Required Skills:
1. Helps define norms/agreements for the ART and enforces the agreements.
2. Coordinates and facilitates ART ceremonies -e.g. Backlog Refinement, Program Increment (PI) Planning, ART Sync (or PO Sync, Scrum of Scrums), System Demos, Retrospective.
3. In collaboration with the PM, ensures the program has a healthy product/program backlog.
4. Facilitates dependency management/risk management/impediment removal for the ART.
5. Promotes/facilitates communication and collaboration within the ART to support value delivery and PI commitments.
6. Responsible for providing status updates and reporting pertaining to ART plans/delivery/timelines/impediments to stakeholders and leadership
7. Ensures Enterprise Change Management and other policy requirements for technology solutions are met for the epics/features delivered by the ART.
8. Measures ART delivery, maturity, and performance and reviews the metrics with the ART to identify improvement opportunities.
9. Captures data to help determine/track product funding and resource acquisition needs.
Preferred/Desired Skills:
1. Agile
2. Jira
3. Scrum
4. Kanban
5. Previous banking experience
Characteristics of a top performer; Prior RTE experience, Agile coach experience, strong JIRA and Agile knowledge
Deal Breaker: Must have RTE experience
Scope of work/position summary:
A Release Train Engineer I (RTE) is a servant leader who is responsible for optimizing the flow of epics/features and the value delivered by a smaller Agile Release Train (ART). Key responsibilities include coordinating and facilitating the ART ceremonies, managing dependencies across teams in the ART, and providing visibility into the health of epic/feature delivery and the overall program increment. This role ensures impediments to epic/feature delivery are resolved quickly and protects the teams from outside disruptions to delivery.. A RTE I, is an individual contributor at the program level.