Release Train Engineer

2 weeks ago

Cape Town, South Africa Adzuna ZA B C2 Full time
What will make you successful in this role?
  • Manages and optimizes the flow of value through the ART using various tools such as the program kanban and other dashboards.
  • Establishes and communicates the annual calendars for iterations and program increments (PIs).
  • Facilitates PI Planning readiness by fostering a continuous exploration process which drives the synthesis of a vision, roadmap and backlogs, and through pre and post PI Planning meetings.
  • Facilitates the PI Planning event (end state).
  • Summarizes squad PI objectives into program PI objectives and publishes them for visibility and transparency.
  • Assists in tracking the execution of features and capabilities.
  • Facilitates periodic synchronization meetings including the ART sync at the essential level.
  • Assists with economic decision making through facilitating feature and capability estimation by squads and the roll up to epics.
  • Assists in enabling leaders, teams and agile facilitators with lean agile practices and mindsets.
  • Helps manage risk and dependences across squads within the ART.
  • Escalates and tracks impediments.
  • Provides input on resourcing to address critical bottlenecks.
  • Encourages collaboration between squads.
  • Works with product management, product owners and other stakeholders to ensure strategy and execution alignment.
  • Improves the flow of value streams by enhancing and assessing the practices associated with devops and release on demand in the continuous delivery pipeline.
  • Understands and operates with lean budgets and ensures adherence to guardrails.
  • Facilitates system demos.
  • Drives relentless improvement via inspect and adapt workshops; assesses the agility level of the ART on an ongoing basis.
  • Fosters communities of practice and the use of engineering and built-in quality practices.

Qualification:
  • Matric
  • Any relevant IT Qualification (IT Diploma or Degree) will be a strong recommendation
  • RTE certification recommended

Experience:
Management of Release for
  • At least 4 years of working in an agile environment
  • At least 2 years of coordinating a sizeable release train

Knowledge/experience within the Life Assurance industry (or in broader Financial Services industry)

Knowledge & Skills:
  • Thorough knowledge of agile practices, rituals and ceremonies
  • Good understanding of engineering practices
  • Thorough knowledge of Jira and Confluence
  • Good understanding of how agile works at scale
  • Thorough understanding of how to utilize dashboards, KPI/metrics & burn down charts
  • Good understanding of Behavior Driven Development methodology practiced
  • Solid grasp of how to scale lean and agile practices
  • Understanding of the unique opportunities and challenges associated with facilitating and continuously aligning a large development program
  • Servant leadership
  • Systems thinking
  • Problem solving
  • Influencing
  • Strong facilitation skills
  • Negotiation

Personal Attributes:
  • Decision quality - Contributing through others
  • Optimises work processes - Contributing through others
  • Plans and aligns - Contributing through others
  • Action orientated - Contributing strategically
  • Collaborates - Contributing strategically
  • Cultivates innovation - Contributing strategically

Core Competencies:
  • Being resilient - Contributing through others
  • Collaborates - Contributing through others
  • Cultivates innovation - Contributing through others
  • Customer focus - Contributing through others
  • Drives results - Contributing through others

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