Full Time || Release Train Engineer || Chicago, IL (day1 onsite, Hybrid)

Role: Release Train Engineer

Location: Chicago, IL (day1 onsite, Hybrid)
Full Time

Job Description:

• Have 8 years of exp. in IT and 5 years of relevant exp. as a Release train
• Create empowered, self-organizing, high-performing teams by serving as the team's servant leader
• Mentor the team and the Product Owner on Scrum and Agile best practices
• Continuously improve team productivity and facilitate completion of work
• Educate the team, Product Owner and stakeholders on the business value of engineering practices, and promote the use of engineering practices to provide faster delivery, better quality, and fewer defects
• In collaboration with the team and Product Owner, regularly assess the Agile maturity of the team, identify improvement opportunities, and implement the improvements at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and the organization
• Coach the team on the value and methods of developing cross-functional skills

2. Facilitate planning

a. Coach the Product Owner on creating and maintaining a continuously prioritized Product Backlog of stories with clear acceptance criteria and high-level estimates

b. In collaboration with the team, facilitate the creation of team agreements which minimally include a Definition of Done (DOD) and a Definition of Ready (DOR)

c. Facilitate regular Release train Planning workshops

d. Ensure updates to the plan are communicated to stakeholders

3. Facilitate delivery

a. In collaboration with the team, identify and mitigate risks, issues and dependencies internal and external to the team

b. Remove impediments that prevent the team from delivering work and continuously improving

c. Facilitate sprint execution including elaborate planning sessions, sprint planning preparation sessions, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.

Team coaching on:

I. Creating small stories with thin slices of end-to-end functionality

ii. The value and use of relative estimation

iii. Executing Design/Build/Test activities daily

iv. Testing early and often during each sprint

v. Incorporating engineering practices

vi. Completing committed stories in the sprint.