Release Train Engineer

Company: iSpace Inc.
Location: Denver
Posted on: March 20, 2023

Job Description:

Title - Release Train Engineer
Location - - 100% Remote
Contract Duration - March 2023 - September 30, 2023, with a strong possibility of extension and could transition into a contract to hire in the future

We are looking for a Certified SAFe Agile RTE will be helping one of our client's teams that is new from transferring from using Waterfall to SAFe and serve as an Agile Coach to guide them through this change. Help align everything within this team over to a SAFE. - This RTE will run all the team's Scrum Team meetings and help coordinate the Scrum Masters across the work. This person will also have some Release Management duties as this group works with a 3rd party vendor for production releases. This RTE will look at the dependencies, scheduling and planning out the releases, make sure all teams have standard communications, doing release readiness to ensure teams are all ready for production. This individual will also manage the PI Planning event. Primary duties will include: -

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• Coach and train team on Release Management and SAFe Agile
  
• Work with 3rd party vendors and internal team members on managing release and coordinating with other teams, during the release.
  
• Focus on release coordination with the 3 rd party vendor.
  
• Work on Production Exemption Client Authorization (PECA) approval permissions with 3 rd party vendor.
  
• Focus on IT Cross team coordination, release management and dependency tracking.
  
• Coordinate the program scheduling, planning, and controlling of the release management lifecycle and delivery process between teams.
  
• Plan the release of program deliverables and release life cycle.
  
• Schedule, coordinate between teams and deployment of release per the schedule.
  
• Define the strategic usage of release management tools.
  
• Identify risks that can delay the release and manage them, such that the scope scheduled, and quality of the release is not affected.
  
• Schedule the release readiness reviews/Go/No Go before deployment.
  
• Create plans for the implementation and deployment as per the release schedule.
  
• Communicate with release managers from different IT departments.
  
• Maintain documentation related to procedures on build and release, various notifications lists and dependencies.
  
  -Required Skills and Expertise: - -
  
  
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  • Must be a Certified - SAFe Agile Release Train Engineer
    
  • 3-5 years of experience serving as a Release Train Engineer with previous experience serving as a Scrum Master
    
  • Proven ability to manage Performance Improvement Planning Management (PIP)
    
  • Strong understanding of Release Management
    
  • Skilled in coaching and training
    
  • Excellent communication and coordination skills
    
  • Previous experience working with 3rd party vendors would be ideal
    
  • Agile Coach experience is a "nice to have"
    
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