Release Train Engineer

Your Opportunity

Schwab remains committed to providing increased visibility to career growth opportunities and job requirements. This posting announcement is part of increased transparency and while all qualified applicants will be reviewed and considered, this organization has a preferred candidate identified for this role.

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.

We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location.

The Release Train Engineer (RTE) is a servant leader who is accountable for the flow of value delivery through the program while ensuring alignment with company strategy, commitments, and goals. This role is responsible for facilitating program-level (a.k.a. Agile Release Train) events, ensuring resolution of impediments/issues/risks, and fostering program-level continuous improvement activities. The RTE is a critical link between multiple agile teams and the Portfolio-level; facilitating collaborative meetings by opening the flow of information to ensure all teams involved in the ART are focused on successful delivery and progress transparency. This position is for the RTE for the Advisor Support Platform ART.

• Facilitating alignment across multiple teams and roles - from Scrum Masters to product managers to system architects.
• Facilitating PI Planning
• Promoting cross-team collaboration
• Creating safe space during inspect & adapt workshops
• Fostering teamwork ensures new ARTs are launched with a culture of trust, collaboration, and ownership of delivery outcomes.
• Coaching on Scaled Agile practices
• New tool adoption
• Maximizing delivery
• PI Planning Preparation – work with business, product, and technology leadership to ensure that the work that is prioritized for the teams aligns with the enterprise’s (and Schwab’s) strategic goals and that expected outcomes related to those priorities are defined.
• PI Planning – helps ensure that the work the teams commit to aligns with the priorities set by leadership. Encouraging realistic planning and transparency around what can and cannot be achieved within the PI. Facilitating the resolution of any prioritization conflicts.
• ART Sync – monitoring progress towards commitments, ensuring transparency around progress, scope changes and trade-offs, and assisting the teams in clearing risks and roadblocks through escalation.
• ART Demo – facilitating team demos to stakeholders to ensure that what’s being delivered meets their expectations.

What you have

To ensure that we have fulfilled our promise of "challenging the status quo," this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have.

Required Qualifications

▪ Direct experience supporting project and platform delivery for the Schwab Advisor Services’ Advisor Support Platform (ASP), Salesforce, and myQ applications
▪ RTE certification and experience
▪ Rally experience
▪ 8+ years of Project Manager experience, managing multiple large, complex and cross functional projects, with emphasis on product development, systems, and technical environments
▪ Demonstrated, applied experience establishing and delivering complex technology solutions including supporting a concurrent portfolio of technology work of at least $2M
▪ Executes Agile principles and practices that foster collaboration and enhance iterative development
▪ Leverages advanced expertise to improve advanced benefits management processes
▪ Architects advanced processes to manage risks and regulate modifications per policy
▪ Uncovers complex phenomena through sophisticated data analysis
▪ Fosters ongoing operational excellence by designing processes for organizational capability development
▪ Executes sophisticated processes to efficiently manage interrelated projects and programs
▪ Establishes communication processes for smooth information flow with others involved in a project or effort
▪ Collaborates across teams, facilitates partnerships, and supports cooperative efforts
▪ Provides thought leadership in the business area and independently drives strategic initiatives
▪ Supports a culture of teamwork by promoting cooperation
▪ Manages complex interactions to maintain productive professional relationships
▪ Leverages diverse expertise to develop strategies in cross-functional projects or programs

Preferred Qualifications

▪ Refines strategies and workflows to ensure adaptability in evolving circumstances
▪ Synthesizes complex data, manages resources, and develops strategic insights
▪ Supports peers in technical areas to refine their knowledge, skills, and abilities
▪ Enables stakeholders to align decisions with business goals
▪ Influences best practices to plan to prepare for opportunities or challenges
▪ Creates processes to help others successfully manage organization-wide change
▪ Verbally articulates ideas impactfully, fostering open dialogue
▪ Presents compelling arguments to inspire action
▪ Sets performance-driven goals across groups and drives continuous improvement

In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities