 per year
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $111,600.00 - $186,000.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.
Benefits:
The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship.
EOE, including disability/vets
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