Senior Program Manager — Washington DC-Baltimore Area

Job Title: Senior Program Manager (Release Train Engineer)

Location: Washington, DC/ Remote/ Quarterly Travel to DE/PA/DC for PI Planning Events

Duration: 12+months

Must have:

SAFe Release Train Engineer 6.0 certification

Scaled Agile Practice Consultant 6.0 Certification

Agility Insights Facilitator Certification

Facilitate PI Planning

Help the ART Prepare for PI Planning (Logistics, ART backlog Readiness, WSJF, etc)

Facilitate the 2-day in-person PI planning event

Coach alignment to Enterprise Strategy and cascaded OKRs

Support PI Execution

Track progress; ART Predictability Measure; Velocity; Cycle Time, and other Flow metrics

Facilitate ART synchronization events (Coach Sync, ART, Sync, Architect Sync, PO Sync, I&A, IP Iteration, System Demo)

Support ART backlog refinement

Promote DevOps and continuous delivery

Assist Business Owners in understanding their role and assigning business value

Coordinate planning efforts with other ARTs

Coach the ART

Coach with powerful questions

Coach Scrum Masters/Team Coaches in ART and Team Events and practices

Coach ART roles including system architects, product management, business owners, etc.

Optimize Flow

Establish pull systems to optimize the flow of value

Establish ART flow measures

Improve the flow of value

Facilitate value stream mapping

Reduce or eliminate cross-team dependencies

Improve Relentlessly

Drive ART relentless improvement plan and roadmap through Agility Insights TeamHealth Assessments and Inspect & Adapt events

Promote built-in quality practices in Coach, PO syncs and CoPs

Collaborate with Value Management Office and Lean-Agile transformation team

Act as a Servant Leader

Listen to and support teams in problem identification and decision-making

Create an environment of mutual influence

Understand and empathize with others

Encourage and support the personal development of each individual and the development of teams

Think beyond day-to-day activities and apply systems thinking Support the teams’ commitments

Be open and appreciate openness in others

Comfortably be the face of the ART and excel at public speaking in front of large audiences