Release Train Engineer

Caterpillar•Peoria, IL

About The Position

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc. When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it. Cat Digital is the digital and technology arm of Caterpillar Inc., leveraging the latest technologies to build industry leading digital solutions for our customers and dealers. With over 1.5 million connected assets worldwide, our teams use data, technology, advanced analytics, telematics, and AI capabilities to help our customers build a better, more sustainable world. Job Summary: Providing expertise, leadership, mentorship, coaching, consulting, training, and/or facilitation in support of Business Agility across the enterprise. Designing new courses to fill gaps and serve the business in Agile growth. Driving organizational Agile transformations and elevating Agile maturity through working with senior leadership and organization events.

Requirements

Business Performance Management : Knowledge of technologies, techniques and practices for the use of business intelligence; ability to monitor and adjust business processes (internal and cross-organizational) in near real-time.
Level Extensive Experience: Compares pros and cons of specific metrics, methodologies and tools. Uses software to manage, scale, and deploy BPM across multiple applications or business units. Demonstrates knowledge of BPM in a variety of settings. Explains the relationship between financial, performance and operational data used in BPM. Describes operational challenges of BPM data collection and integration. Aligns data governance and BPM strategies and manages all forms of BPM information.
Business Process Design: Knowledge of business process design; ability to develop appropriate techniques to re-examine key processes and focus on optimizing organizational performance.
Level Extensive Experience: Participates in the design and implementation of a supporting organizational structure. Redesigns or enhances business processes to meet regulatory requirements. Trains others to identify and implement required infrastructure to support specific processes. Leads a variety of types of business process design initiatives. Assesses potential implications of re-engineering for multiple functions or departments. Demonstrates mastery of re-engineering concepts, methods, and tools.
Growth and Agility: Knowledge of the necessity of businesses and individuals to experiment, learn continuously, and achieve value for the organization; ability to embrace challenges, show resilience, and proactively seek improvement and innovation to improve an organization's competitive advantage.
Level Extensive Experience: Reviews and anticipates the impact of change in markets, politics and culture on the organization and its stakeholders. Proposes new ideas, approaches, and solutions in response to changing demands or the environment. Fosters a team culture of learning and experimentation where failure is seen as a learning opportunity. Coaches others to continuously seek process improvements and more customer-centric approaches. Makes progress in an atmosphere of ambiguity and uncertainty. Helps others adapt to changing environments and accept new situations.
Coaching Others: Knowledge of coaching and mentoring concepts and methods; ability to encourage, motivate, and guide individuals in learning and improving effectiveness.
Level Extensive Experience: Coaches one or several individuals or teams on a specific competency or subject area. Contributes to the establishment of good coaching practices. Monitors individual or team progress through feedback sessions. Discusses alternative techniques for diagnosing and coaching individuals and teams. Successfully coaches both superstars and problem performers. Analyzes patterns and identifies key areas for improvement of processes or results.
Influencing: Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to impact decisions within and outside own organization.
Level Extensive Experience: Achieves influence and impact even when holding a position contrary to the majority. Discards examples of persuasive arguments lacking substance or impact. Leads and presents collaborative assessments that persuasively influence decision makers. Advises on techniques to build rapport and commitment to common purpose. Determines and leverages the decision-making style of the individual or group being influenced. Delivers well-received presentations of cost, benefits, risks, and other considerations.
Partnering for Clients' Success: Knowledge of and insight into clients' key objectives and ability to work and think alongside clients to achieve clients' current and future aspirations and successes.
Level Extensive Experience: Customizes solutions to meet clients' dynamic current and future needs using company's products, services and capabilities efficiently and effectively. Collaborates with internal and external experts and consultants to develop solutions that can add significant value to clients' success. Partners with clients to respond to new business conditions or challenges using one's own expertise and capabilities with enthusiasm. Advises others on best practices to solve clients' problems and improve the effectiveness of outcomes. Helps clients to reconstruct their perceptions about their current business to explore alternative solutions and increase success. Recommends improvements to clients' current business processes, such as marketing channels, business risks, resources and costs.
Managing Change: Knowledge of the necessity to adapt self and team to evolving business needs; ability to develop and implement new ideas and initiatives that improve the organization's performance in light of new requirements.
Level Working Knowledge: Encourages exploration of non-traditional ideas by team members. Employs sound methods of planning, introducing, and following through on change. Reinforces outcomes of change programs to increase the likelihood that they will take hold. Articulates the rationale for, and positive and negative consequences of change so as to help others adapt. Carries out difficult interpersonal responsibilities professionally and effectively.
Training and Development: Knowledge of employee training and development methodologies; ability to ensure that a target population has the knowledge and skills required to meet both tactical and strategic objectives.
Level Working Knowledge: Follows appropriate processes used in assessing the learning needs of a target population. Implements training processes for discovering the learning needs of employees. Explains the methods used in the evaluation of learning outcomes. Provides guidance and support to ensure that participants using self-study methods meet their learning goals. Develops live and media-based instructional programs using proper training methods.

Nice To Haves

Experience as a Program Manager while working with various business units prioritizing the work and the ability to hand off the work to others
Organizational skills are a must
Experience within SAFe Agile environments

Responsibilities

Teaching the Agile Mindset, Agile Frameworks, and Leadership, contributing to the development and continuous improvement of training materials and practices
Working with teams, framework role members, and/or leaders on an individual basis to help them be successful in an Agile organization, using tools and frameworks knowledge to promote best practices.
Use professional coaching skills to help organization and leaders resolve issues, create strategy, set objectives aimed at creating value.
Facilitating organizational workshops, strategic planning, scaled events.
Drive and contribute to Agile community of practice events and the overall growth of Business Agility within the company.
Have a basis of lean thinking principles and wide knowledge of the Agile mindset and Frameworks, and be able to apply them to business situations, as well as operate within them to model "best practice" and "emergent" behaviors