• Be the Agile Champion by promoting and growing the ART's agile capabilities
• Building a high-performing Agile Release Train through servant leadership and coaching with multiple product line teams
• Coordinates with the Product Management Team to define the software release plan and scope.
• Acts as single voice for software releases to assure engineering deliverables are meeting the needs of the business goals
• Responsible for facilitating program level work across a diverse set of agile development teams.
• Plans and facilitates ART ceremonies such as PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, ART Sync, System Demos, and Inspect & Adapt workshops
• Cultivate Communities of Practice to strengthen skills and encourage knowledge sharing within the organization.
• Facilitate PI Planning readiness by ensuring the synthesis and alignment of the ART vision and roadmap through cadence-based feature prioritization, estimation, and grooming.
• Assists the portfolio by facilitating feature estimation by teams
• Regularly meets with ART business owners and other partners to think beyond day-to-day activities to determine strategic direction and strategy
• Summarizes Team PI Objectives into Program PI Objectives and publish them for visibility and accountability
• Leads teams in meeting the ART's Program PI Objectives by supervising the execution of features and objectives, assisting in tracking, calling out and resolving impediments and bottlenecks
• Collaborates with Portfolio Epic / Product Owners to ensure required overarching activities are being coordinated to realize the business value of the solutions the ART builds
• Works with Scrum Masters to help mentor teams in alignment to SAFe principles and practices
• Supervise and publish metrics on ART progress and performance which are used to help identify improvement opportunities
• Improves the Art's flow of value through continuous learning and experimentation
• BS in CS or related field, advanced degree preferred.
• Five (5) years of experience working directly with Agile teams on projects as a Release Train Engineer or a Scrum Master.
• Eight (8) years of relevant IT experience developing on-premise and cloud software solutions.
• Three (3) years of software design and coding experience for desktop or web applications.
• Agile or SAFe certification required.

Strong knowledge of Agile approaches - Kanban, Scrum, XP, etc.

• Must demonstrate technology leadership skills, demonstrating the importance of good decision making and strategic discipline through example and mentorship.
• High-level understanding of software architecture and software delivery lifecycle to provide context of teams work to management as needed.
• Strong servant leader skills - works well with people, able to determine roles needed for projects and structure agile teams.
• Ability to manage enterprise-wide programs and interact effectively with senior leadership.

Able to achieve big picture objectives while paying attention to details.

• Strong tactical, strategic thinking, problem solving skills, and leadership.
• Experience managing projects and programs across geographical regions.

Ability to lead and motivate diverse project teams and juggle multiple tasks.

• Ability to function in a team-oriented environment and influence staff, colleagues, and superiors.
• Experience running Agile using Microsoft Azure DevOps and ALM tools.
• Experience with Agile development for FDA regulated products is a plus.
• Experience of utilizing Agile development principles to hardware is a plus.

Last updated : 2024-04-28