Release Train Engineer

Title - Release Train Engineer
Pay Rate - $122.22 per hour on W2
Hybrid - 2 days onsite 3 days remote

Day-to-Day Responsibilities/Workload

• Serve as a Release Train Engineer for an SAP S/4 ERP Implementation program that is using a hybrid agile implementation methodology.
• This role supports Release 2 (R2) Release Managers providing a holistic release management capability to ensure the successful delivery of the release and its related value.
• The release train engineer (RTE) coaches and supports an agile 'team of teams' known as an agile release train (ART).
• The RTE facilitates ART activities and ceremonies, helps identify and resolve impediments and manages risks and dependencies.
• The RTE performs IT performance management, measuring and reporting performance, providing critical insights into sprint execution and delivery risks.
• Provide critical risk management and mitigation support.

Required Skills/Attributes

• Large SAP ERP Technology Program/Project Implementation experience.
• Strategic Insights-based data analysis using various analytical tools and programming languages, Python, Power Automate, Power BI, etc.
• Data Mining: identify, extract, and gather data from various sources including databases, APIs, and other repositories to build comprehensive datasets for analysis.
• Data Visualization:
  Develop and maintain dashboards and visualizations that effectively communicate insights and support decision-making.
• Utilize visualization tools such as Power BI to present data findings clearly and effectively.
• IT Performance Management - measurement and reporting.
• Plan, organize and facilitate ART ceremonies.
• Assist in tracking and monitoring the execution of features and capabilities.
• Work with delivery teams to identify and address risks or impediments to achieving their objectives.
• Measure ART delivery, maturity, and performance and review metrics with the ART to identify improvement opportunities.
• Champion the use of key performance indicators (KPIs), objectives and key results (OKRs) and other outcome metrics across teams.
• Create timelines, milestones, and cadence of increments and releases for the ART, and oversee development of reports and analyses to track progress towards goals.
• Understanding of and experience with SAFe.
• Experience with agile frameworks such as Scrum or Kanban.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills (written, verbal, presentation).
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Experience using enterprise agile planning tools (e.g. Digital.ai Agility, Planview Smartsheet, Atlassian Jira Align, Apptio Clientprocess).
• 5+ years of experience with agile development, ideally in a scrum master, product owner, or other leadership role.
• Release Train Engineer experience preferred.
• Agile, Scrum, SAFe or project management certifications preferred (e.g. SA, SPC, RTE, CSM, CSP, PMI).
• Work with product managers, product owners, and other stakeholders to ensure alignment between business needs and the development work being executed by agile teams.
• Provide input on resourcing needs to address critical bottlenecks.
• Assist and facilitate feature and capability estimation by teams.