Release Train Engineer

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. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Job Description:

The Release Train Engineer is responsible for optimizing the flow of epics, features, and the value delivered by a smaller Agile Release Train, such as a Solution Train.

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
• Promoting agile principles and mindsets through coaching
• Job expectations include ensuring impediments to epic and feature delivery are resolved quickly to avoid disruptions
• Organization of work objectives, coordinating delivery, facilitating sync points across teams, providing end-to-end visibility into the health of the deliverables, and managing program risk

• 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
• Facilitates communication and collaboration across organizations to support the deliverable completion and timeline

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in Technology change management, following the BofA Enterprise Change Policy
• 5+ years of experience with Enterprise Change Management tools such as JIRA, and ITSM Remedy (e.g., Release Manager, Change Management, Incident Management) application tools
• 5+ years of experience working on a Technology team supporting application or infrastructure components in various roles such as Technology Project Manager (TPM) or as a Test lead, or Release change lead

Desired Qualifications:

• Technology Project Management skills with emphasis on the understanding of the BofA Change Lifecycle
• Strong organizational skills
• Strong verbal and written skills; able to lead conference calls with confidence
• Able to drive the successful closure of issues that impact their space or change event
• Independent worker, self-motivated
• Able to work closely with onshore U.S. and global partners, with emphasis on building strong relationships and exchanging information

Skills:

• Critical Thinking
• Data Privacy and Protection
• Information Systems Management
• Problem Solving
• Technology System Assessment

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

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