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Bank Of America Release Train Engineer 
United States, North Carolina, Charlotte 
465076405

13.09.2024

Job Description:

Job Description:
This job is responsible for optimizing the flow of epics, features, and the value delivered by a smaller Agile Release Train, such as a Solution Train. Key responsibilities include coordinating and facilitating the Solution Train ceremonies, managing dependencies, providing visibility into the health of epic and feature delivery and the overall program increment, and promoting agile principles and mindsets through coaching. Job expectations include ensuring impediments to epic and feature delivery are resolved quickly to avoid disruptions and participating in budget and resource planning.

In collaboration with the PM, ensures the program has a healthy product/program backlog. Facilitates dependency management/risk management/impediment removal for the ART. Promotes/facilitates communication and collaboration within the ART to support value delivery and PI commitments. Responsible for providing status updates and reporting pertaining to ART plans/delivery/timelines/impediments to stakeholders and leadership. Ensures Enterprise Change Management and other policy requirements for technology solutions are met for the epics/features delivered by the ART. Measures ART delivery, maturity, and performance and reviews the metrics with the ART to identify improvement opportunities. Captures data to help determine/track product funding and resource acquisition needs. Individual Contributor

Responsibilities:

  • Guides and coaches leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters in the Agile Release Train on Agile practices and develops their understanding of Agile principles
  • Executes program increment session for release train and facilitates Agile release train ceremonies
  • Provides status updates regarding Agile Release Train plans, delivery, timelines, and impediments to stakeholders and leadership while communicating within the Agile Release Train to support delivery against program commitments
  • Manages risk including dependency management, impediment removal, and compliance with Enterprise Change Management and other policy requirements
  • Measures Agile Release Train delivery, maturity, and performance and reviews the metrics with the Agile Release Train to identify improvement opportunities
  • Collaborates with the product management team and ensures the program has a healthy product and program backlog
  • Defines norms and agreements for the Agile Release Train and enforces the agreements

Required Qualifications:

  • Facilitates the coordinated preparation of release planning for the release train.
  • Assisting the Program Architects and Product Manager in the refining of epics to be considered in the next quarterly planning cycle to meet the Epic Definition of Ready.
  • Assist the ART (Agile Release Train) in communication and coordination with stakeholders and customers during epic definition and delivery.
  • Ensures effective communication and coordination for and during quarterly planning, including feature reviews and story alignment.
  • Manages change to the ART’s quarterly plan and the impacts of those changes.
  • Helps with the traceability of project epic to application epic/stories, as well as ensuring traceability in JIRA from business requirements to testing scripts.
  • Assists the ART to remain transparent to itself, the teams on the train, and to the organization through:
  • Backlog Management and coordination at train level for accurate reporting. May include the collection of metrics, KPIs, investment mix reporting, and other reporting as needed by the release train or organization.
  • Facilitation and continuous improvement of periodic ART Reviews with organizational leaders and stakeholders to provide clarity on the expected value delivery and to gain stakeholder feedback on changes to direction the release train may need to take.
  • May include participation in and assisting in the improvement of the System Demo.
  • Fosters the idea of transparency with their program's teams.
  • Ensures that all program cadences are not only adequate for the program, but that all stakeholders (TI, Architects, Delivery Leads, etc.) are included in those cadences.

Desired Qualifications:

  • Delivery Coordination.The RTE may be called upon to lead projects that impact the ART but may not require work being added to team backlogs.
  • Drives the ART in the coordination of major epic releases and ongoing delivery of value to customers where multiple teams, release trains, or solution groups are involved in development and release.
  • Drives the ART and the Product Managers in the coordination of portfolio level initiatives that cross multiple release trains.
  • Drives the ART in resolving or reporting escalated issues involving risk, or dependency management that may be hindering the team’s ability to deliver Epics.
  • Drives the Risk discussions at the end of a Program Increment (PI) event to ensure that they are accurately communicated and proper mitigation has been documented. Facilitates risk discussions throughout the PI to ensure that they are mitigated and/or escalated if need be.
  • SAFe Release Train Engineer certification.
  • Assisting in the execution of product vision.
  • Coordination of production support, and continuous improvement of operational workflows and communication, etc.
  • Prior RTE Experience.

Skills:

  • Agile Practices
  • Collaboration
  • Influence
  • Solution Design
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Architecture
  • Business Acumen
  • DevOps Practices
  • Solution Delivery Process
  • Technical Strategy Development
  • Financial Management
  • Result Orientation
  • Risk Management
  • Test Engineering
  • User Experience Design
1st shift (United States of America)