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GE Vernova Staff Release Train Engineer in Hyderabad, India
Job Description Summary
Release Train Engineer (RTE) provides guidance in Agile, Scrum, and SAFe and leads Agile delivery teams consisting of a mix of organization and possibly contractor/vendor staff. The core of the Release Train Engineer (RTE) role is to coordinate, track and report on the status of an engineering product release. RTEs work jointly with stakeholders to create a clear plan for a product release, convey that plan to stakeholders and then track to ensure successful delivery.
Release train engineers (RTEs) have an important role in Agile Release Trains (ARTs). By supervising the ART, they help ensure teams develop quality solutions that contribute to project success.
Managing/coordinating release schedules working across a very complex landscape of multiple applications, platforms, and delivery frameworks. This role is ideal for someone with a blend of technical expertise, operational excellence, leadership skill set, and with strong prioritization, facilitation, and communication skills.
Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
Maintain the plan of record for a product release.
Track status, maintaining dashboards and reports.
Work with cross-functional teams to ensure product features are delivered.
Monitor progress to ensure application releases are delivered on time and within budget.
Communicate status to all stakeholders. Be the point of contact for the product allowing scrum teams to focus on execution.
Manage risks and resolve issues that affect release scope, schedule, or quality.
Manage the release backlog; continuously order and prioritize.
Engage frequently with the scrum teams to review progress, facilitate action resolution, remove impediments.
Prioritize continuously in accordance with the understanding and validation of customer problems and needs.
Coordinate with Services and support to schedule resolution of issues with released product.
Conduct Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews.
Maintain a release repository and manages key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists.
Continually work towards making improvements in the release process.
Managing the ART flow of value, or steps used to create value for the project.
Coordinating and aligning ART activities with the organization's strategic goals.
Implementing PI planning events and monitoring their progress.
Encouraging teams within the ART to collaborate on certain tasks to meet goals.
Promoting improvement through inspect and adapt (I&A) events after PI completions.
Helping keep the ART productive by ensuring the use of lean-Agile processes.
Education Qualification and Experience
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Management of Information Systems or “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with minimum 8-10 years of experience.
The person should have 1-2 years of prior experience as an RTE.
Other skills to include:
Extensive use and experience with Azure Dev Ops, Jira or a similar technology.
Good understanding of Scrum, Kanban, Lean, SAFe.
The following Certifications are preferred: SAFe, Release Tain Engineer, Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), SAFe Scrum Master (SSM), SAFe Advanced Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or other related certifications.
Exposure to Java/J2EE, Microservices, SQL and NoSQL based solutions, Cloud deployments, containers, and continuous integration, RESTful services would be good.
Business Acumen:
• Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems
• Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts
• Demonstrates awareness about competitors and industry trends
• Has the ability to analyze impact of technology choices
Other Skills:
• Ability to takes ownership of small and medium sized tasks and deliver while mentoring and helping team members
• Ensures understanding of issues and presents clear rationale. Able to speak to mutual needs and win-win solutions. Uses two-way communication to influence outcomes and ongoing results
• Identifies misalignments with goals, objectives, and work direction against the organizational strategy. Makes suggestions to course correct
• Continuously measures deliverables of self and team against scheduled commitments. Effectively balances different, competing objectives.
Personal Attributes:
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Effective team building and problem-solving abilities
• Persists to completion, especially in the face of overwhelming odds and setbacks. Pushes self for results; pushes others for results through team spirit.
Additional Information
Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes