Project Management Specialist Jobs in New Jersey

Role description

Agile Coach Release Train Engineer

This role is responsible for optimizing the flow of epics/features and the value delivered by an Agile Release Train (ART) and is focused on serving the needs of the train to drive performance and growth. Key responsibilities include coordinating and facilitating the ART ceremonies, managing dependencies across teams in the ART, and providing visibility into the health of epic/feature delivery and the overall program increment. This role ensures impediments to epic/feature delivery are resolved quickly and protects the teams from outside disruptions to delivery. 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

• Guide and coach the teams on the Agile Release Train on Scrum practices and develop their understanding of Agile principles
• Help define norms/agreement for the ART and enforce the agreements
• Coordinate and facilitate ART ceremonies, for example, Backlog Refinement, Program Increment (PI) Planning, ART Sync or PO Sync, Scrum of Scrums, System Demos, and Retrospective
• In collaboration with the Product Manager, ensure the program has a healthy product/program backlog
• Facilitate dependency management, risk management, and impediment removal for the ART
• Promote/facilitate communication and collaboration within the ART to support value delivery and PI commitments
• Responsible for providing status updates and reporting pertaining to ART plans, delivery timelines, impediments to stakeholders and leadership
• Ensure Enterprise Change Management and other policy requirements for technology solutions are met for the epics/features delivered by the ART
• Measure ART delivery maturity and performance and review the metrics with the ART to identify improvement opportunities
• Capture data to help determine/track product funding and resource acquisition needs
• Mentor more junior Scrum Masters and Product Owners

Required Skills

• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certified with 3-5 years prior Lean Agile Release Train experience
• Experienced as Release Train Engineer and Agile Coach for 5-7 years
• Proficiency in JIRA/JIRA Align
• Experienced in working with geographically distributed teams
• Proficient knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework and ability to ensure the program and portfolio level stakeholders adopt these practices
• Experience providing leadership skills for driving an Agile Release Train (ART) using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Expert facilitator responsible for facilitating feature refinement, prioritization, other ART ceremonies, and team-level ceremonies
• Prior experience in leading all SAFe ceremonies: Program Increment (PI) planning, Scrum of Scrums (SoS), ART Sync meetings, Solution Demos, and Inspect & Adapt (IA) workshops
• Capability and mindset to be a servant leader of a Release Train and responsible for listening to and removing impediments for geographically distributed scrum teams
• Experience as a Scrum Master working with multiple teams

LOCATION

Work location: Pennington or Jersey City

Need to travel to NYC at least once in two weeks

Skills

Mandatory Skills: Project Governance, Project Planning

Other details

Actual compensation within the range will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, performance, and internal equity.

Benefits and Perks:

• Comprehensive Medical Plan Covering Medical, Dental, Vision
• Short Term and Long-Term Disability Coverage
• 401(k) Plan with Company match
• Life Insurance
• Vacation Time, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays
• Paid Paternity and Maternity Leave

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Benefits

Compensation range: $98,000.00 to $146,000.00 per year

About LTM

LTM is an AI-centric global technology services company and the Business Creativity partner to the world’s largest and most disruptive enterprises. We bring human insights and intelligent systems together to help clients create greater value at the intersection of technology and domain expertise. Our capabilities span integrated operations, transformation, and business AI — enabling new ways of working, new productivity paradigms, and new roads to value. Together with over 87,000 employees across 40 countries and our global network of partners, LTM — a Larsen & Toubro company — owns business outcomes for our clients, helping them not just outperform the market, but to Outcreate it.

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