What are the responsibilities and job description for the Release Train Engineer - REMOTE from any US-based location in Central or Eastern time zones position at CNO Financial Group?
Salary Range : $140,600 - $211,000 Annual
Job Details
The stated pay range is based on a national-average location. Actual salary is determined by factors including relevant work experience, skills and location. This position is bonus eligible.
CNO Financial Group’s IT Team is hiring a Release Train Engineer to serve as a recognized servant leader and subject matter expert of Agile methodologies and Program Management across the CNO enterprise. This role will be accountable for leading a highly complex Agile Release Train (ART), which is a Team of Agile Teams working towards a common business objective. This role will also be responsible for facilitating PI Planning for all ART teams, as well as helping teams to uncover and resolve dependencies. The Release Train Engineer will work with the teams to ensure integration of the work and will frequently communicate with Senior Management stakeholders and significantly influence and advise executives on ART status, risk mitigation strategies, etc.
As a Release Train Engineer, your responsibilities will include:
CNO embraces flexibility and encourages you to work where you’re most productive. Associates who live within a 60-mile radius of a corporate office (Birmingham, Carmel, Chicago, Orlando and Milwaukee) have access to come into that office.
Associates who live outside of a 60-mile radius of a corporate office (Birmingham, Carmel, Chicago, Orlando and Milwaukee) may perform this role full-time work from home (WFH) from any US based location, as long as you are willing to work central or eastern time zone hours. All associates may be asked to travel to varying corporate offices periodically. Work cannot be performed from outside of the United States.
CNO provides life and health insurance, annuities, financial services, and workforce benefits solutions through our family of brands and supported by our associates and agents. Our customers work hard to save for the future, and we help protect their health, income and retirement needs with 3.2 million policies and more than $35 billion in total assets. Our 3,400 associates, 8,600 exclusive agents and independent partner agents guide individuals, families and businesses through a lifetime of financial decisions.
We are financially strong and well positioned for continued growth, and we are grounded in our core values of People Focused, Integrity, Customer Driven, and Excellence. We have offices in more than 260 communities in the U.S., including our headquarters in Carmel, Indiana, and corporate offices in Birmingham, Chicago, Orlando and Milwaukee.
At CNO Financial Group, we’re always looking forward—to the security and stability we help create for our insurance brands’ customers, and the growth we create within our own company. We're looking for ambitious people who want to do more. We'll provide you with opportunities to grow your skills through challenging professional experiences.
If you're looking for a culture that encourages development, helps you reach your potential, and rewards you for your contribution, then CNO Financial Group is right for you. For more information, visit CNOinc.com.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Compensation
Pay Range: $140,600.00 - $211,000.00 Annual
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
ReqID : JR169593
Job Type : Full time
Job Details
The stated pay range is based on a national-average location. Actual salary is determined by factors including relevant work experience, skills and location. This position is bonus eligible.
CNO Financial Group’s IT Team is hiring a Release Train Engineer to serve as a recognized servant leader and subject matter expert of Agile methodologies and Program Management across the CNO enterprise. This role will be accountable for leading a highly complex Agile Release Train (ART), which is a Team of Agile Teams working towards a common business objective. This role will also be responsible for facilitating PI Planning for all ART teams, as well as helping teams to uncover and resolve dependencies. The Release Train Engineer will work with the teams to ensure integration of the work and will frequently communicate with Senior Management stakeholders and significantly influence and advise executives on ART status, risk mitigation strategies, etc.
As a Release Train Engineer, your responsibilities will include:
- Overseeing, managing and optimizing the flow of value through a highly complex ART using various tools, such as the Program and Solution Kanbans and other information radiators.
- Providing significant input into the overall objectives that the ART is expected to deliver on and successfully executing on the delivery.
- Coaching leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters in several Lean-Agile practices, principles, and methodologies.
- Establishing, tracking, and reporting on metrics for the ART, planning the work of teams and establishing the annual calendars for Iterations and Program Increments (PIs), which are fixed development timelines of approximately 10 weeks.
- Facilitating PI Planning readiness by fostering Continuous Exploration, synthesizing Vision, Roadmap, and Backlogs, and conducting Pre- and Post-PI Planning meetings.
- Driving and leading economic decision-making by facilitating feature and capability estimation by teams and the roll-up to Epics, where necessary.
- Mitigating issues, risks, and dependencies at multiple levels.
- Serving as an escalation resource for ART impediments and providing significant input on resourcing to address critical bottlenecks.
- Collaborating with other major IT functions (i.e Application Development, IT Strategy and Operations) and as well as Product Management, Product Owners, and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment.
- Have expert knowledge and mastery of multiple Agile frameworks, principles and methodologies, including but not limited to Scrum, Kanban, XP, etc).
- Have expert knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
- Possess strong interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork and facilitation, with the ability to influence senior leaders across the organization and build consensus
- Are able to lead projects with large resource requirements, risk, and complexity.
- Have a comprehensive understanding of several business functions across the enterprise and anticipate internal and external business challenges.
- Bachelor’s degree in related discipline, or equivalent, is typically required.
- Scrum Master Certification (CSM, PSM, ACP) and other Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certifications (SAFe RTE, SAFe Advanced Scrum Master, SAFe Program Consultant (SPC)) is required
- 10 years of experience leading/coaching/mentoring in Agile principles and frameworks.
- Proven experience leading Scrum/Agile teams, including at least 1 year in an RTE role.
- Minimum 2 years’ experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Masters degree in related discipline is preferred
- Prior industry experience is highly preferred
- Prior experience leading Scrum/Agile teams in technical product delivery, preferably middleware, Data and Integration.
- Previous programming, testing, System Analysis, or System Architecture experience a plus
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match
- Short-term & long-term disability insurance
- Paid time-off and corporate holidays,
- Paid parental leave
- Company paid life insurance
CNO embraces flexibility and encourages you to work where you’re most productive. Associates who live within a 60-mile radius of a corporate office (Birmingham, Carmel, Chicago, Orlando and Milwaukee) have access to come into that office.
Associates who live outside of a 60-mile radius of a corporate office (Birmingham, Carmel, Chicago, Orlando and Milwaukee) may perform this role full-time work from home (WFH) from any US based location, as long as you are willing to work central or eastern time zone hours. All associates may be asked to travel to varying corporate offices periodically. Work cannot be performed from outside of the United States.
CNO provides life and health insurance, annuities, financial services, and workforce benefits solutions through our family of brands and supported by our associates and agents. Our customers work hard to save for the future, and we help protect their health, income and retirement needs with 3.2 million policies and more than $35 billion in total assets. Our 3,400 associates, 8,600 exclusive agents and independent partner agents guide individuals, families and businesses through a lifetime of financial decisions.
We are financially strong and well positioned for continued growth, and we are grounded in our core values of People Focused, Integrity, Customer Driven, and Excellence. We have offices in more than 260 communities in the U.S., including our headquarters in Carmel, Indiana, and corporate offices in Birmingham, Chicago, Orlando and Milwaukee.
At CNO Financial Group, we’re always looking forward—to the security and stability we help create for our insurance brands’ customers, and the growth we create within our own company. We're looking for ambitious people who want to do more. We'll provide you with opportunities to grow your skills through challenging professional experiences.
If you're looking for a culture that encourages development, helps you reach your potential, and rewards you for your contribution, then CNO Financial Group is right for you. For more information, visit CNOinc.com.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Compensation
Pay Range: $140,600.00 - $211,000.00 Annual
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
ReqID : JR169593
Job Type : Full time
Salary : $140,600 - $211,000
