Ford is looking for an Agile Release Train Engineer to drive program management and delivery excellence. In this role, you will facilitate transparency across strategic initiatives, cultivate collaboration between product, design, and engineering, and ensure smooth operations for complex programs.
What You'll Do
- Lead by example by demonstrating Ford OS Behaviors of Excellence, Focus, and Collaboration.
- Conduct Agile Release Train operations by serving as the chief coordinator for one or more ARTs, orchestrating all SAFe events including PI Planning, System Demos, Inspect & Adapt workshops, and ART Syncs.
- Support PI execution by leveraging JIRA, Confluence, and other related tools, ensuring data integrity, establishing workflows that track portfolio progress, facilitating cross-team alignment, and addressing impediments.
- Enable Lean Portfolio Management by coordinating the portfolio intake and prioritization process, establishing guardrails for PI commitments, monitoring value stream health and flow metrics, and providing transparent portfolio-level reporting.
- Scale agile practices across multiple teams by standardizing processes, facilitating cross-ART collaboration sessions, sharing best practices, and working with the Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE).
- Foster a performance-oriented culture by applying an empirical approach to relentless improvement through transparency, inspection, and adaption, creating a shared vision of success, and coaching teams and leaders.
What We're Looking For
- 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.
- Extensive experience using, managing, and supporting teams with application lifecycle management (ALM) tools, such as Jira, Confluence.
- Strong verbal and written communications skills with the ability to influence the enterprise.
Nice to Have
- 10+ years’ experience in an agile position (RTE, Scrum Master, Agile Coach), engineering delivery management, technical program management, product management, engineering or related area.
- Previous industry experience in software development at a Finance, FinTech, and/or Automotive company.
- Relevant industry certifications from institutions like PMP, SAFe, Scrum.org, Scrum Alliance, ICAgile, LCM.
- A technical background with the ability to empathize with engineers and understand high-level technical challenges.
- Experience managing complex programs with solutions relying on cloud-native technologies and service-oriented or SaaS based solutions.
Technical Stack
- JIRA
- Confluence
Team & Environment
Reports directly to the VP of Digital Engineering and works closely with the extended leadership team.
Benefits & Compensation
- Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care
- Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments
- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
- Tuition assistance
- Established and active employee resource groups
- Paid time off for individual and team community service
- A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time
Work Mode
This role follows a hybrid work mode and is open to candidates in commuting distance to a Ford hub location.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status.
