Release Train Engineer - Agile/JIRA Adoption Lead

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:

This role will lead Agile/JIRA adoption across the organization and establish framework for agile/kanban teams Value Steam. Manage adoption of JIRA & Agile concepts, practices 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.

This job is responsible for establishing EIT’s Release/Solution Train & optimizing capacity/utilization across the program(s). Key responsibilities include coordinating and facilitating the Release/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

Team Overview 

Global Risk Analytics (GRA) and Enterprise Independent Testing (EIT) are sub-lines of business within Global Risk Management (GRM). Collectively, they are responsible for developing a consistent and coherent set of models, analytical tools, and tests for effective risk and capital measurement, management and reporting across Bank of America. GRA and EIT partner with the Lines of Business and Enterprise functions to ensure the capabilities they build address both internal and regulatory requirements, and are responsive to the changing nature of portfolios, economic conditions, and emerging risks. In executing their activities, GRA and EIT drive innovation, process improvement and automation. 

Role Overview 
The Release Train Engineer will lead Agile/JIRA adoption for a portfolio of tests focused on data testing (testing that evaluates enterprise data across the Bank’s data lifecycle, including capture, transport, and use, and provides critical insights into data accuracy, completeness and fitness for purpose, as well as the data health of bank data domains and in-scope processes and controls). The role entails establishing and implementing a framework for the use of Agile/Kanban techniques such as Value Stream. The candidate will utilize JIRA & Agile concepts to drive out timely and efficient execution of testing deliverables. The Release Train Engineer is responsible for establishing testing project plans, identifying and managing dependencies, and providing ongoing visibility into progress against deliverables. The candidate will promote agile principles and mindset through coaching, and enable continuous improvement across multiple scrum teams. The Release Train Engineer is responsible for escalating and resolving impediments to delivery and managing resources and capacity accordingly.  
 

Required Education 

• Undergraduate or masters degree from an accredited college or university 
• GPA of 3.5 or higher is preferred 
• 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 
•  Common areas of study include but are not limited to: Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics, Process and Mechanical Engineering, Operations Research, Data Science, Accounting, Business Administration, Audit Management, Risk Management

 
Required Qualifications 

• Expert JIRA/ Scrum/ Agile experience on large scale complex programs. Experienced in setting up and executing Program Increments 
• Technology Change Management (CRQ) & Release experience on large scale complex program(s) 
• Strong Agile understanding with a comprehensive combination of execution and training in Scrum methodology 
• Expert knowledge of an Agile framework or method (e.g., Scrum, Kanban) and understanding of software development lifecycle models 
• Experienced in establishing automated reports & metrics leveraging JIRA for tracking/ forecasting & managing work efforts across programs/teams 
• 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
• 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 

• Coding experience in Python leveraging systems such as GIT/Bitbucket
• Proficiency in leveraging Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 
• background/experience Risk management
• Data testing experience (across capture, transport and use: i.e. conformance, transaction, transport, controls and/or compliance/surveillance testing) 

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