Summary

The Release Train Engineer (RTE) is a servant leader and coach for the Agile Release Train (ART). The RTE’s major responsibilities are to facilitate the ART events and processes and assist the teams in delivering value. RTEs communicate with stakeholders, escalate impediments, help manage risk, and drive relentless improvement.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Escalates impediments and help manage risk
• Engages with business stakeholders to configure agile processes to the organization’s needs
• Fosters cross-value stream coordination and collaboration to help drive continual improvement
• Drives multiple release planning sessions
• Resolves impediments outside of a scrum master’s span of influence
• Tracks dependencies and risks across the portfolio
• Promotes an environment that anticipates and acts upon potential threats or opportunities
• Provides leadership, direction and coaching to scrum teams and scrum masters
• Maintains metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on program-level plans, progress and quality
• Assesses the costs and potential benefits of new approaches to release management
• Implements automation processes where possible
• Ensures the agreed quality standards within an organization are adhered to and best practice is promulgated throughout the organization
• Aligns strategy, methodology and execution

Qualifications

• Experience with Kanban/software development life cycle
• Deep and broad knowledge base in fundamental IT technical skill sets
• Practical experience with Scaled Agile and Agile Methodologies
• Demonstrated strong presentation and communication skills.
• Excellent problem solving skills and leadership ability
• Ability to work with, coach, and lead multiple teams
• Ability to adapt in a rapidly changing environment
• Understanding of all stages of the Agile software development process
• Strong time management skills including work planning, prioritization, and organization along with an ability to handle multiple priorities and tasks
• Demonstrated ability to guide others through change

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field; or equivalent experience required
• 5 years overall IT experience required
• 2 years experience as a Scrum Master, Product Owner, or Agile Coach
• Previous experience with JIRA preferred or related SDLC software

About Stifel

Stifel is a more than 130 years old and still thinking like a start-up. We are a global wealth management and investment banking firm serious about innovation and fresh ideas. Built on a simple premise of safeguarding our clients’ money as if it were our own, coined by our namesake, Herman Stifel, our success is intimately tied to our commitment to helping families, companies, and municipalities find their own success.

While our headquarters is in St. Louis, we have offices in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, and more than 400 other locations. Stifel is home to approximately 9,000 individuals who are currently building their careers as financial advisors, research analysts, project managers, marketing specialists, developers, bankers, operations associates, among hundreds more. Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success.

At Stifel we offer an entrepreneurial environment, comprehensive benefits package to include health, dental and vision care, 401k, wellness initiatives, life insurance, and paid time off.

Stifel is an Equal Opportunity Employer.