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Release Train Engineer

Bank of America

Bank of America

Other Engineering
Denver, CO, USA · United States · Remote
Posted on Jul 30, 2024

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!

Job Description:

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. The Release Train Engineer is also responsible for Change Management coordination, which includes maintaining a release cadence, communication of release dates and details, coordination of necessary release documentation, and ownership of change requests through their full lifecycle from creation to closure.

Responsibilities:

  • 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.
  • 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
  • Ownership of change requests from creation to closure with adherence to Enterprise Change Management and other policy standards
  • Coordinates release artifacts and evidence collection from multiple sources while meeting deadlines
  • Maintains a central release management tracking, reporting, approval, and escalation routines
  • Release implementation facilitation

Required skills:

  • 5+ years of active involvement in project management with strong track record of delivering projects/releases per expectations.
  • 5+ years leading large scale transformation programs, involving business process and change.
  • 5+ years of Agile experience in a change agent role.
  • Strong understanding of Agile principles, concepts, and ceremonies.
  • Adept at handling multiple tasks and pivots fluidly to support daily changing requirements.
  • Broad knowledge of the change policy, processes, environments, and tools as well as the risk control framework.
  • Experience in Release Management and Change Management
  • Experience in SDLC life cycle process
  • Experience in both technical and functional capacities.
  • Solid Verbal and Written communication skills

Desired skills:

  • SAFe SM & RTE certification
  • Scrum, Kanban, and Lean Agile experience
  • Proficient with Jira, Confluence, ITSM Remedy

This job will be open and accepting applications for a minimum of seven days from the date it was posted.

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40