Citi Group Agile Release Train Engineer- VP 

United States, Florida, Tampa 

913830742

About Citi:

Citi’s Functions Technology is responsible for delivering Technology solutions to Citi's Functions organizations. Functions Technology mission is to optimize Citi's Technology environment by delivering world class applications, driving standardization of the production environment, reducing complexity, optimizing management of systems supporting global functions such as Compliance, Controls, Internal Audit and Risk, and introducing innovative technologies that provide new business capabilities, reduce the technology total cost of ownership, and create a competitive advantage for Citi.

Responsibilities

• Act as a Change Agent with a passion for supporting Agile teams and Portfolios to transform their behaviors toward an agile mindset and environment.

• Prepare for and facilitate Planning Increment (PI) Planning then Lead the successful execution of each PI to achieve its objectives and enabling outcomes to execute the ARTs product vision.

• Facilitate SAFe processes and events for the ART enhancing team and ART performance and maturity

• Facilitate program level agile ceremonies to include dependency mapping, release planning and scope alignment across Product teams

• Coordinate major feature releases and ongoing value delivery to customers

• Ensure risk and compliance goals are met through enablement of high code quality, robust backlogs, and reduction of technical debt

• Enable the removal of or escalate impediments to the Scrum Teams or ART progress

• Leverage performance data to drive outcomes and continuous improvement for the ART

• Enable empirical product planning for a complex environment

• Facilitate communication and partnership inside and outside the ART to include stakeholder engagement

• Coach teams on the ART and others they interact with to adopt an agile mindset with focus on agile values and principles leading with transparency, inspection, and adaptation resulting in delivery of high value increments which meet the Definition of Done

Qualifications

• 6-10 years working in an agile environment as a development team member, Scrum Master, RTE or Product Owner

• 5+ years' experience in the Scrum Master or Agile Coach role of distributed Agile team, tech domain

• Mindset consistent with Scrum core values: openness, courage, respect, focus and commitment

• Demonstrated understanding of lean agile values and principles including the 3-5-3 structure of scrum

• Expert in facilitation, problem solving and influencing outcomes

• Expert knowledge of best practices in value driven development (requirements management, prototyping, hypothesis driven development, usability testing).

• Strong knowledge of technical engineering best practices including test driven development, continuous integration, DevOps

• Demonstrated knowledge of common practices to manage risk from risk identification through mitigation and monitoring

• Expert knowledge of agile tool suites including Atlassian, Agility Health, MS Teams or similar agile management tooling

• SAFe RTE, Scrum Master and Agile Certifications

Preferences

• Experience with large-scale enterprise agile transformations with knowledge of multiple agile and scaling frameworks

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience

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