Senior Vice President, Release Train Engineer

Bring your ideas. Make history. 

At BNY, our culture empowers you to grow and succeed. As a leading global financial services company at the center of the world's financial system we touch nearly 20% of the world's investible assets. Every day around the globe, our 50,000+ employees bring the power of their perspective to the table to create solutions with our clients that benefit businesses, communities and people everywhere.

We continue to be a leader in the industry, awarded as a top home for innovators and for creating an inclusive workplace. Through our unique ideas and talents, together we help make money work for the world. This is what #LifeAtBNY is all about.

We're seeking a future team member for the role of Release Train Engineer to join our team.  This role can be based out of our Lake Mary, FL, or Pittsburgh, PA offices - Hybrid.

In this role, you'll make an impact in the following ways:

• The RTE facilitates process and execution and drive a culture of continuous improvement and integration by fostering community of practice.

• They lead and/or participate in lean-agile transformations, coach leadership, and other teams in agile mindsets and new processes. They act as a servant leader and coach for the Agile Release Train (ART) or product.

• They work with the Agile Program Management Office on program execution and operational excellence and understand and operate within Lean Budgets to ensure adherence to Guardrails

• Facilitates the development events, process and execution. They help ensure value delivery, and help drive a culture of continuous improvement.

• Coach leaders, teams and Scrum Masters in SAFe, agile mindsets and new processes.

• Manage and optimize the flow through the program

• Work with Product and Solution Management, Product Owners, and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment

• Facilitate the PI planning event. Summarize Team PI Objectives into Program PI Objectives and publish them for visibility and transparency

• Escalate and track impediments. Help manage risks and dependencies and report status

• Improve the flow of value through value streams by improving and assessing the practices associated with DevOps and Release on Demand in the Continuous Delivery Pipeline

• Facilitate System Demos Drive relentless improvement via Inspect and Adapt workshops; assess the agility level of the ART and help them improve Foster Communities of Practice and the use of engineering and Built-In Quality practices

To be successful in this role, we're seeking the following:

Expertise

• Expertise in playing the Release Train Engineer role for large initiatives, programs or Agile Release Trains

• Experience in managing programs in Fund Accounting is preferred

• Experience in JIRA, Confluence and Advanced Roadmap, Plans in JIRA

• Strong knowledge of Lean-Agile principles, practices, frameworks, and method

• Effective facilitation and teaching methods

• Coaching and mentoring approaches, including the distinction between the two

• Ability to drive decisions and resolve conflicts across multiple parties

• Experience successfully running agile projects of varying size and complexity

• Preferred to have Agile certifications including SAFe RTE, SPC, CSM or PSM

At BNY Mellon, our inclusive culture speaks for itself. Here's a few of our awards:

• America's Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2024
• World's Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2024
• Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Corporate Equality Index, 100% score, 2023-2024 · Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion, Disability: IN - 100% score, 2023-2024
• "Most Just Companies", Just Capital and CNBC, 2024
•  Dow Jones Sustainability Indices, Top performing company for Sustainability, 2024
• Bloomberg's Gender Equality Index (GEI), 2023

Our Benefits and Rewards:

BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life's journey. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, that can support you and your family through moments that matter.

The Release Train Engineer (RTE) is a servant leader and coach for the Agile Release Train (ART) or product. The RTE's major responsibilities are to facilitate the development events and processes and assist the teams in delivering value. RTEs communicate with stakeholders, escalate impediments, help manage risk, and drive relentless improvement. The Principal RTE facilitates process and execution and drive a culture of continuous improvement and integration by fostering community of practice. They lead and/or participate in lean-agile transformations, coach leadership, and other teams in agile mindsets and new processes. They work with the Agile Program Management Office on program execution and operational excellence and understand and operate within Lean Budgets to ensure adherence to Guardrails. Coach leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters in SAFe. Manage and optimize the flow through the program and facilitate PI Planning and readiness. Aggregate Team PI Objectives into Program PI Objectives. Work with the Agile Program Management Office on program execution and operational excellence. Understand and operate within Lean Budgets and ensure adherence to Guardrails. Escalate and track impediments. Ensure strategy and execution alignment. Help manage risks and dependencies and report status. Agile Program Management, Agile Tools and Methodologies, Change Management, Coaching, DevOps Practices, Facilitation, Lean Methodology, Lean User Experience, Mentoring, Risk Management, Teaching, Value Realization, Adaptability, Collaboration, Decision Making, Extended Network Thinking, Feedback Avocation, Intellectual Curiosity, Optimism Resilience, Servant Leadership, Social Intelligence, Strategic Communication, Systemic Thinking, Team Orientation. No Direct Reports. Relevant Competencies: Agile Leadership- Advanced / Agile Methodologies-Expert / Budgeting-Intermediate / Business Process Improvement-Intermediate /Cross Functional Team Leadership-Advanced / Enterprise Architecture-Beginner / Facilitation-Advanced / Kanban-Advanced / Lean-Advanced / Program Management-Intermediate / Project Management-Intermediate / Project Planning-Intermediate / Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)-Expert / Scrum-Advanced /Servant Leadership-Advanced / Vendor Management-Intermediate / Written and Oral Comms-Advanced Modified based upon local regulations/requirements. Bachelor's degree in business or technical-related discipline, or equivalent work experience required; advanced degree preferred10-12 years of experience in providing consulting advice to senior IT and business management required; experience in the securities or financial services industry is a plus. Strong knowledge of Lean-Agile principles, practices, frameworks, and methods. Understands company organizational model, company structure, and Agile journey history. Effective facilitation and teaching methods. Coaching and mentoring approaches, including the distinction between the two. Ability to drive decisions and resolve conflicts across multiple parties. Strong problem-solving skills. Experience successfully running agile projects of varying size and complexity BNY Mellon is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Minorities/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans. Our ambition is to build the best global team-one that is representative and inclusive of the diverse talent, clients and communities we work with and serve-and to empower our team to do their best work. We support wellbeing and a balanced life, and offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies and employee forums.

BNY Mellon is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Minorities/Females/Individuals With Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

Our ambition is to build the best global team - one that is representative and inclusive of the diverse talent, clients and communities we work with and serve - and to empower our team to do their best work. We support wellbeing and a balanced life, and offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies and employee forums.