Release Train Engineer (m/f/d)

A Snapshot of Your Day

As part of Grid Technology Product Management, we are creating digitally enabled solutions and products, such as hardware and software, for high voltage energy transition applications, including High Voltage Switchgears, Transformers, and Composite Insulators & Surge Arresters. In your new role as a Release Train Engineer, you will oversee team performance on a tactical level, facilitating optimal performance across multiple teams. Your responsibilities will include removing impediments and ensuring discipline and consistency in agile practices within our Agile Release Train (ART).

How You’ll Make an Impact

Take the lead in organizing and facilitating Program Increment Planning sessions, ensuring alignment among all teams and partners on critical goals and deliverables that drive organizational success.

• Supervise and guide ART activities to foster collaborative efforts towards shared objectives, proactively removing obstacles while providing expert coaching on agile practices and principles to enhance team performance.
• Strategically identify, track, and mitigate risks and dependencies across teams, ensuring the seamless delivery of high-quality features and capabilities that meet stakeholder expectations.
• Cultivate a culture of continuous improvement by expertly facilitating engaging retrospectives and implementing effective feedback mechanisms that drive innovation and operational excellence.
• Deliver comprehensive and regular updates on ART progress, including key metrics and performance indicators, to stakeholders and leadership, ensuring transparency and informed decision-making.
• Champion SAFe principles and agile methodologies, ensuring strict adherence to best practices and driving the continuous evolution of the ART to maximize value and impact within the organization.

What You Bring

Hold an educational background in the IT field, complemented by relevant professional experience, or possess a university degree. This position prioritizes skills and personal attributes over formal academic qualifications.

• Demonstrate proven experience as a Release (Train) Engineer or in a similar role, with a strong understanding of SAFe principles and practices.
• Possess relevant certifications, such as SAFe Release Train Engineer, which are highly desirable.
• Exhibit excellent communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills to foster collaboration across diverse teams.
• Utilize strong analytical skills to track Agile metrics and leverage data for driving improvements.
• Maintain proficiency in English, with excellent verbal and written communication skills, and show willingness to travel and work in an international environment.

About the Team

Our Grid Technology division enables a reliable, sustainable, and digital grid. The power grid is the backbone of the energy transition. The company offers a leading portfolio and solutions in HVDC transmission, grid stabilization and storage, high voltage switchgears and transformers, and digital grid technology.

Who is the company?

At the company, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Find out how you can make a difference at the company:

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. The company celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards/Benefits

In addition to an attractive remuneration package in line with the market, you can expect an attractive employer‑financed company pension scheme.

• We also offer the opportunity to become a company shareholder.
• We offer our employees the opportunity to work flexibly and remotely, and our inspiring offices provide space for collaboration and creativity.
• The professional and personal development of our employees is very important to us. We provide them with the opportunities to learn and develop in a self-determined way, various attractive programmes and learning materials are available for this purpose.
• In relation to the "compatibility of family and work", we have a wide range of offers, e.g. flexible working time models, childcare places at many locations, the possibility of trial part-time work or even a sabbatical.
• We value equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with disabilities.