Genesis Consultinghas an immediate opportunity for an experienced, forward thinking Release TrainEngineer with a passion for growth and business transformation. Join our teamand utilize the latest technology to configure, develop, deliver and support applicationsfor our clients while leveraging concepts of Lean, Agile, Kanban and SAFe. Our clients are some of the world’s leading companies and thecandidate will be a part of challenging projects to build and support technicalsolutions for their needs.

The ReleaseTrain Engineer’s (RTE) primary purpose is to launch and run Agile ReleaseTrains (ARTs) to success and navigate the complexity of delivering technologysolutions to our client and stakeholders consistently in large environments. 

Duties and Responsibilities:

The RTE is a criticalstakeholder in an ART and in work related to but not within the ART.They are key to ensuring that teams adopt andmature with the SAFe practices being targeted by the SAFe TransformationTeam.They are also responsible fororganizing, facilitating, and improving the virtual PI Planning eventsinvolving over 25 teams and up to 350 participants. 

As part ofthe SAFe transformation team, they work with scrum masters, product owners, anddelivery team members to adopt SAFe practices and to improve delivery throughthese practices. 

The RTE isthe keeper of the SAFe practices for their ART.As such, they must be in constant contact with their teams to ensurethat practices are followed and that teams become more mature with eachiteration.

As the keyorganizer for virtual PI Planning events, the RTE must be on top of all aspectsof planning the event.This includessetting the agenda, getting all necessary approvals, confirming which teamswill participate and report, organizing licenses for the tools used, creatingthe facilitators’ guide, and more. 

During the PIPlanning event, the RTE will be the key point of contact for all teams in theART and must be able to resolve issues, escalate when needed, and keep otherstakeholders abreast of changes and major events. 

During PIExecution, the RTE works with teams and reports out to Product Managers andother leadership in terms of issues and concerns teams have with their PIcommitments, risk management, dependency management, and overall adherence toSAFe practices. 

The RTEfacilitates weekly scrum of scrums meetings, participates in weekly productowner sync meetings, and attends team meetings as necessary.Following up on these meetings with statusreports and online dashboards is part of the weekly work that they do.And on a daily basis, the RTE keeps track ofJIRA tickets that are created and updated to ensure that unexpected risks anddependencies are communicated and/or escalated. 

Dutiesinclude, but may not be limited to:

• Plan, coordinate and launchsuccessful release train with complex scope and interdependencies in amulti-vendor, public sector environment
• Facilitate the coordinatedpreparation of release planning for the release train, including communicationand coordination with stakeholders and customers during PI Planning preparation
• Ensure that the ARTadheres to and blends Lean Agile best practices
• Work with teams to define andcollect metrics during PI Execution.
• Ensure that these metrics areaddressed during the PI retrospective and the PI Demo.
• Resolve/report issues and managedependencies and risks across the ART and between ART’s
• Drive continuous improvementthrough the facilitation of retrospectives every PI, or more often as needed,to improve backlog management, or release train coordination and higher-levelfunction
• Actively participate in the RTECommunity of Practice helping the organization to maintain alignment, learn newtechniques, and improve technical and quality practices. Work with RTEcommunity to determine ways to help ARTs across the company improve cross trainand solution group coordination and collaboration.
• Teach, mentor, and coach teams, Scrum Masters, ARTsand Product Owners on emerging agile, lean, and XP methods

Requirements

MinimumQualifications/Experience:

• 5 years’ experience as RTE, Scrum Master, ProductOwner, or Agile Project/Program Manager
• Experience withProgram/Project Management
• Experience deployingSAFe Agile Framework and/or Activate methodology
• Experience managingend-to-end projects in a public sector implementation
• Experience assisting leadership and team memberswith removing barriers and embracing transformation by assisting eachorganization to customize its own path, approach and solutions to becomingAgile
• Experience launching agile teams and Agile ReleaseTrains, building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with DevOps culture, andempowering a Lean Portfolio
• Experience supporting and executing PI Planningevents and coordinating multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs)
• Servant leader and strong communicator with stronginterpersonal skills who can:
• Strong technical aptitude and experience leadingteams in delivering quality software
• Experience working in an Agile organization usingScrum, XP, Kanban, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), or other scaling model is required

Minimum Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree and 5 years’experience, or 10 years’ experience with no degree 

Required Certifications:

• SAFe Release Train Engineer Certification
• Scrum-certified by ScrumAlliance or Scrum.org 

Other:

• Must be US Citizen or Green CardHolder
• Must have ability to obtain aU.S. Public Trust Clearance
• Local travel to multiple clientand team locations in DC, MD, VA