Release Train Coordinator

4 days ago


Bellville, Western Cape, South Africa Progressive IT Resourcing Full time
Job Details:

Are you a seasoned professional looking to drive continuous business improvement through the introduction of new products, enhancements, or changes to systems, processes, or business capabilities? We are seeking a skilled Release Train Engineer to manage and optimize the flow of value through our Agile Release Train (ART).

Key Responsibilities:

  • Manage and optimize the flow of value through the ART using various tools such as the program Kanban and other dashboards.
  • Establish and communicate the annual calendars for iterations and program increments (PIs).
  • Facilitate PI Planning readiness by fostering a continuous exploration process which drives the synthesis of a vision, roadmap, and backlogs.
  • Facilitate the PI Planning event.
  • Summarize squad PI objectives into program PI objectives and publish them for visibility and transparency.
  • Assist in tracking the execution of features and capabilities.
  • Facilitate periodic synchronization meetings including the ART sync at the essential level.
  • Assist with economic decision making through facilitating feature and capability estimation by squads and the roll up to epics.
  • Assist in enabling leaders, teams, and agile facilitators with lean agile practices and mindsets.
  • Help manage risk and dependences across squads within the ART.
  • Escalate and track impediments.
  • Provide input on resourcing to address critical bottlenecks.
  • Encourage collaboration between squads.
  • Work with product management, product owners, and other stakeholders to ensure strategy and execution alignment.
  • Improve the flow of value streams by enhancing and assessing the practices associated with DevOps and release on demand in the continuous delivery pipeline.
  • Understand and operate with lean budgets and ensure adherence to guardrails.
  • Facilitate system demos.
  • Drive relentless improvement via inspect and adapt workshops; assess the agility level of the ART on an ongoing basis.
  • Foster communities of practice and the use of engineering and built-in quality practices.

Requirements:

  • 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).

Desirable 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 in Company.
  • 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.


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