AT&T Hiring for Release Train Engineer – Techinical at Bengaluru, India Full Time

Responsibilities for release train engineer

• Mastery of complex facilitation and dependency management techniques (cross-team, cross-department)

• Drive cross-team, ART and departmental impediments, planning, collaboration, and coordination

• Drive delivery and continuous improvement by utilizing feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc) to identify areas of opportunity

• Work across stakeholders and teams to continuously improve

• Understand domain architecture and upstream/downstream dependencies

• Provide regular and open communication across the program and stakeholders for transparency and awareness of progress and impediments

• Help establish governance structure where decision-making is weighted toward empowered teams

• Helps the team plan and meet their daily and iteration objectives

• Ensure that the Program has high visibility and understanding of the critical data for the release train – dependencies, issues and risks, Inspect & Adapt plans, train-level metrics, and communicates appropriately

• Co-ordinates and facilitates interactions with all shared services teams, including Release Management

• Ensures collaboration and dependency management within and between ARTs

• Monitors, manages and escalates impediments and risks across the ART

• Establishes the release schedule working with 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

• Assists with program execution and Product Implement feature completion tracking

• Escalates and attempts to resolve impediments

• Works with Product Owners to help assure strategy and execution alignment

• Gathers metrics and reports status to Management

• Assists execution and completion tracking via quantifiable metrics

• You will be responsible for facilitating Program Increment Readiness via fostering the preparation of Vision and Backlogs

• Responsible for leading Agile project coordination to support various upstream and downstream teams

• Introduce and help your team thrive in leveraging Test Driven Development, Test Automation and Continuous Delivery practices

Qualifications for release train engineer

• 5+ years large/complex program software delivery/program management covering all aspect of SDLC

• 5+ years’ experience in managing complex software programs and services as a program manager, release train engineer or similar technical role in a software development environment

• Outstanding collaboration skills, prior experience working in a matrix and geographically distributed organization

• Highly organized and execution focused, accountable and driven

• Proven track record of shipping high quality products on-time

• Technical knowledge with a desired emphasis on current industry trends including cloud-based development and Agile development techniques

• Strong skills in communication, risk assessment, change management, stakeholder management, and the ability to influence and convince

• Experience working with external agencies/contracts to complete work streams

• Knowledge and proven skills in Agile Project Managemen

• Strong project management of large implementation of platforms, ideally with an APAC remit

• Knowledge of the Loyalty industry is highly advantageous as is experience within the payments industry

• Effectively deal with difficult situations

• Minimum 7 – 10 years of professional work experience, with 6+ years of experience in a RTE role, and 5-6 years Data and Analytics Product Management experience or any combination of education and experience

• Agile certifications (e.g., CSM, CSP, CSC, Scrum.org, ICAgile, PMI-ACP, SAFe RTE)

Education:

• Bachelor/Masters level degree or equivalent in Computer Science, or related field of study.

Certification:

• SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) / Release Train Engineeer(RTE) certification from SAFe Agile.

AT&T will consider for employment qualified applicants in a manner consistent with the requirements of federal, state and local laws

We expect employees to be honest, trustworthy, and operate with integrity. Discrimination and all unlawful harassment (including sexual harassment) in employment is not tolerated. We encourage success based on our individual merits and abilities without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or employment status