Release Train Engineer: Payments

7 days ago

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Vodafone Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Release Train Engineer to join our team at Vodacom. As a key member of our digital transformation team, you will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and deploying releases into production within a particular domain or business outcome.

Key Responsibilities
  • Plan and coordinate the release train, ensuring timely and successful deployment of releases into production.
  • Identify, manage, and mitigate cross-program risks and issues to facilitate on-time delivery of capabilities and features aligned to the business outcome vision.
  • Work closely with the domain or business outcome Product Manager and supporting Product Owners to coordinate delivery of capabilities.
  • Define release readiness requirements against business outcome needs and validate readiness before release into production.
  • Execute Agile Release Train based on agreed PI objectives.
  • Drive multiple release planning sessions.
  • Facilitate the resolution of impediments and risks within span of influence.
  • Work with other program leaders to drive the definition and refinement of the program backlog and execution alignment.
  • Maintain metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on program-level plans, progress, and quality.
  • Support Product Owners with various requirements gathering and Scrum activities as needed.
  • Help to assure value delivery.
  • Aggregate team objectives into program objectives and publish them for visibility and transparency.
  • Assist with execution and feature/capability completion tracking (KPIs/metrics).
  • Facilitate periodic synchronization meetings (Scrum of Scrums and PO Sync).
  • Assist with economic decision-making by facilitating feature and capability estimation by teams and roll-up to the value stream level and portfolio level.
  • Drive relentless improvement.
  • Manage program planning of engineering delivery.
  • Monitor and facilitate programs.
  • Manage the deployment of all releases into production and define/assess release readiness according to business requirements.
  • Coordinate and communicate the release pipeline to deliver frequent releases across business outcomes; manage external dependencies, ensuring alignment across key partners and vendors.
  • Continuously improve release processes, implementing best practices consistent with agile methodologies.
Requirements
  • At least a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field.
  • Eight or more years' experience in coordinating and delivering major projects and programs.
  • Extensive experience in managing dependencies effectively across multiple delivery teams, meeting deadlines, and business outcome objectives.
  • Experience managing multiple vendors and managing delivery with vendors.
  • Formal training and/or certification in Scaled Agile Framework or similar preferred.
  • Certified Agile Coach, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM) or similar.
  • Extensive experience with one or more project/program management methodologies, such as PMI PMBOK, PRINCE2, Agile, and MSP, and across a range of project types.
  • Experience with project management tools JIRA, MS Project.
  • Professional experience and knowledge of Payments industries (POS; Ecommerce; Mcommerce) strongly preferred.
  • Professional experience and knowledge of digital and Telecommunications industries strongly preferred.
Core Competencies, Knowledge, and Experience
  • Release train/pipeline planning, coordination, facilitation, and management.
  • Automated release and configuration management.
  • Program Increment (PI) Planning.
  • Production-readiness criteria definition and assessment of modules and supporting systems.
  • Systems thinking.
  • Ability to operate independently and escalate where necessary.
  • Agile software development environment and methods.
What We Offer
  • Enticing incentive programs, competitive benefit packages, and an exclusive 13th cheque.
  • Retirement funds, risk benefits, and medical aid benefits.
  • Cell phone and data benefits, advantages fibre connection discounts, and exclusive staff discounts offered in collaboration with partner companies.

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