Release Train Engineer

Title - Release Train Engineer
Location- Hybrid Work (Onsite 1-2 days) (Company Resides in Golden Valley, MN)
Duration- Initial 12 months + extension options - Long term contract role
Rate- Open ( depending on experience)
End client- Allianz Life
Interview- Virtual (Video) interview
Visa- Must be Green Card Holder or US citizen Only
Need Consultant ONLY *LOCAL* to Golden Valley, Minnesota.
Please see required/desirable skills for more description:

• SAFe certified
• Hold at least one SAFe certification: SAFe Agilist (SA), SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE), or SAFe Program Consultant.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) required

• Facilitate program events such as PI Planning, Inspect & Adapt, the Scrum of Scrums, and the Portfolio leadership meetings.
• Facilitate Program Increment (PI) planning events and readiness ceremonies and drive activities and tasks for the development of a vision, roadmap, and program backlog
• Facilitate synchronization events, including ART sync and Solution Train sync
• Facilitate Release and DevOps activities to support the delivery of end-to-end value.
• Track and report the ART performance, identify dependencies, risks, and impediments identified during PI planning and throughout the PI lifecycle
• Facilitate the Agile Release Train (ART), escalate impediments, manage risk, and help drive program-level continuous improvement.
• Resolve escalated impediments, and/or escalate impediments to Leadership and Management as required
• Communicate the train's progress via weekly updates to management highlighting successes, risks, areas of improvement, and suggested resolutions.
• Facilitate team collaboration with Solution Architect and Test Lead to ensure high quality technical delivery.
• Participate in Portfolio and Program Management process improvement and standardization activities.
• Interface with project stakeholders
• Consult with management on an ongoing basis to maintain strategic link to business needs.
• Assure compliance with company project management policies and standards.

• Must have experience managing AGILE Scrum Teams
• Demonstrated communication and influencing skills.
• Knowledge of Project Management methodologies and tools.
• Knowledge and understanding of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle).
• Knowledge of industry products, functions, marketing and/or service policies and procedures.
• Experience in formal techniques of risk management
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Experience working with some of the following Agile tools: ServiceNow Agile, JIRA, Confluence, AzureDevOps, or other similar ALM tools
• Experience working closely with business teams
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Excellent relationship management skills
• Experience in change management
• Financial and Insurance Product Industry Experience is a plus

• Minimum 4 years working in Agile environments (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, DevOps)
• With a minimum of 2 years of in SAFe environment.
• Direct experience working as an RTE or Program Manager
• Bachelor's degree
• Experience implementing SAFe or a similar Agile scaling framework
• Facilitating many of the SAFe ceremonies including but not limited to PI Planning, PI shareout, scrum of scrums, demos
• Identifying and managing risks and dependencies between teams
• SAFe certified
• Hold at least one SAFe certification: SAFe Agilist (SA), SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE), or SAFe Program Consultant.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) required