Senior Principal Release Train Engineer

Senior Principal Release Train Engineer

What we are looking for:

Keurig Dr Pepper is seeking a Senior Principal Release Train Engineer who serves as a Lean-Agile leader. The Senior Principal Release Train Engineer builds high performing teams, applies and facilitates team events, processes, and best practices, to help the organization achieve specific outcomes.

As a Senior Principal Release Train Engineer, you will…

• Drive effective and efficient implementation of the Scrum framework at a team level for one to two scrum teams, with members from two or more companies.
• Develop a collaborative and self-managing team through a compelling vision, active facilitation, and powerful coaching.
• Facilitate and improve value of various scrum events (e.g., daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning meetings, sprint review meetings, sprint retrospective meetings).
• Identify and manage impediments that prevent a team from producing valuable output.
• Protect the team from distractions and hold the team accountable for work.
• Measure and optimize flow, i.e., WIP limits.
• Support PI planning, and the alignment of PI Objectives.
• Act as a change agent (including helping the business adapt to agile principles).
• Adapt process guidelines to maximize productivity.
• Establish the team Kanban board.
• Ensure efficient communication between the Scrum Team, Product Owner/Manager, and other stakeholders.

Who you are:

• Expert knowledge of product life cycle, including software development methodologies (SAFe) design and implementation.
• Expert knowledge of Scrum, Lean, XP, Kanban, and other Agile development techniques.
• Deep knowledge of test automation methods and concepts.
• Expert knowledge of agile principles across project management, Scrum, product management, etc.
• Leading knowledge of the principles and methods to identify, analyze, specify, design, and manage functional and infrastructure requirements.
• Leading skills in release and deployment management.
• Expert skills in agile estimation and planning.
• Expert ability to make sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions.
• Expert ability to train, coach and mentor the team.
• Expert ability to build strong team dynamics and team spirit to sustain cooperative working relationships.
• Proven ability to continuously improve by learning new tools and techniques and finding new ways to accomplish work activities and objectives.
• Proven ability to connect and influence others to achieve team goals.
• Proven ability to innovate by experimenting, accepting constructive feedback, adapting, and evolving.
• Expert ability to vary styles of interaction to match the needs of a variety of business and technical audiences.
• Expert ability to resolve conflict by effectively dealing with disagreements and handling emotionally charged individuals.
• Expert ability to remove barriers and enable teams to complete their objectives.

Why join us?

Keurig Dr Pepper (NASDAQ: KDP) is a modern, leading coffee and beverage company with a bold vision built to deliver growth and opportunity. We operate with a differentiated business model and world-class brand portfolio, powered by a talented and engaged team that is anchored in our values. We seek diversity in our workforce and empower our team of ~28,000 employees to develop and grow. We care for our employees’ health, wellness, personal and financial well-being by offering robust benefits. We work with big, exciting beverage brands and the #1 single-serve coffee brewing system in North America at KDP, and we have fun doing it! Come be a part of a company where you can feel valued, inspired, and appreciated at work.