Release Train Engineer New York, New York **To proceed with your application, you must be at least 18 years of age.** Acknowledge Refer a friend **To proceed with your application, you must be at least 18 years of age.** Acknowledge (https://ghr.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Lateral-US/job/New-York/Release-Train-Engineer\_25031417-1) **Job Description:** At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day. Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve. Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations. At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us! **Job Description:** This job is responsible for optimizing the flow of epics, features, and the value delivered by a smaller Agile Release Train, such as a Solution Train. Key responsibilities include coordinating and facilitating the Solution Train ceremonies, managing dependencies, providing visibility into the health of epic and feature delivery and the overall program increment, and promoting agile principles and mindsets through coaching. Job expectations include ensuring impediments to epic and feature delivery are resolved quickly to avoid disruptions and participating in budget and resource planning. This role ensures impediments to epic/feature delivery are resolved quickly and protects the teams from outside disruptions to delivery. They manage financials for the ART and assist with resource planning. In addition, they promote and coach the Agile mindset and principles, empowering individual teams to become self-managing and fulfill their cross-functional potential. **Responsibilities:** + Guides and coaches leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters in the Agile Release Train on Agile practices and develops their understanding of Agile principles + Executes program increment session for release train and facilitates Agile release train ceremonies + Provides status updates regarding Agile Release Train plans, delivery, timelines, and impediments to stakeholders and leadership while communicating within the Agile Release Train to support delivery against program commitments + Manages risk including dependency management, impediment removal, and compliance with Enterprise Change Management and other policy requirements + Measures Agile Release Train delivery, maturity, and performance and reviews the metrics with the Agile Release Train to identify improvement opportunities + Collaborates with the product management team and ensures the program has a healthy product and program backlog + Defines norms and agreements for the Agile Release Train and enforces the agreements **Required Qualifications:** **·** **8-10 Years of experience working as a** **Release Train Engineer.** + Deep understanding of Lean Portfolio Management process and roles + Demonstrate deep understanding of Jira + Experience in defining norms/agreements for the Solution Train and enforces the agreements. + Proven experience coordinating and facilitating Solution Train ceremonies –e.g. Backlog Refinement, Pre-PI Planning, Post-PI Planning, Solution Train Sync, Architect Sync, Solution Demo, and Retrospective. + Proven ability to Promotes/facilitates communication and collaboration within the Solution Train to support value delivery and PI commitments. + Experience Measuring Solution Train delivery, maturity, and performance and reviews the metrics with the Solution Train to identify improvement opportunities. + Has provided guidance about how to create and manage an intake process, healthy backlog, and how to facilitate valuable Agile ceremonies within established guardrails. + Experience with teams to optimize implementation of Enterprise Agile standards and practices, and coaches team members through change. **Desired Qualifications:** + Experience to identify and resolve organizational impediments that impact team maturity and performance. + Facilitates discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution across teams, stakeholders, and executives; including external teams, business partners, and other Agile Release Trains/programs. + Influences and guides business and technology leaders on changes that enable Agility. + Facilitates significant improvements to the operating model and the end-to-end delivery process. + Establishes/leads Agile Communities of Practice and provides guidance in on-going activities **Skills:** + Agile Practices + Collaboration + Influence + Solution Design + Stakeholder Management + Architecture + Business Acumen + DevOps Practices + Solution Delivery Process + Technical Strategy Development + Financial Management + Result Orientation + Risk Management + Test Engineering + User Experience Design **Shift:** 1st shift (United States of America) **Hours Per Week:** 40 Bank of America and its affiliates consider for employment and hire qualified candidates without regard to race, religious creed, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote the concept of equal employment opportunity, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, provincial and municipal laws. 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