Our West Michigan Client has a contract opportunity for a Release Train Engineer to assist with facilitating the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Agile Release Training (ART) processes and program execution, escalating impediments, managing risks, and helping drive program-level relentless improvement. This is a hybrid role onsite M, T, W.
location: Grand Rapids, Michigan
job type: Solutions
salary: $40 - 48 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelors
responsibilities:
- Provide management and guidance for the Agile Release Train (ART) relating to utilization of Agile practices and how to best ensure successful execution of Program Objectives.
- Work with all team members and stakeholders to achieve alignment.
- Collaborate with other RTE's to ensure delivery of program level objectives across the business.
- Driving delivery of train value and reporting on the value achieved.
- Provides broad oversight to ART capacity, budgets, and costs to ensure valuation optimization including tracking, reporting, and communication to leadership.
- 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, as needed, to ensure proper program execution and program/feature grooming, including guidance on work breakdown for user stories, prioritization, estimation of work, evaluation of team velocity, decision-making, resourcing, removing impediments, and ultimately, delivery of 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:
SAFe Agile processes including Kanban boards, user story writing, burndown techniques, and retrospective facilitation.
Working experience with Azure DevOps
Excellent communication and mentoring skills.
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.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with an ability to express complex technical concepts in business terms.
Strong analytical, problem solving, and conceptual skills.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.
At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact HRsupport@randstadusa.com.
Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).
This posting is open for thirty (30) days.
