Company:
ZEISS Meditec Inc.
Location: Dublin
Closing Date: 09/11/2024
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description
- Be the Agile Champion by promoting and growing the ART's agile capabilities
- Building a high-performing Agile Release Train through servant leadership and coaching with multiple product line teams
- Coordinates with the Product Management Team to define the software release plan and scope.
- Acts as single voice for software releases to assure engineering deliverables are meeting the needs of the business goals
- Supports program execution, escalates impediments, manages risk, and helps drive program-level continuous improvement activities
- Responsible for facilitating program level work across a diverse set of agile development teams.
- Plans and facilitates ART ceremonies such as PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, ART Sync, System Demos, and Inspect & Adapt workshops
- Cultivate Communities of Practice to strengthen skills and encourage knowledge sharing within the organization.
- Facilitate PI Planning readiness by ensuring the synthesis and alignment of the ART vision and roadmap through cadence-based feature prioritization, estimation, and grooming.
- Assists the portfolio by facilitating feature estimation by teams
- Regularly meets with ART business owners and other partners to think beyond day-to-day activities to determine strategic direction and strategy
- Summarizes Team PI Objectives into Program PI Objectives and publish them for visibility and accountability
- Leads teams in meeting the ART's Program PI Objectives by supervising the execution of features and objectives, assisting in tracking, calling out and resolving impediments and bottlenecks
- Collaborates with Portfolio Epic/Product Owners to ensure required overarching activities are being coordinated to realize the business value of the solutions the ART builds
- Works with Scrum Masters to help mentor teams in alignment to SAFe principles and practices
- Supervise and publish metrics on ART progress and performance which are used to help identify improvement opportunities
- Improves the Art's flow of value through continuous learning and experimentation
- BS in CS or related field, advanced degree preferred.
- Five (5) years of experience working directly with Agile teams on projects as a Release Train Engineer or a Scrum Master.
- Eight (8) years of relevant IT experience developing on-premise and cloud software solutions.
- Three (3) years of software design and coding experience for desktop or web applications.
- Agile or SAFe certification required. Strong knowledge of Agile approaches - Kanban, Scrum, XP, etc.
- Must demonstrate technology leadership skills, demonstrating the importance of good decision making and strategic discipline through example and mentorship.
- High-level understanding of software architecture and software delivery lifecycle to provide context of teams work to management as needed.
- Strong servant leader skills - works well with people, able to determine roles needed for projects and structure agile teams.
- Ability to manage enterprise-wide programs and interact effectively with senior leadership. Able to achieve big picture objectives while paying attention to details.
- Strong tactical, strategic thinking, problem solving skills, and leadership.
- Experience managing projects and programs across geographical regions. Ability to lead and motivate diverse project teams and juggle multiple tasks.
- Ability to function in a team-oriented environment and influence staff, colleagues, and superiors.
- Experience running Agile using Microsoft Azure DevOps and ALM tools.
- Experience with Agile development for FDA regulated products is a plus.
- Experience of utilizing Agile development principles to hardware is a plus.