Release Train Engineer - REMOTE

Cno Services • Carmel, IN

251d • $140,600 - $211,000 • Remote

About The Position

CNO Financial Group's IT Team is hiring a Release Train Engineer to serve as a recognized servant leader and subject matter expert of Agile methodologies and Program Management across the CNO enterprise. This role will be primarily responsible and accountable for leading a highly complex Agile Release Train (ART), which is a Team of Agile Teams working towards a common business objective. This role will be responsible for planning the work of teams, as well as uncovering and resolving cross-functional team dependency issues. Come join our growing IT department! In 2023, CNO was nominated for an “Exceptional Employer Award” from TechPoint, an Indiana tech advocacy non-profit. CNO IT, through progressive leadership, offers career advancement opportunities, consistently provides employee recognition, and maintains a fun and exciting culture. The CNO IT vision is to achieve TechHappiness for both our business partners and IT associates.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in IT or a related field of study.
• Scrum Master Certification (CSM, PSM, ACP) and other Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certifications (SAFe PO/PM, SAFe Advanced Scrum Master, SAFe Program Consultant (SPC)) are required.
• 10 years of experience leading/coaching/mentoring in Agile principles and frameworks.
• Proven experience leading Scrum/Agile teams.
• Candidate location in Central or Eastern US time zone is required.

Nice To Haves

• Masters degree in IT or a related field of study.
• Coaching certificate highly preferred.
• Prior industry experience is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing, managing, and optimizing the flow of value through a highly complex ART using various tools, such as the Program and Solution Kanbans and other information radiators.
• Providing significant input into the overall objectives that the ART is expected to deliver on and successfully executing on the delivery.
• Coaching leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters in several Lean-Agile practices, principles, and methodologies.
• Establishing, tracking, and reporting on metrics for the ART, planning the work of teams, and establishing the annual calendars for Iterations and Program Increments (PIs), which are fixed development timelines of approximately 10 weeks.
• Facilitating PI Planning readiness by fostering Continuous Exploration, synthesizing Vision, Roadmap, and Backlogs, and conducting Pre- and Post-PI Planning meetings.
• Driving and leading economic decision-making by facilitating feature and capability estimation by teams and the roll-up to Epics, where necessary.
• Mitigating issues, risks, and dependencies at multiple levels.
• Serving as an escalation resource for ART impediments and providing significant input on resourcing to address critical bottlenecks.
• Collaborating with other major IT subfunctions (i.e Application Development, IT Strategy, and Operations) as well as Product Management, Product Owners, and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Short-term & long-term disability insurance
• Paid time off and corporate holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Company-paid life insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree