Release Manager

**Role: Release Train Engineer - (EL1 and EL2 Level)**

Location of work: Canberra

Length of contract: 12 months

Contract extensions: 24 months extension (two extensions of twelve months each)

Security clearance: Baseline security clearance

**Requirements**:
Overview:
The Release Train Engineer (RTE) is a servant leader and coach for the Agile Release Train (ART).

The RTE’s facilitate the ART events and processes and assist teams in delivering value. They

communicate with stakeholders, escalate impediments, help manage risk, and drive relentless

improvement.

The RTE facilitates Agile Release Train and at times Solution Train processes and execution,

respectively. They escalate impediments, manage risk, help ensure value delivery, and help drive

relentless improvement. They participate in the Lean-Agile transformation, coaching leaders, teams,

and Scrum Masters in the new processes and mindsets. They help configure SAFe to the agency's

needs, standardising and documenting practices.

Key duties and responsibilities:

- Create strategies for the effective planning, monitoring, reporting, establishment, and outcomes

for an agile release train to deliver on the organisation's strategy and contribute to the creation of

value and the delivery of benefits from the projects or features/capabilities.
- Conduct complex release train events, including program increment planning, showcases or

demonstrations, scrum of scrums, inspect and adapt as well as synchronisation across the train

and improvement planning.
- Ensure alignment of all teams on the agile release train with the agile and scrum processes,

practices, patterns and principles and contribute to the organisations progress in agile maturity

through contributions to the organisation.
- Drive, manage and co-ordinate team objectives for the program increment, create and publish

roadmaps for visibility and transparency and anticipate, recognise and resolve impediments, solve

complex problems, identify patterns and manage dependencies.
- Provide leadership and direction to a release train and ensure employees maintain a high-level of

specialist, professional and/or technical expertise through coaching and training, and

implementing and promoting a climate of change and continuous improvement.
- Build and sustain mutually beneficial and collaborative relationships with clients and stakeholders,

including other Release Train Engineers, consult and share information with their own team and

maximise team strengths to achieve outcomes.
- Provide business critical authoritative and expert advice to senior managers and executive level

staff to define and implement governance frameworks for the release train.

assurance and change control processes to co
- ordinate quality reviews of documentation and

processes to ensure effective management of features and/or release train.

Champion Scaled Agile (SAFe) implementation in line with the departments Delivery Methods,

within their teams and across teams throughout the department.

Role Deliverables:

- Establish and communicate the Program Increment and Iteration calendar of events, in

collaboration with Agile HQ.
- Manage and optimise the flow of value through the ART using Program Kanban and Enterprise

Agile tools.
- Plan, prepare and facilitate the Program Increment (PI) planning event, working with Product

Management and Enterprise Architecture to assure Product Vision, Roadmaps, Backlogs are ready.
- Summarise 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 prioritisation and sequencing decision making, by facilitating feature estimation by

teams and roll up to Epic estimation.
- Coach leaders, teams and Scrum Masters in Lean Agile practices and mindsets.
- Help manage risks and dependencies.
- Escalate and track impediments.
- Provide input on resourcing to address critical bottlenecks.
- Encourage 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 ( ie Capacity

allocation, horizon investment planning, approval of significant investments, continuous business

owner engagement).
- Co-ordinate and facilitate System demonstrations and showcases.
- Co-ordinate and facilitate Inspect and Adapt (ie System demo, Quantative 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 Practi