Release Train Engineer in West Sussex, United Kingdom

Description

You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.

With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

Join Team Amex and let’s lead the way together.

Facilitate and Leads ART Execution

• Drives train/release level processes demonstrating servant leadership coupled with domain knowledge and technical savvy.

• Facilitates Program Increment (PI) planning meetings with leadership, product management, delivery teams, and Business Partners on the ART(s).

• Support train level meetings in partnership with product management and system architect(s) to ensure the preparation, readiness and prioritization of features for future PI planning sessions.

• Partners with Product Managers, Product Owners, and Business Partners to help assure strategy, vision, and road map alignment and execution.

• Ensure value is achieved by the train on behalf of end users.

• Assist with train prioritization.

• Collaborates with other Release Train Engineers (RTE) to coordinate cross-train dependencies and other organizations and teams.

• Create data-driven insights into the delivery and execution of the ART using relevant portfolio, Release Train, and team level metrics.

• Raises impediments, handles risks, dependencies, and resourcing needs.

• Support and encourage innovation through continuous exploration.

• Encourages continuous improvement, facilitating Inspect & Adapt and other retrospective sessions to support the train to continuously reflect on their past experiences, learn from them and take action to improve.

• Aggregates and drives team PI objectives into train/release objectives to ensure successful delivery.

• Provide visibility into gaps, issues, risks, and opportunities across Agile teams.Track and measure feature and capability execution.

Technical Skills

• Understand the team’s technical platforms and applications.

• Facilitate solution technical alignment discussions.

How will you make an impact in this role?

• Leading the state of the art new VCC iRefresh train

• Focus on leading the enterprise wide initiative for multi markets to adhere to Financial Cries Transformation

• Coaching teams and removing roadblocks for 5 core application teams as well as 20 dependent teams across the enterprise

• Keeping all stakeholder including Exec leaders up to date on program progress

• Guiding the teams through change

• Creating and augmenting a how to guide of best practices to implement a VCC initiative

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience as RTE

• Agile knowledge

Preferred Qualifications

• Agile Certifications

• Significant experience of Agile and RTE

Qualifications

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

• Competitive base salaries

• Bonus incentives

• Support for financial-well-being and retirement

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)

• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need

• Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)

• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)

• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program

• Career development and training opportunities

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.

Job: Technology

Primary Location: United Kingdom-West Sussex-Burgess Hill

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 24013423