Description

Essential:

• 5+ years in program/project delivery or Agile delivery leadership, with at least 2+ years as a Release Train Engineer or in an equivalent ART-facilitation role in a SAFe environment.
• SAFe RTE certification (or SAFe SPC/Agilist) and demonstrated, hands-on experience facilitating PI Planning and the full set of ART events.
• Project Management (PMI) certified desirable
• Proven ability to manage cross-team dependencies, program risk, and impediments across multiple Agile teams.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with a track record of maintaining accurate, timely two-way reporting between delivery teams and a central program/governance function (e.g., a LACE or PMO).
• Experience with Agile program management tooling (e.g., Azure DevOps, Jira/Jira Align, or equivalent) for tracking flow, metrics, and reporting.
• Servant-leadership and coaching ability, with experience explaining and embedding Lean-Agile practices across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Extremely strong communication skills, with a proven record of delivering high-impact presentations at the executive level.
• Role model in organizing project management and operational activities, with a demonstrated ability to create best-practice frameworks that improve efficiency.

Desirable:

• Experience operating within or alongside a Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) at enterprise scale.
• Background in IT program management and portfolio-level reporting.
• Familiarity with the  international organization delivery environment or comparable large, distributed enterprises.
• Experience supporting Agile budgeting, capacity planning, and resource management.

Key Skills:
 

• Proven SAFe knowledge: SAFe RTE certification (or SAFe SPC/Agilist) with demonstrated, hands-on experience facilitating PI Planning and the full set of ART events.
• Strong project management practices: a track record of standardizing project management practices, creating reusable project plan templates, and establishing best-practice frameworks that improve operational efficiency across teams.
• Extremely good communicator: outstanding communication skills with a proven record of delivering high-impact presentations at the executive level

Key Skills

Education

Any Graduate