Allstate Insurance Careers – Release Train Engineer

Website Allstate Financial Services, LLC

Job Description:

The Release Train Engineer (RTE) plays a critical role as a member of the Agile Transformation Office to help us move towards a lean/agile/product mindset and enable other organizations across Allstate to do the same. As a Release Train Engineer, you will be working with multiple to help us lead and support transformation initiatives.

The Release Train Engineer (RTE) is a servant leader and coach for the Agile Release Train (ART). The RTE’s major responsibilities are to facilitate the ART events and processes and assist the teams in delivering value. RTEs communicate with stakeholders, escalate impediments, help manage risk, and drive relentless improvement.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Report status to Agile Transformation Office leaders and support related activities
  • Assist tracking the execution of features
  • Manage and optimize the flow of value through the Agile Release Train (ART) using the Program Kanban and other information radiators
  • Facilitate periodic ART synchronization meetings
  • Work with the Product Manager, Product Owners, and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment
  • Assist with economic decision-making by facilitating feature estimation by teams and the roll-up to Epics, where necessary
  • Establish and communicate the calendars for Iterations and Program Increments (PIs)
  • Encourage collaboration between teams and System Architects/Engineering
  • Summarize Team PI Objectives into Program PI Objectives and publish them for visibility and transparency
  • Facilitate PI Planning readiness by fostering the preparation of Vision and Backlogs, and through Pre- and Post-PI Planning meetings and PI planning events for a global organization
  • Help manage risks and dependencies, Escalate and track impediments and Provide input on resourcing to address critical bottlenecks
  • Work with Agile coaches to help leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters understand Lean-Agile practices and mindsets
  • Drive relentless improvement via Inspect and Adapt workshops; assess the agility level of the ART and Solution Train and help them improve

Job Requirements:

  • 7+ years of experience in an enterprise technology organization in roles of either Program Management or Scrum Master
  • Experience implementing business critical, high volume, and highly available web-based applications is a must
  • Exposure to Test Driven Development (TDD) and CI/CD pipeline
  • Bachelors degree or equivalent experience
  • Scaled Agile certification required: SAFe Agilist (SA), RTE, or SPC
  • Experience working with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools (Jira, Rally, VersionOne)
  • Agile Coach experience is preferred
  • 3+ years of experience as a release Train Engineer
  • Exposure to Web, Mobile and cloud technology
  • Experience with Kanban, Scrum, SAFe, organizational change management

Job Details:

Company:  Allstate Financial Services, LLC

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Jacksonville, FL, US

Application Deadline: N/A

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