Role: Release Train Engineer / Agile Consulting Manager

Location: Canada (Remote)

Type: Contract

Job Responsibilities Include:

- Play an active part in the Agile community and help to drive initiatives forward across CLIENT and our clients
- Execute small-scale maturity assessments to meet the client where they are on their agile journey, while helping them move forward
- Actively looks for and influences opportunities to drive expansion of the account
- Structure a portfolio/program and create the appropriate structure, meeting cadences and communication channels
- Serve as Agile Subject Matter Expert, helping define roles and responsibilities and on scaling Agile development
- Coach clients on transition from waterfall to Agile development and devising and implementing strategies to increase Agile adoption
- Promote a culture of innovation by fostering implementation of Agile values, principles, and practices, which include techniques to increase collaboration, predictability, transparency, and velocity
- Find solutions to complex problems through critical thinking, engagement, and collaboration
- Coordinate between and among Agile teams for progress, impediment resolution, and project management oversight
- Lead accountability, autonomy and empowerment within the teams and manage appropriate boundaries to achieve the result of having self-directed work teams
- Set overall Agile roadmap which should include Dual-track Agile, DevOps, Scrum/Kanban, with the objective to plan process improvements over time
- Return-on-investment analysis to determine and understand business problems and outcomes
- Read an organization's next need in terms of sales, having those face-to-face conversations with the client stakeholders
- Create Business SOWs & work effectively with the team on Strategic Discovery initiatives
- Be the face and voice for the CLIENT team to client leadership and set client expectations
- Lead the collaborative planning for the appropriate short-term and long-term next steps for the client




- Collaborate effectively across practices, including Product Experience (Product Mgmt., Agile, CLIENT Experiences Studio, Technical Architecture), and Engineering, and the Field
- Burn Up Charts in the CLIENT format with a scope line are updated each Sprint
- Empower reporting team members with knowledge/tool/training so that they can trusted to complete their tasks in his / her absence
- Understand CLIENT Leadership Competency Framework thoroughly and develop relevant competencies
- Act as Career Coach for 1-2 Team Members
- Coach Agile teams in Pragmatic Agile
- Step into a Lead position, mentoring and coaching a small group of your peers by providing explicit and actionable feedback
- Expected to be involved in and lead Agile Guild presentations, marketing outreach, blog creation, and other articles to drive CLIENT forward and providing training to employees on the Agile process
- Handle difficult discussions with senior executives
- Oversee the work of staff and will be active participants in managing and improving internal process flow
- Provide senior management with accurate and timely information necessary to make key client decisions

Basic Qualifications:

- 5+ years of consulting experience with a focus in the Agile environment
- 5+ years working as a Scrum Master
- 2+ years coaching teams leveraging Scrum and Kanban frameworks
- SAFe RTE Certification

Preferred Skills:

- Demonstrate excellent communication, collaboration, and diplomacy skills to guide, influence and convince others in their adoption of the Agile mindset
- Experience in regularly interacting, training, and coaching
- Proven success leading large projects ($500K+)
- Embraces servant leadership, understands engineering practices and serves as a role model for the team to model Agile behaviors and mindsets, which includes key mindset shifts in the journey to Agile

Recommended Certification(s):

- PSM III - Professional Scrum Master III
- SAFe RTE - Scaled Agile Framework Release Train Engineer
- PMI DAVSC Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant
- PMP PMI Project Management Professional

📌 Release Train Engineer / Agile Consulting Manager (Canada)
🏢 VDart
📍 Canada