(Release Train Engineer – Core Systems) at Safaricom Kenya

Key Role Responsibilities

Exhibits Servant leadership:

•     Listen and support teams in problem identification and decision-making
•     Create an environment of mutual influence
•     Understand and empathize with others
•     Encourage and support the personal development of each individual and the development of teams
•     Coach people with powerful questions rather than use authority
•     Think beyond day-to-day activities; apply systems thinking
•     Support the teams’ commitments
•     Be open and appreciate openness in others
•     Encourage collaboration between teams, Product Management and System Architects
•     Be obsessively customer focussed

Help align Strategy with execution:

•     Delivery of the Strategic Product RoadMap
•     Collaborate with Lean Portfolio Management, Product Management and System Architects to help ensure we are working towards the right outcomes
•     Understand and operate within Lean Budgets and ensure adherence to Guardrails

Improve Flow:

•     Manage and optimize the flow of value through the ART through ongoing evaluation of practices associated with DevSecOps and Release on Demand in the Continuous Delivery Pipeline
•     Provide input on resourcing to address critical bottlenecks
•     Ensure RISKs are managed, to remove impediments and ensuring mitigations are implemented.

Prepare and Facilitate PI Planning:

•     Facilitate PI Planning readiness by fostering the Continuous Exploration process
•     Assist with economic decision-making by facilitating feature and capability estimation by teams and the roll-up to Epics, where necessary
•     Prepare for and facilitate PI Planning event
•     Summarize Team PI Objectives into Program PI Objectives
•     Resource management and recruitment associated with ART including 3rd party resources

Guide Program Execution:

•     Track the delivery of features
•     Help manage risks and dependencies
•     Escalate and track impediments
•     Facilitate periodic synchronization events, including the ART sync, Systems Demos and Inspect and Adapt workshops
•     Ensure effective vendor management
•     Provide regular reporting and analysis to drive effective decision making and continuous improvement

Encourage Innovation:

•     Help drive the Lean User Experience (UX) innovation cycle
•     Drive regular innovation and exploration cycles to improve ROI and customer satisfaction in line with the SAFe framework

Drive Relentless Improvement:

•     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
•     Work with the Value Management Office on program execution and operational excellence

Additional accountabilities:

•     Supplier Management and negotiation on scope and quality
•     ART and team design to support flow and manage ART performance
•     Resource Management and Coaching
•     ART Budget reporting and planning

Qualifications

Apply if you have:

Essential

•     Degree Qualification – Preferably STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)
•     Relevant certified Scrum Master qualification, for example, SAFe Scrum Master or equivalent
•     Agile Experience including international suppliers or markets – minimum 5 years
•     Contagious passion for, and commitment to, driving mobile money growth and innovation
•     Communication and relationship management experience
•     Excellent problem analysis and resolution skills to support work in reactive and proactive environments

Desirable

•     SAFe certified Release Train Engineer
•     ITIL Service Management qualification or experience
•     Agile Transformation and Hybrid/Waterfall supplier experience
•     Demonstrable working knowledge and competence using JIRA and Confluence
•     Mobile Payment or Financial Payment Service Experience
•     ICA certificate in Anti-Money Laundering

What you can expect from us:

•     We believe in a fair and robust interview process
•     We have a robust flexible total reward scheme
•     Dedicated support and mentoring/coaching
•     Opportunity to develop and progress – plus a solid dedication to work-life integration. It all means you’ll have everything you need to advance your career and achieve your full potential.

Note to Applicants

As part of our recruitment process we will request the below documentation which will be required as soft copies at a later stage of the process.

•     An updated CV with a confirmation of three referees- 2 must be professional and must have supervised you at some point, the other referee can be a colleague in the same professional         field. If the referees are within the same organization that you are working with, you will need to confirm to us that it’s okay to contact them in writing (via email). This also includes all     references within the Human Resources department.
•     Scanned copy of certificate of good conduct from the CID (Less than 1 year old) – Applicable to Kenyans Only
•     Scanned copy of certificate from Credit Reference Bureau (CRB) – Applicable to Kenyans Only
•     Scanned copy of University Certificate
•     Scanned copy of your National ID / Passport-Legal Form of Identification