Your role: 

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Release Train Engineer with a strong background in Agile frameworks, particularly the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), and proficiency in Azure DevOps. The ideal candidate will facilitate Agile events, coach teams in Agile practices, and ensure the successful delivery of products. This role will be instrumental in driving our digital transformation journey, fostering an Agile mindset that embraces innovation, adaptability, and continuous improvement for all digital products of Enabling Functions with focus on Finance.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Facilitate Agile Events: Lead daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and reviews to ensure effective team collaboration and communication.
• Coaching and Mentoring: Coach and mentor teams, stakeholders and Management  on Agile principles and practices within the SAFe framework, fostering self-management and cross-functionality to enhance team effectiveness and collaboration.
• Product Backlog Management: Collaborate with Product Owners to prioritize and manage the product backlog effectively, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Planning Interval (PI) Planning: Prepare and facilitate PI Planning sessions, ensuring alignment of team objectives with business goals and assisting in defining and communicating PI objectives.
• Dependency and Risk Management: Help teams identify dependencies and risks, and remove impediments that hinder progress, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Azure DevOps Utilization: Leverage Azure DevOps to enhance team collaboration, visualize progress, streamline workflows, and provide real-time insights into team performance.
• SAFe Alignment: Ensure alignment with SAFe practices across multiple teams and stakeholders, supporting the organization in achieving high performance.
• Quality Product Delivery: Support the team in delivering quality products while achieving high performance, driving accountability and ownership within the team.

Who you are:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., SAFe Scrum Master (SSM), SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE), Project Management Professional (PMP)) are a plus.
• Proven experience in executing agile transformations in large organizations. Ability to implement and scale agile practices at the enterprise level.
• Proficiency in Azure DevOps and its application in Agile project management.
• Excellent facilitation, coaching, and mentoring skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with teams, stakeholders and management.
• Ability to identify and resolve conflicts and impediments.
• Fluent in both German (C1) and English.