Senior Specialist: Release Train Engineer at Liberty Group South Africa

Purpose

Facilitates the Agile Release Train events and processes and assists the teams in delivering value. The Release Train Engineer communicates with stakeholders, escalate impediments, helps manage risk, and drives relentless improvement. 

Key Responsibilities

• Understand and apply existing best practice frameworks to assist in the implementation of identified subject matter processes and standards.
• Provide specialist advice and support in area of accountability to ensure that identified solutions and recommendations are appropriate and effective.
• Provide ongoing facilitation and coaching that enables your team to excel at agile development.
• Facilitates meetings and helps teams find innovative ways of resolving dependencies and navigating complex business and technical trade-offs.
• Manages and optimises the flow of value through the Agile Release Train
• Manages programme backlog and maps to team and portfolio backlog.
• Optimises and records various tools, such as the Program Board and Solution Kanbans and other information radiators.
• Facillitates relentless improvement interventions, methodologies and processes for the Agile release train.
• Collaborates with scrum masters to understand outcomes of retrospective continuous improvement backlog items.
• Coordinate cross ART deliveries with relevant ART and stakeholders.

Additional Key Responsibilities

• Operates as a servant leader for the Agile Release Train by coaching and mentoring Scrum Masters and Product Owners.
• Continually promotes and fosters systems thinking within the Agile Release Train.
• Continually asks, inquires and poses powerful and insightful questioning to enable critical thinking skills in the teams.
• Updates the Program Board and Program Kanban and other information radiators.
• Facilitating PI Planning readiness including pre and post planning events, and the event itself
• Facilitating dependency management or impediment resolution through Scrum of Scrums/PO Syncs and other Agile Release Train events.
• Defining metrics in alignment with Liberty Portfolio Management Office and other stakeholders.
• Tracking and communicating key Agile Release Train execution metrics and making them visible on current work management tools and Kanban boards.
• Provides support in tracking of metrics at Team and Agile Release Train level.

Minimum Experience

• 3 - 5 years experience in a similar environment, of which 1 -2 years at a junior specialist level

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas [NQF Level 07] in Information Technology and Computer Sciences

Additional Minimum Qualifications

• Scrum Master Certification
• SAFe Scrum Master certification
• SAFe Release Train Engineering certification
• Agile Product management