Title: Release Train Engineer (RTE)
Location: Whippany, NJ
Type: Contract
Duration: Long Term
Required skills:
Primary responsibilities: - Managing the ART flow of value
- Coordinating and aligning ART activities with the organization's strategic goals
- Serving as a liaison between product management, development and operations teams
- Maintaining calendars for program increments (PIs), or phases of ART projects
- Implementing PI planning events and monitoring their progress
- Monitoring the development and implementation of new programs and features
- Identifying and managing ART bottlenecks, help the ART manage and mitigate risks.
- Encouraging teams within the ART to collaborate on tasks to meet goals.
- Promoting improvement through inspect and adapt (I&A) events after PI completions.
- Helping keep the ART productive by ensuring the use of lean-Agile processes.
- Provide guidance to their teams while completing tasks alongside team members during peak times to help them stay on schedule.
Essential skills: - Excellent in planning & coordination, follow-ups, interacting with all levels of organization. (Must have)
- Ability to adapt to fast paced environment (Must have)
- Recent experience in conducting PI planning events. (Must have)
- Well versed with SAFe framework, roles and responsibilities. (Must have)
- Hands on experience using JIRA for PI planning, managing ART flows and Epic Kanban. (Must have)
- Excellent verbal and written communications. (Must have)
- Previous Scrum Master experience managing multiple scrum teams. (Preferred)
- Certified SAFe RTE (Preferred)
- Financial industry experience is a plus. (Desirable)
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