Release Train Engineer, Midrand

Our client in Telecoms industry seeks a Release Train Engineer for a contract role.

Key accountabilities and decision ownership:

· Manage program planning of engineering delivery

· Monitor and facilitate programs

· Manage the deployment of all releases into production and define / assess release readiness according to business requirements

· Coordinate and communicate the release pipeline to deliver frequent releases across business outcomes; manage external dependencies, ensuring alignment across key partners and vendors

· Track and report on release progress and manage risks

· Manage sourcing relationships

· Continuously improve release processes, implementing best practices consistent with agile methodologies

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

· Release train / pipeline planning, coordination, facilitation, and management

· Automated release and configuration management

· Program Increment (PI) Planning

· Production-readiness criteria definition and assessment of modules and supporting systems

· Systems thinking

· Agile software development environment and methods

· Continuous integration and continuous delivery methodologies and tools

· DevOps culture, processes, and tools

· Vendor selection and RFP / RFI management

· Contract definition and negotiation

· Vendor performance, contract, and relationship management

· Expertise with project planning tools e.g. Microsoft Project and Project Server, JIRA

· Multi-sourcing approaches

· Strong business acumen, including with an in-depth understanding of the contribution of the domain or business outcome to the wider digital business strategy and roadmap

· Excellent collaboration skills, with the ability to work in a fast-paced team environment, influencing, empowering, and coaching teams to agile teams to self-organize, self-manage and self-improve

· Ability to contextualise the wider business and financial goals to the domain and make decisions, prioritization, and recommendations accordingly

· Strong Programme/ Project Manager background is advantageous.