Release Train Engineer/Sr. Scrum Master
| Company | TransUnion |
|---|---|
| Location | Burlington, ON, Canada |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience is required.
- A minimum of 10 years of applicable business experience in Information Technology and risk industry (credit or financial services background preferred).
- Scrum Master (SM) certification with 8+ years’ experience working with and coaching scrum teams.
- A minimum of 3 years’ experience as a Release Train Engineer (RTE) managing and facilitating Program Increment (PI) planning readiness, PI planning events, PI execution, and program level improvements etc.
- A minimum of 3-5 years’ experience in software application delivery including Agile delivery experience with globally distributed teams.
- Experience working in an Agile organization using Scrum, XP, Kanban, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
- Strong background in application delivery to guide and mentor teams in Adopting Agile principles and practices.
- Strong communicator with strong facilitation and collaboration skills.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate all ART ceremonies and events, as well as drive relentless improvement at the ART level.
- Understand the values and principles of Agile as outlined in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and be fully aligned to those values and principles.
- Build and manage timely communication channels with Stakeholders, escalate impediments, manage risk, and help ensure value delivery.
- Drive Lean-Agile transformation and engages in coaching leaders, teams, and SMs in the new processes and mindsets.
- Ensure program governance, and drive program level process improvement via PI Inspect & Adapt.
- Monitor the effectiveness of program processes and performance, and collaborate with the Product and GT teams on changes and improvements.
- Demonstrate a deep understanding of how teams deliver product/service in the current structure and how multiple teams interact to deliver value.
- Manage dependencies through tracking upstream, downstream and cross scrum collaboration with teams that are part of Value Stream(s).
- Manage the implementation of reporting standards/KPIs across the ART and assist tracking the execution of features and capabilities.
- Active membership in the RTE Community of Practice helping the organization to maintain alignment, learn new techniques, and improve technical and quality practices. Work with the RTE community to determine ways to help ARTs across the company relentlessly improve.
Preferred Qualifications
- Certification(s) in Agile methodologies (e.g., CSM, CSPO, CSP, PMI ACP, SA, SPC, RTE, SSM, SASM).
- Experience with Lean Portfolio Management facilitation for program, portfolio, or executive-level.
- Strong understanding of and demonstrated experience in using Clarity PPM, Confluence and Jira.
- Experience with creating delivery metrics at team and ART levels to use for coaching/mentoring, retrospectives and for management awareness.
- Experience applying Lean Thinking and Systems Thinking in large organizations.
- Experience with Agile methodologies and Agile at Enterprise scale.
- Prior experience with Agile Transformation activities.