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:

This job 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, 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.

Perform Release Train Engineer role for the CCUT Platforms & Horizontals Train supporting Consumer Credit Underwriting Technology Portfolio. Role will involve coaching the teams & SM's to improve their agile efficiency and will host all agile ceremonies for the train. The RTE will be responsible for ART Syncs, Portfolio Review, Risk/Dependency tracking, PI Readiness and Planning, Status reporting, and Improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Required Qualifications:

• Perform Release Train Engineer with 5+ years of experience.

• Strong knowledge and experience working with agile delivery teams in a SAFe (Scaled Agile Frameworks) environment.

• Portfolio/Program management skills and experience

• Process efficiency and continuous delivery.

• Agile tool proficiency – Jira, Confluence, Jira Align, etc.

• Strong Release Train Engineer role knowledge, PI Readiness, Planning, risk and dependency management skills.

• Strong Report building skills Confluence/Tableau/Excel.

• Strong Excel/Data skills.

Desired Qualifications:

• SAFe Release Train Engineer certification or SAFe SPC Certification

• SAFe Scaled Agile certification

Skills:

• Agile Practices

• Collaboration

• Influence

• Solution Design

• Stakeholder Management

• Architecture

• Business Acumen

• DevOps Practices

• Solution Delivery Process

• Technical Strategy Development

• Financial Management

• Result Orientation

• Risk Management

• Test Engineering

• User Experience Design

Minimum Education Requirement: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.

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