Leads the Xcelerator Agile Release Train by coordinating stakeholders, facilitating PI planning, coaching teams and leaders on SAFe and Agile practices, managing risks and dependencies, tracking ART performance metrics, and driving retrospectives and continuous improvement. The role partners across product, development, leadership, and enterprise teams to ensure successful delivery of high-impact capabilities.
Standard Job Description
As the Xcelerator Release Train Engineer - Level 4 you will be responsible for guiding the Xcelerator Agile Release Train, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring seamless delivery of high-impact capabilities. Your responsibilities will include:
- Leading the Agile cadence, ensuring participation from team members and key stakeholders across the ART
- Working closely with product owners, developers, stakeholders, and leadership to ensure successful delivery of value across the enterprise
- Facilitating Program Increment (PI) planning readiness and execution
- Coaching leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters on SAFe, Agile, Lean, and Scrum practices
- Managing risks, dependencies, and impediments, escalating and tracking them to resolution
- Tracking and reporting ART progress, risks, and dependencies using PI objectives, burn‑down/up charts, and other metrics
- Lead retrospectives and drive actionable improvement initiatives
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of RTE, Product Owner or Scrum Master experience
- Experience working in JIRA
- Ability to Coach and Mentor others
- Strong facilitation, communication, and conflict‑resolution abilities
Desired Skills
- Certified in SAFe a plus
- Experience leading complex IT Systems Integration efforts desired
- Business Process Reengineering experience desired
- Experience managing across organizational boundaries
- Experience with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Systems, Manufacturing Engineering Systems (MES), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems
- Experience working with Siemens Xcelerator Platform a plus
- Experience working with other Siemens Manufacturing systems a plus
- Strong Project Management Skills
- Excellent communication skills and ability to communicate effectively to teams and individual contributors
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $104900.00 - $194700.00
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Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10), 401(k) match, Paid time off, Holidays, Parental Leave, EAP, Flexible Spending Accounts, Education Assistance, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability.
- Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year and are tied to a range of performance metrics.
- For (Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.
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