Title:  Agile Release Train Engineer

Purpose

To provide leadership skills to plan, organize, and coordinate assigned projects. Establishing and maintaining cooperation between other work groups and the project. While working in a matrix organization, assuring that project work will be completed on schedule and within approved budget. Resolving resource support issues for assigned project. Integrating contract and District work groups on a project. Resolving technical issues.

Nature and Scope

Serves as a lead position with responsibility, appropriate authority and accountability to accomplish a given scope of work which extends across department lines, within the authorized budget and schedule. The Project Manager I, by controlling project activities through a matrix organization, is responsible for all work activities performed on the project. The Project Manager I requires moderate supervisory direction.

This role typically oversees or leads smaller projects, or supports large complex projects with budgets of up to $1,000,000. 

Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop Project Plans (PP) which define the scope, budget, schedule, and other resources of assigned projects.
• Support supervisor in obtaining Executive Management approvals of projects and assignments.
• Coordinate project resources as necessary to complete project tasks as long as total project costs do not exceed those within the approved Project Plan.
• Review and approve all requests for contract services or materials related to assigned projects.
• Ensure the proper and efficient use of District resources.
• Develop and maintain clear and concise communications and working relationships with other departments and projects that interface with the project.
• Provide input to project team members performance evaluations as a part of the annual SMUD performance evaluation process.
• Review and approve all project related contract and material invoices.
• Analyze cost/schedule trends and take appropriate corrective action when they are contrary to the Project Plan.
• Provide management with periodic updates on the status of assigned projects.
• Interface with external agency staff and contractor staff to resolve project conflicts.
• Perform related duties as required.

Required Education

• A Bachelor’s of art or science degree or related discipline from accredited college or university or equivalent experience. If no degree, seven or more (7+) years of relevant experience is required.

Required Experience Qualifications

• Three or more (3+) years of progressively responsible relevant project management work experience in one or more of the following technical areas: financial/economic analysis, marketing and customer research, technical and engineering analysis, or planning and business development to include at least one year in a responsible project leadership role.

Knowledge Of

Project management principles and practices; SMUD operations; SMUD policies, procedures, applicable MOUs, and other special agreements; federal, state, and local laws, codes, and regulations pertinent to area of assignment; cost control, scheduling, and budgeting principles and practices; performance measurement techniques; proposal preparation techniques; contractual mechanisms and common terms and conditions; accounting fundamentals; management reporting; management control system fundamentals; total quality management philosophies, tools and techniques; practices for reviewing work assignments; safety policies, practices, and procedures; standard operating procedures for modern office equipment including a computer and applicable software; English grammar, punctuation and vocabulary standards.

Skills To

Manage, plan, and coordinate diverse functions within assigned projects; provide effective reporting to executive management including written and oral communications, presentations, and reports; evaluate and resolve complex technical or management issues within a project; develop funding for projects; maintain adherence to budget and schedule using a matrix organization; negotiate with internal management personnel; identifying multiple solutions and objectively assess advantages and disadvantages of each; provide coaching, motivation, and skills development to assigned staff; set project goals/objectives and define activities that must be performed to accomplish them; utilize a personal computer and/or computer terminal, systems and software relevant to the job; communicate effectively orally and in writing internally/externally; establish and maintain effective working relationships internally/externally.

Desirable Qualifications

• One or more (1+) years of experience facilitating and negotiating priorities and dependencies across multiple agile teams.
• One or more (1+) years of experience maintaining constant awareness of projects and clients; keeping product owners focused on short- and long-term milestones.
• One or more (1+) years of experience measuring and communicating the velocity of each agile team and providing analytical reports and presentations.
• Strong knowledge of Atlassian JIRA, Align and Confluence.
• One or more (1+) years of experience establishing new ART/Teams structure templates, queries, dashboards etc. within Atlassian JIRA, Align and Confluence.
• SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE) or other Scaled Agile certifications.

Physical Requirements