Release Train Engineer

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How will you make an impact in this role?

Drives processes and execution oversight for Engineering Teams. Enables Product Engineering team productivity and agility by demonstrating SAFe/Agile/Scrum concepts and principles where appropriate. Focuses on team execution Organizational Context. Member of a product delivery team reporting to PD&I director. Key Responsibilities:

• Lead technical solutions and architecture design with the engineering & product team
• Drives team/release level processes demonstrating servant leadership coupled with domain knowledge and technical savviness
• Support product owners by ensuring backlog refinement and readiness
• Create data-driven insights into the delivery and execution of the team using relevant team level metrics
• Provide visibility into gaps, issues, risks, and opportunities across Agile teams
• Manages external relationships, e.g. product or vendor partners

Technical Skills:

• Understand the team's technical platforms and applications, and leading design & solutioning
• Live the Agile and SAFe Values and Principles
• Respectfully and purposefully challenge the status quo
• Inspires collaboration and quality practices between system architects, Agile teams, and product teams
• Provides guidance to ensure the timely identification and prioritization of technical infrastructure to support implementation of priority features and enablers, e.g. Architectural Runway
• Promotes compliance with SDLC standards across the team

Product Delivery & Integration:

• Influence without authority through effective change and leadership management
• Works in partnership with Product Owners and the core and extended team to build and prioritize the product backlog
• Responsible for tracking iteration progress, actively adding to design discussions, issue resolution, and removing obstacles to ensure sprint/iteration commitments are met

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical field, or equivalent work experience required; advanced degree preferred.
• 12+ years of technical delivery experience with a demonstrated track record of growing responsibility.
• Experience facilitating Agile, Scrum, or other rapid application development teams to deliver technology solutions on time, on budget, and to spec.
• Experience with design and coding across one or more platforms and languages a plus

High-performing Behaviors:

• Steer and deliver communications to all levels of leadership
• Builds high trust and creditability within the team through deep domain knowledge of the business and underlying technology
• Drives the DevOps, CI/CD (Continuous Integration /Continuous Deployment) mindset and practices within the team

Technology Core Competencies:

• Adaptive Communication
• Agile Practices
• Industry and Company Knowledge
• Technology Industry Trends Game Changers
• Courage, Curiosity, Ingenuity, Tenacity
• Enterprise and Business Architecture
• Release and Deployment
• Requirements Gathering and Definition
• Leadership, Analytical Thinking, Decision Making

Preferred Qualifications

• SAFe RTE or SPC training certification

Qualifications

Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 annually + bonus + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we'll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

• Competitive base salaries
• Bonus incentives
• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
• 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
• Career development and training opportunities

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

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We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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