Release Train Engineer

Why Wellmark
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We are a mutual insurance company owned by our policy holders across Iowa and South Dakota, and we’ve built our reputation on over 80 years’ worth of trust. We are not motivated by profits. We are motivated by the well-being of our friends, family, and neighbors–our members. If you’re passionate about joining an organization working hard to put its members first, to provide best-in-class service, and one that is committed to sustainability and innovation, consider applying today!

Why Wellmark Technology?Wellmark is building innovative, modern solutions using cutting edge technology. We are driving organizational transformation and business strategy by empowering our technology team to innovate new and elegant solutions to enhance the customer experience. Together, we are leaning into the future, owning the outcome, and driving organizational change to transform how we work.

Helpus lead change in direct support of Wellmark’s strategy. Elevate is an enterprise-wide initiative to evolve the way we work and a critical piece of Wellmark's new unified strategy to Make Health Care Better. Adopting Agile principles, a product-focused mindset, and a culture of iterative progress to empower employees will better position the organization to adapt to change, align with our strategic goals and improve the impact on the healthcare industry.

Elevate is not about changing who we are but how we work together.

The Release Train Engineer (RTE) coaches and supports an agile team of teams known as an agile release train (ART) by steering it to success and navigating the complexity of delivering outcomes in large, distributed environments. Aid in supporting teams through designing solutions with adoption and usage in mind. Facilitates ART activities and ceremonies, helps identify and resolve impediments and manages risks and dependencies.

The RTE role is key to implementing the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and accountable for the overall coordination, execution, and delivery of value through the program while ensuring alignment with company strategy, commitments, and goals.

Preferred:

• Tenured experience with SAFe. Prior experience as a Release Train Engineer within a SAFe organization.
• Experience using agile requirements management tools (e.g., Jira or Azure Dev Ops).
• Other agile certifications (A-CSM, PSM, or PMI-ACP).

Required:

• Bachelor's degree or direct and applicable work experience.
• Minimum 6 years of experience working as Release Train Engineer or Project/Program Manager working with agile teams, or other applicable change leadership roles.
• SAFe Release Train Engineer, SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) certification, or other transferable scaled agile experience within an organization.
• Demonstrated agile and/or lean product management competencies of value measurement, optimization and eliminating waste.
• Consulting skills required with excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal competencies.
• Demonstrated facilitation and influencing skills to drive decision-making among stakeholders with diverse perspectives and priorities.
• Strong abilities in negotiation skills and techniques used to drive results and hold others accountable while also having the ability to work well in a team environment and build and maintain relationships with other team members, departments, and customers.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex information in a condensed manner to various stakeholders, verbally and in writing, to achieve shared vision and goals. Ability to contribute to strategic discussions and the definition of business cases.
• Strong problem-solving and analytics skills.
• Ability to identify risks and deploy appropriate mitigation strategies to meet stakeholder/functional requirements.

a. Informally lead and coach the agile release train (ART) and is seen as one who possesses a strong understanding of agile and can execute and manage agile processes.

b. Plan, organize and facilitate ART ceremonies (e.g., program increment (PI) planning, ART sync, product owner (PO) sync, scrum of scrums, and demos.

c. Act as a servant leader and communicator, with…