Release Train Engineer
Posted on: 13 Jul 2021
Lowell, MA
Job Description
What you will be doing:
As the Global eComm US group Release Train Engineer (RTE) you will be a leader on a large Agile Release Train (ART), a team of teams (200 people) that plan, commit, develop and deploy software together to deliver significant value to our merchant’s ecommerce transactions.
You will primarily be responsible for:
Acting as the train's focal point for communication and connections with all impacted teams needed to deliver on the work.
Planning and facilitating the train's quarterly Program Increment (PI) planning event, including the readiness/preparation activities in advance to ensure features are approved and teams are ready for a Planning session.
Work with senior leaders to ensure prioritization alignment, communication of identified risks and dependencies, and unify ART practices of our train with organizational initiatives and changes.
Responsible for agile budgets and forecasts related to people associated within the agile release train and feature allocation
Foster information sharing, creating a collaborative environment
Facilitate PI execution activities including Scrum of Scrums or ART Syncs, System Demos, Inspect & Adapts
Facilitate PI Planning event
Guide PI planning prep (briefings, features, demand intake process, capacity allocation, etc)
Communicates internally to the ART and externally to stakeholders about vision, priorities, PI event dates, release dates, PI objectives, successes, progress, learning, impediments, and needs
Coach Business Owners, Product Management, System Architects, and agile teams to understand and apply SAFe
Provide behavior enablers to help the ART increase business agility
Guide SMs to coach their teams effectively
Guide progress tracking and reporting, risk management
Advocate for people, skills, or resource gaps to be addressed
What you bring:
A minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree;
"Team focus" with strong collaboration and communication skills
Ability to quickly grasp high level business goals, derive requirements, and create effective testing
Ability to fluidly change context and priorities based on changing business needs
Communicative and social -- Must be able to communicate well with teams
Facilitative -- Must be able to lead and organize Program Increment Planning events for a large development train.
Reliable – Must be able to facilitate, guide, communicate, and execute on the (project) in-take demand process bridging development with finance to insure funding flow for Program Increment Planning events
Enthusiastic - Must be high-energy and appreciate the incremental growth that leads to an eventual large win
Continuous improvement -- Must continually be constructively looking for opportunities for improvement to pitch, try, refine, and try again
Attitude of transparency -- Must desire to bring disclosure and transparency to the business about development and grow business trust
Added bonus if you have:
Certified Scrum Master and or Certified Release Train Engineer
Experience in coaching train leaders, team leads, and team members (including scrum masters) in Lean-Agile practices and thinking
Prior experience working in a Scaled Agile Framework organization
What we offer you:
A multifaceted job with a high degree of responsibility and a broad spectrum of opportunities
The chance to work on some of the most challenging, relevant issues in financial services & technology
A work environment built on collaboration, flexibility and respect
FIS
Jacksonville, FL
FIS is a leader in technology and services that helps businesses and communities thrive by advancing commerce and the financial world.
For over 50 years, FIS has continued to drive growth for clients around the world by creating tomorrow’s technology, solutions and services to modernize today’s businesses and customer experiences. By connecting merchants, banks and capital markets, we use our scale, apply our deep expertise and data-driven insights, innovate with purpose to solve for our clients’ future, and deliver experiences that are more simple, seamless and secure to advance the way the world pays, banks and invests.
Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, FIS employs more than 55,000 people across 50+ countries, dedicated to helping our clients be ahead of what’s next. FIS offers more than 450 solutions and processes over $75b of transactions around the planet. FIS is a Fortune 500® company and is a member of Standard & Poor’s 500® Index.
For a better understanding of how FIS evolved into a world-renowned financial services technology leader, one needs to look back at the company's history.
The company was founded in 1968 as Systematics™, which was later acquired by ALLTEL Information Services, and then bought by title insurance giant Fidelity National Financial® in 2003, who renamed it Fidelity Information Services (FIS). Over the course of the next few years, FIS acquired several other financial technology firms, including Certegy® in 2006, eFunds® in 2007 and Metavante® in 2009.
These acquisitions broadened its reach across the globe, earned FIS a place on the Fortune 500 listing, and positioned the company as the largest technology provider to the global financial industry.
In 2015, FIS acquired SunGard, whose complementary offerings brought FIS into new markets for financial technology services, including asset managers, traders, custodians, treasurers, third-party administrators and clearing agents.
In Q3 2019, FIS acquired Worldpay, a global leader in e-commerce and payments, greatly expanding FIS’ capabilities by enhancing its acquiring and payment offerings and significantly increasing Worldpay’s distribution footprint.
This combination of organic and external growth has positioned FIS among the world's leading technology providers to the capital markets, retail banking and merchant industries. We connect the value chain and use our scale to develop solutions that enable our clients to grow confidently. We help our clients seamlessly adapt to innovations. We share insights and data with one another. We shape better experiences for clients and their customers alike. And we do all of this because at FIS we’re out to lift economies and communities across the world by relentlessly advancing the interests of commerce and the financial world.
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IndustryInformation Technology
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No. of Employees55,000+
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