Australian Citizens residing in Australia with Baseline Clearance only need to respond.
Key Skills and Experience:
* At least 1-year recent experience as a Release Train Engineer (RTE) in a Commonwealth environment.
* Experience working in agile software development and project delivery.
Role Deliverables:
* Manage and optimize the flow of value through the Agile Release Train (ART) using Program Kanban and Enterprise Agile tools.
* Establish and communicate the Program Increment and Iteration calendar of events, in collaboration with Agile Headquarters.
* Plan, prepare and facilitate the Program Increment (PI) planning event, working with Product Management and Enterprise Architecture to ensure Product Vision, Roadmaps, Backlogs are ready.
* Summarize and publish Team PI Objectives into Program PI Objectives.
* Track and report on the progress of Features throughout the PI.
* Coordinate and facilitate the Scrum of Scrums or ART sync events.
* Assist with prioritization and sequencing decision making, by facilitating feature estimation by teams and roll-up to Epic estimation.
* Counsel leaders, teams and Scrum Masters in Lean Agile practices and mindsets.
* Help manage risks and dependencies.
* Elevate and track impediments.
* Provide input on resourcing to address critical bottlenecks.
* Promote collaboration between teams and System, Solution and Enterprise Architects.
* Work with Product management and Product Owners, to ensure Strategy and execution alignment.
* Work with the Agile Release Train to improve and assess DevOps and Release practices.
* Understand and operate with Lean budgets and ensure adherence to Guardrails (i.e., Capacity allocation, horizon investment planning, approval of significant investments, continuous business owner engagement).
* Coordinate and facilitate System demonstrations and Showcases.
* Coordinate and facilitate Inspect and Adapt (i.e., System demo, Quantitative measurement analysis, Retrospective and problem-solving workshops) to drive relentless improvement.
* Foster Built-in Quality practices across teams; such as Collective ownership, compliance to IT Methods, Policies and Standards, Pairing and Peer reviews, Automation and compliance to Definition of Done.
* Foster Communities of Practice.
* Foster a Continuous Learning culture to encourage individuals and teams to continually increase knowledge, competence, performance and innovation.
* Through the Systems team, guide and support the development of technical quality standards and practices.
* Coordinate, review and analyze whole Release train Metrics and Reports. Drive recommendations for continuous improvement.
Required Skills:
Project Delivery, Kanban, Analysis, Architects, Investments, DevOps, Product Management, Ownership, ART, Metrics, Reviews, Deliverables, Features, Continuous Improvement, Workshops, Problem Solving, Architecture, Automation, Software Development, Scrum, Strategy, Software Planning, Business Management.