Product Manager/Release Train Engineer
Lansing MI
12 months Contract
Phone/Skype
MUST BE A CITIZEN
•Establishes the release schedule and maintain alignment across with Product Management, Product Owners, and other stakeholders
•Facilitates the creation of the product and release backlogs by overseeing requirements analysis and ensuring each user story in the backlog is well written, sufficiently granular, and buildable
•Leads and facilitates Program Increment (PI) planning events
•Assists with program execution and Product feature completion tracking
•Facilitates Scrum of Scrums
•Escalates and drives impediment resolution at the Program level
•Encourages team collaboration
•Works with Portfolio and Product Management, Product Owners and stakeholders to help assure strategy and execution alignment
•Helps manage risk and dependencies
•Develops Release metrics and reports status to Management
•Provides input on resourcing to address critical bottlenecks
•Encourages team and program level Quality Practices and Communities of Practice around SAFe, Scrum, and Agile program management
•Participates in enterprise program management improvement and standardization activities
•Assists execution and completion tracking via quantifiable metrics
•Produce deployment plans and create release reports in JIRA
•Coordinate and lead the Go-Live activities ?
•Measure and monitor progress to ensure application releases are delivered as expected
•Work with dev ops engineers and or development to understand impacts of branches and code toggling
•Coordinate release notes and validate release build and toggles
US citizen required - must be an RTE, acting as an RTE
Required Skills:
•Experience in Agile and Scrum working with multiple Agile Teams
•Experience incorporating Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery practices in Agile Teams
•At least two years of experience gathering and validating user stories
•Good understanding of modern software development tools and techniques
•Experience using Agile Tools such as JIRA, Rally, or VersionOne
•Knowledge of continuous integration, build, and build verification tools and methodologies
•Experience leading in an Agile environment
•Demonstrated leadership in process improvement and innovation
•Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
•Advanced knowledge of software development lifecycle
•Knowledge of automated release management principles and toolsets
•Ability to coordinate cross-functional work teams toward task completion
•Ability to work independently and prioritize work assignments, based on changing business needs
Preferred Skills:
Experience in SAFe and running SAFe PI planning sessions
•Scrum Master certification
•SAFe practitioner (SA) certification
•Experience with Jenkins, Git, and Confluence toolsets
•PMP certification
Qualifications:
•Required Education: Bachelors Required, preferred BS in Computer Science or related field
•Years of Experience: At least 5 years of experience as Project Manager and/or Scrum Master in software development