Release Train Engineer - Plano, United States - Bank of America

Description

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection.

Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world.

We're devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone.

We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference.

Join us

Position Summary:
This

role facilitates

and guides multiple agile teams and BAs across the Value Steam on Agile practices and develop their understanding of Agile principles.

Guides and Manages how to use Agile/Scrum concepts, values, practices and principles focusing on team effectiveness.

This job is responsible for managing dependencies, providing visibility into delivery plans and progress, promoting agile principles and mindset through coaching, and enabling continuous improvement across multiple scrum teams.

Job Description Summary:

This job is responsible for optimizing the flow of epics, features, and the value delivered by a smaller Agile Release Train, such as a Solution Train.

Key responsibilities include coordinating and facilitating the Solution Train ceremonies, managing dependencies, providing visibility into the health of epic and feature delivery and the overall program increment, and promoting agile principles and mindsets through coaching.

Job expectations include ensuring impediments to epic and feature delivery are resolved quickly to avoid disruptions and participating in budget and resource planning.

Job Responsibilities:
Guides and coaches leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters in the Agile Release Train on Agile practices and develops their understanding of Agile principles
Executes program increment session for release train and facilitates Agile release train ceremonies
Provides status updates regarding Agile Release Train plans, delivery, timelines, and impediments to stakeholders and leadership while communicating within the Agile Release Train to support delivery against program commitments
Manages risk including dependency management, impediment removal, and compliance with Enterprise Change Management and other policy requirements
Measures Agile Release Train delivery, maturity, and performance and reviews the metrics with the Agile Release Train to identify improvement opportunities
Collaborates with the product management team and ensures the program has a healthy product and program backlog
Defines norms and agreements for the Agile Release Train and enforces the agreements

Required Qualifications:
A Bachelor's degree in technical field or equivalent work experience
Release train engineer experience
Strong Agile understanding with a comprehensive combination of execution and training in Scrum methodology
Demonstrated experience in facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and understanding facilitation techniques
Excellent planning, organization, and time management skills
Ability to influence, remove obstacles, and motivate people without direct line management authority
Strong communication skills and the ability to quickly address issues or problems
Ability to coach and build a collaborative team of diverse individuals
Ability to assign and delegate tasks appropriately, ensure alignment with priorities and schedule, and ensure the team is fully deployed and productive
Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principles
Outstanding facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills
Knowledge of an Agile framework or method (e.g., Scrum, Kanban) and understanding of software development lifecycle models
Proficiency in refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques
Experience in planning and problem-solving with product management and delivery teams

Desired Qualifications:
Professional Scrum Master (PSM) certification, including PSM Levels 1, 2, and 3
Completion of the Certified Scrum Developer course
Experience with ServiceNow and using Jira for Agile project management techniques
Intermediate working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Experience using meeting software such as WebEx, Zoom, and Skype

Skills:
Agile Practices
Influence
Solution Design
Stakeholder Management
Business Acumen
DevOps Practices
Solution Delivery Process
Technical Strategy Development
Result Orientation
User Experience Design

Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)


Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection.

Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world.

We're devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone.

We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference.

Join us

Position Summary:
This

role facilitates

and guides multiple agile teams and BAs across the Value Steam on Agile practices and develop their understanding of Agile principles.

Guides and Manages how to use Agile/Scrum concepts, values, practices and principles focusing on team effectiveness.

This job is responsible for managing dependencies, providing visibility into delivery plans and progress, promoting agile principles and mindset through coaching, and enabling continuous improvement across multiple scrum teams.

Job Description Summary:

This job is responsible for optimizing the flow of epics, features, and the value delivered by a smaller Agile Release Train, such as a Solution Train.

Key responsibilities include coordinating and facilitating the Solution Train ceremonies, managing dependencies, providing visibility into the health of epic and feature delivery and the overall program increment, and promoting agile principles and mindsets through coaching.

Job expectations include ensuring impediments to epic and feature delivery are resolved quickly to avoid disruptions and participating in budget and resource planning.

Job Responsibilities:
Guides and coaches leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters in the Agile Release Train on Agile practices and develops their understanding of Agile principles

Executes program increment session for release train and facilitates Agile release train ceremonies

Provides status updates regarding Agile Release Train plans, delivery, timelines, and impediments to stakeholders and leadership while communicating within the Agile Release Train to support delivery against program commitments

Manages risk including dependency management, impediment removal, and compliance with Enterprise Change Management and other policy requirements

Measures Agile Release Train delivery, maturity, and performance and reviews the metrics with the Agile Release Train to identify improvement opportunities

Collaborates with the product management team and ensures the program has a healthy product and program backlog

Defines norms and agreements for the Agile Release Train and enforces the agreements


Required Qualifications:
A Bachelor's degree in technical field or equivalent work experience

Release train engineer experience

Strong Agile understanding with a comprehensive combination of execution and training in Scrum methodology

Demonstrated experience in facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and understanding facilitation techniques

Excellent planning, organization, and time management skills

Ability to influence, remove obstacles, and motivate people without direct line management authority

Strong communication skills and the ability to quickly address issues or problems

Ability to coach and build a collaborative team of diverse individuals

Ability to assign and delegate tasks appropriately, ensure alignment with priorities and schedule, and ensure the team is fully deployed and productive

Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principles

Outstanding facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills

Knowledge of an Agile framework or method (e.g., Scrum, Kanban) and understanding of software development lifecycle models

Proficiency in refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques

Experience in planning and problem-solving with product management and delivery teams


Desired Qualifications:
Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification

Professional Scrum Master (PSM) certification, including PSM Levels 1, 2, and 3

Completion of the Certified Scrum Developer course

Experience with ServiceNow and using Jira for Agile project management techniques

Intermediate working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Experience using meeting software such as WebEx, Zoom, and Skype


Skills:
Agile Practices

Collaboration

Influence

Solution Design

Stakeholder Management

Architecture

Business Acumen

DevOps Practices

Solution Delivery Process

Technical Strategy Development

Financial Management

Result Orientation

Risk Management

Test Engineering

User Experience Design


Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)


Hours Per Week:
40
About Us

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