Siemens founded the new business unit Siemens Advanta (formerly known as Siemens IoT Services) on April 1, 2019 with its headquarter in Munich, Germany. It has been crafted to unlock the digital future of its clients by offering end-to-end support on their outstanding digitalization journey. Siemens Advanta is a strategic advisor and a trusted implementation partner in digital transformation and industrial IoT with a global network of more than 8000 employees in 10 countries and 21 offices. Highly skilled and experienced specialists offer services which range from consulting to craft & prototyping to solution & implementation and operation – everything out of one hand.

Release Train Engineer in Scaled Agile Environment

Looking for a chance to create a positive impact and shape the culture of Siemens? Are you interested in taking an active part of the Agile Transformation? Or just being passionate to make Siemens a better place to work? In SI IT we really made a progress in this journey and opened our doors to support the necessary mindset change across the company. You might have heard about our extensive training offerings or the Siemens Agile Conferences we organized in the past two years.

We are looking for passionate colleagues who are experienced in coordinating multiple teams in a scaled Agile environment and would be interested in our Release Train Engineer position. Your journey will start in our configure, price and quote (CPQ) environment for Smart Infrastructure Electrification and Automation products. You will be coordinating the ART level ceremonies in a scaled context. Coaching Product Management and Product Owners as well as multiple Agile teams is daily business. If you are a responsible, careful organizer and facilitator of events with up to 100 people, synchronizing the teams and prepare for the next Planning Interval, we are looking for you!

Join our like-minded team and see what it takes to be a change agent in an Agile organization!

As a Release Train Engineer your challenges will be:

•               Guide, coach and motivate the assigned Agile teams on your Agile Release Train, spread across the globe

•               Mainly work remotely with your team(s) with occasional travel opportunities

•               Focus on the needs of the Scrum Masters and Product Owners / Product Management and enable them to provide value with the goal of achieving results in line with the organization’s values, principles, and business objectives

•               Act as a change agent in the teams and the surrounding organization to proactively help changing culture and mindset

•               Perform the role of a SAFe® Release Train Engineer by organizing and facilitating the ART-level sync events, engaging the relevant stakeholders.

•               Facilitate collaboration across multiple teams and with the surrounding organization (Product Management, Business Owners and other stakeholders), including Feature slicing, prioritization and Story refinement

•               Coach the teams in organizing and facilitating the Scrum ceremonies and contributing to the ART Level sync events (PI Planning)

•               Coach the teams applying Lean, Agile, SAFe principles and practices, support the team as a servant leader to grow and to get better - lead by example.

•               Remove impediments that are beyond the teams influence

•               Protect the teams from outside interference

•               Ensure that Scrum and other relevant methods are understood and executed properly

•               Ensure governance, e.g. effort tracking within Sprints using Jira, documentation within Wiki (Confluence)

•               Guide the Agile Release Train (ART) to develop metrics and estimates, and periodically evaluate the process to become better in making predictions and reducing risks.

•               Participate in Communities of Practices (CoP) for Scrum Masters to share experience within the organization.

•               To make a difference you must have:

•               Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology or business information technology

•               4+ years of experience as a Scrum Master

•               1+ year of experience in a scaled agile environment and leading multiple teams

•               Experience with the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®)

•               Extensive knowledge of agile principles and methods

•               Strong collaboration and team development skills

•               Strong communication, facilitation, coaching and mentoring skills

•               Strong organizational capabilities

•               Experience in working with virtual, globally distributed, multicultural teams remotely

•               Written and spoken English on a proficient level is a must, additional language like German is a plus.

This role is based in Bangalore. You’ll also get to visit other locations in India and beyond, so you’ll need to go where this journey takes you. In return, you’ll get the chance to work with teams impacting entire cities, countries – and the shape of things to come.