Senior IT Project Manager - Release Train

Senior IT Project Manager – Release Train
• Boise, , US

• Plan and execute all activities related to program increment planning.
• Work with Service Delivery Managers and Product Managers to ensure strategy and execution alignment.
• Assist the Service Director with managing risks, escalating, and tracking impediments.
• Work with Scrum Masters to define and drive consistent practices across the Site Reliability Engineering teams.
• Define program dashboards to manage and report the status on product implementations.
• Assist Service Delivery Managers with tracking the execution of features and capabilities.
• Coaches, reviews, and delegates work to lower-level professionals.
• Facilitate scrum activities and meetings (daily standups, sprint planning, and retrospectives) between the Scrum Team and Product Owner(s).
• Lead one or more agile development efforts within the organization.
• Document areas of improvement and action items coming out of the sprint retrospectives.
• Work with Product Owner(s) to keep the backlog(s) groomed.
• Maintain and report on relevant sprint metrics.
• Administer and maintain the accuracy of the scrum board.
• Ensure quality standards for all deliverables and promote continuous process improvement.
• Act as a liaison between Development Teams and Product Management, ensuring that appropriate project process is made.
• Identify and resolve obstacles that may hinder the team from meeting project milestones/deadlines.
• Provide guidance, coaching, and training to other employees within the job area.
• Prepare for and facilitate release planning with teams.
• Assist in dependency management and cross‑team coordination.
• Facilitate continuous improvement and the development of a learning culture on teams.
• Facilitate ceremonies, collaboration, communication, and conflict management.
• Teach new team members Agile mindset and frameworks, practices, and process.
• Influence the organization in the removal of organizational impediments and development of healthy Agile practices.
• Mentor Product Owners and team members in agile practices and continuous improvement.
• Remove impediments to the team's ability to perform.
• Act as a buffer between external distractions to minimize disruptions.
• Assist in the coordination of operational issue resolution.
• Facilitate team development, mediate conflicts protecting the team and encourage healthy team dynamics.
• Foster team responsibility, self‑accountability, transparency and self‑organization.
• Leverage coaching skills to help the team learn to solve its own problems.
• Introduce and encourage the team to explore healthy Agile development practices, focus on quality and technical excellence, predictable delivery, automation, and continuous delivery.
• Teach and encourage a balanced backlog that delivers valuable features for customers, reduces technical debt, provides business value, and enables product sustainability.
• Help the team to develop, capture, and analyze metrics to facilitate team improvements.
• Promote transparency through healthy communications and data integrity.

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field of study.
• 7+ years of relevant professional experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 7+ years of working experience as a dedicated Scrum Master, Release Train Engineer, or Product Manager.
• Scrum Master certification or an equivalent certified professional.
• Working experience in one or more Agile methods or frameworks:
  Scrum or Kanban.
• Working experience with Agile scaling frameworks, preferably SAFe.

• Compensation is based on factors such as job location, education, training, experience and internal value analysis.
• Annual salary ranges between $ and $.
• May include short‑ and long‑term incentives and program‑specific awards.
• Health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan.
• Paid holidays and paid time off.
• Other benefits and rewards as appropriate to the role.

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