Ford Motor Company

Agile Release Train Engineer

Ford Motor Company

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

SeniorLead

Tech Stack

CloudPMP

About the role

  • Ford Credit Digital Engineering seeks a Release Train Engineer (RTE) to facilitate transparency across strategic initiatives and multi-team programs
  • Cultivate collaboration between product, design, and engineering to deliver high-impact, high-quality work and reduce ecosystem noise
  • Report to VP of Digital Engineering and influence Ford Credit Digital Engineering operating model and change across teams
  • Lead by example demonstrating Ford OS Behaviors of Excellence, Focus, and Collaboration
  • Conduct Agile Release Train operations: PI Planning, System Demos, Inspect & Adapt workshops, and ART Syncs
  • Support PI execution using JIRA, Confluence and related tools; ensure data integrity, workflows, cross-team alignment, and remove impediments
  • Enable Lean Portfolio Management: coordinate intake/prioritization, establish PI guardrails, monitor value stream health, and report portfolio metrics
  • Scale agile practices across multiple teams with LACE and foster a performance-oriented culture through metrics, retrospectives, and coaching

Requirements

  • 8+ years’ experience in an agile position (RTE, Scrum Master, Agile Coach), engineering delivery management, technical program management, product management, engineering or related area
  • Experience and demonstrated understanding of multiple modern delivery practices in Agile, Lean, DevOps, Product and Portfolio Management, etc.
  • Extensive experience using, managing, and supporting teams with application lifecycle management (ALM) tools, such as Jira, Confluence, etc.
  • Strong verbal and written communications skills with the ability to influence the enterprise
  • 10+ years’ experience (preferred) in an agile position or related area
  • Previous industry experience in software development at a Finance, FinTech, and/or Automotive company (preferred)
  • Relevant industry certifications (PMP, SAFe, Scrum.org, Scrum Alliance, ICAgile, LCM, etc.) (preferred)
  • Technical background with the ability to empathize with engineers and understand high-level technical challenges (preferred)
  • Experience managing complex programs with cloud-native technologies and service-oriented or SaaS based solutions (preferred)