Agile Release Train Engineer- VP

About Citi:

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients’ best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services

Citi’s Functions Technology is responsible for delivering Technology solutions to Citi's Functions organizations.  Functions Technology mission is to optimize Citi's Technology environment by delivering world class applications, driving standardization of the production environment, reducing complexity, optimizing management of systems supporting global functions such as Compliance, Controls, Internal Audit and Risk, and introducing innovative technologies that provide new business capabilities, reduce the technology total cost of ownership, and create a competitive advantage for Citi. 

The Role

The Agile Release Train Engineer plays a meaningful role in delivering high-quality modern solutions as part of the Agile Release Train (ART). This role will be accountable for acting as a servant leader and Agile coach to the teams on the ART and as a change agent, evangelizing the tenets of Agile and Scrum across Functions and Finance Risk Technology. 

Responsibilities

• Act as a Change Agent with a passion for supporting Agile teams and Portfolios to transform their behaviors toward an agile mindset and environment. 

• Prepare for and facilitate Planning Increment (PI) Planning then Lead the successful execution of each PI to achieve its objectives and enabling outcomes to execute the ARTs product vision. 

• Facilitate SAFe processes and events for the ART enhancing team and ART performance and maturity  

• Facilitate program level agile ceremonies to include dependency mapping, release planning and scope alignment across Product teams 

• Coordinate major feature releases and ongoing value delivery to customers 

• Ensure risk and compliance goals are met through enablement of high code quality, robust backlogs, and reduction of technical debt  

• Enable the removal of or escalate impediments to the Scrum Teams or ART progress 

• Leverage performance data to drive outcomes and continuous improvement for the ART 

• Enable empirical product planning for a complex environment  

• Facilitate communication and partnership inside and outside the ART to include stakeholder engagement  

• Coach teams on the ART and others they interact with to adopt an agile mindset with focus on agile values and principles leading with transparency, inspection, and adaptation resulting in delivery of high value increments which meet the Definition of Done 

Qualifications

• 6-10 years working in an agile environment as a development team member, Scrum Master, RTE or Product Owner  

• 5+ years' experience in the Scrum Master or Agile Coach role of distributed Agile team, tech domain  

• Mindset consistent with Scrum core values: openness, courage, respect, focus and commitment

• Demonstrated understanding of lean agile values and principles including the 3-5-3 structure of scrum 

• Expert in facilitation, problem solving and influencing outcomes  

• Expert knowledge of best practices in value driven development (requirements management, prototyping, hypothesis driven development, usability testing). 

• Strong knowledge of technical engineering best practices including test driven development, continuous integration, DevOps

• Demonstrated knowledge of common practices to manage risk from risk identification through mitigation and monitoring 

• Expert knowledge of agile tool suites including Atlassian, Agility Health, MS Teams or similar agile management tooling   

• SAFe RTE, Scrum Master and Agile Certifications  

Preferences

• Experience with large-scale enterprise agile transformations with knowledge of multiple agile and scaling frameworks  

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience    

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In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.

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