Release Train Engineer

Iridium is an award-winning and innovative satellite communications company with bragging rights to the only network that offers voice and data connectivity anywhere in the world. For over 20 years, Iridium's unique network and services have supported critical communications needs for individuals, businesses, and the evolving Internet of Things.

At Iridium, we understand the importance of staying connected and the limitations of traditional communications networks. People across the globe, including first responders, humanitarians, global militaries, scientific researchers, and lone workers, as well as ships, aircraft and remote operations all rely on Iridium to stay connected. We take our responsibility for providing these essential communications very seriously and pride ourselves on offering a reliable lifeline when needed. Likewise, Iridium is committed to providing an exciting and innovative workplace, where employees are challenged to think outside the box and collaborate on new, bold ideas and solutions. Our talented teams are passionate about their work and the impact our company makes around the world. Iridium fosters an empowering and inclusive culture that allows employees to genuinely be their best selves. We are looking for others who want to join this truly unique company that celebrates our employees and provides the opportunity to truly make a difference in the world.

What We're Looking For:

If you enjoy leading and guiding teams following an Agile mindset, then you will be excited about the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Release Train Engineer opening with Iridium. As a Release Train Engineer, you will facilitate Agile Release Train events and processes, and support teams in delivering value. As a Release Train Engineer you will communicate with stakeholders, escalate impediments, help manage risk, and drive relentless improvement. You will be responsible for supporting the program, delivering high-quality work throughout the program lifecycle, including analyzing program delivery metrics and sharing this knowledge across Iridium's multiple organizations.

What You'll Do:

Coach teams on Agile values, principles, and SAFe best practices
• Facilitate program meetings and planning sessions
• Partner with program/product owners and project stakeholders to clearly specify future program iteration goals
• Work with the product leadership and development teams on requirements decomposition, backlog refinement, and work effort estimation
• Partner with product owners to set delivery priorities that guide the development team to deliver the right product at the right time
• Promote program transparency by creating and communicating Agile Release Train metrics to stakeholders
• Support a learning culture by facilitating iteration reviews and retrospectives
• Recommend process improvements, through investigation and analysis, that can resolve program or team challenges
• Advocate for the delivery team's needs

What You'll Need to Succeed:

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey products, deliverables, analyses, and/or issues clearly and confidently, and recognize and adapt to different communication techniques
• Can easily build meaningful relationships with others, including senior leadership outside of your own department, and is comfortable providing constructive feedback to your team members and management
• Be able to analyze a situation or problem, generate effective solutions, and see those solutions through to completion
• Capable of prioritizing your own tasks while making sure deadlines are met
• Recognize and understand team dynamics and how to coach others
• Be proactive in providing team performance feedback and be enthusiastic in sharing your knowledge with others
• Be curious. Ability to diagnose and analyze business systems and workflow with the goal of improving future outcomes

Things You Must Bring to the Table:

• Bachelor's degree (in Computer Science, Management Information, or related field) or equivalent
• 10+ years of relevant experience in the software product development or telecommunications industry
• SAFe Release Train Engineer certification
• In-depth knowledge and experience with the Essential Scaled Agile Framework ( SAFe)
• Experience with the Atlassian tool suite (Jira and Confluence) to support leadership decision-making

Things That Would be Great if You Brought to the Table:

• Prior experience supporting geographically dispersed development teams
• Leading and facilitating Program Increment Planning
• Agile Coaching Certification

We'll also need you to:

• Be able to travel up to 25%

Work Environment:

The position is largely sedentary with the majority of the position sitting in a chair and working with a computer. The role uses basic office equipment including a phone, video, computer, keyboard, mouse and printer. For meetings in person, this position will need to be able stand, walk within the office and climb stairs on occasion.

Iridium is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or status as a protected veteran. EOE of Minorities/Females/Vets/Disability and other protected categories.