Help us build our future. Get ready for a job that encourages you to think strategically yet stay connected with your teams. Do you have scrum and project management experience? If so, prepare to innovate, create, and inspire. The Release Train Engineering Senior Advisor Responsible for ensuring the smooth operation of ART events and practices and assist Agile Teams in their success and the a ggregates team Program Increment (PI) objectives into Program PI objectives. Participates in PI Planning readiness; preparation of Vision and backlogs via Pre- and Post-planning. Establishes PI Planning readiness (when no value stream level exists) and facilitates PI Planning. Manages and optimizes the flow of value through the program using various tools.

Responsibilities:

• Oversees delivery of work aligned to all scrum teams within the ART, ensuring work is delivered per the plan.


• Provide more detailed oversight of larger projects within the ART, more akin to traditional project management.


• Responsible for managing complex Intake requests, ensuring they are estimated in a timely manner.

• Tracks estimate approvals, understands delivery timeline goals, and works with the product team to ensure approved work is aligned to the appropriate PI.


• Ensures scope changes result in re-estimation and approval of additional funds when appropriate


• Lead PI Planning preparedness with scrum teams


• Leads weekly Scrum of Scrums


• Facilitates ART events and practices and provides coaching to the ART during PI execution


• Communicates with stakeholders, facilitates problem-solving, dependency management, and risk management


• Supports the team as needed to help them meet their commitments


• Representing OneView in program meetings, reporting out on status as needed


• Creates space for problem-solving and facilitating decision-making Identifying opportunities for Agile Teams, leaders, and stakeholders to collaborate Creating an environment where everyone on the ART can share challenges openly.

• Supports the product for multiple LOB's


• Program role for managing multiple scrum teams to ensure coordination of tasks, competing priorities, and dependencies


• They are integral to the ART leadership, collaborating with Product Management, the System Architect, and Business Owners to achieve effective outcomes on the ART. Beyond the ART, RTEs


• Understand agile metrics used to measure team maturity, and aid leaders in understanding data cleanliness rules for accurate reporting. Proactively monitor data cleanliness in internal tools such as Jira.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in agile software development


• 2+ years managing staff or providing work direction, coaching and mentoring


• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to present and communicate to executive level


• Experience in budget management for projects and/or departments


• Skilled in understanding how to leverage data to drive meaningful results, demonstrated analytical skills.


• Skilled in building relationships across organization


• Advanced proficiency in MS Office applications, particularly Word, Outlook, Excel, PPT and Jira, confluence and SharePoint are critical; demonstrated ability to produce crisp, professional documents imperative


• High School Diploma or equivalent; bachelor's degree preferred.

If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.

About The Cigna Group

Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group, we're dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services, we are committed to enhancing the lives of our clients, customers and patients. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.

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