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Humana’s seeking a Senior Release Train Engineer (RTE) to join the Marketing Analytics team. In this role, you will have end-to-end responsibility as facilitator and coach of a moderately complex Agile Release Train (ART). This includes leveraging various Agile methodologies and program maturity, assessments, metrics, dashboards to both coach and demonstrate to the teams how they best align around value delivery with the spirit of continuous improvement. You will leverage feedback loops and ceremonies designed to identify and navigate the various challenges that are impeding the flow of work. Overall, as the Senior Release Train Engineer, you will encourage a culture of innovation by implementing SAFe Agile processes and principles which include techniques to increase collaboration, predictability, transparency and velocity.

Key Role Functions

• Serve as the ART conductor, leading the appropriate use of SAFe principles, ceremonies and tools for a moderately complex program

• Facilitate PI Planning readiness by fostering a continuous exploration process that drives the synthesis of a vision, a roadmap, and backlogs, and through pre- and post-PI planning events

• Actively coach, mentor and influence technical teams, scrum masters, and business partners in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets

• Help teams refine value streams

• Coach teams to identify and remediate related dependencies/barriers including taking ownership of improvement items that come from the inspect & adapt and problem-solving workshop events

• Encourage collaboration between teams and system and solution architects and engineering

• Create collaborative environments resulting in aligned decisions among program, technical and business teams

• Orchestrate synchronized program level processes and executes across several scrum and product teams

• Collaborate with Product and Solution Management, Product Owners, and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment

• Collaborate with the Agility Enablement Hub on the overall program execution and operational excellence

• 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

• Ensure teams maintain focus on quality and continuous delivery of business value while generating artifacts necessary to maintain cadence and synchronization on the train

Use your skills to make an impact
 

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Business, Information Technology or a related field

• SAFe Scrum Master certified

• 3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or related role

• 2+ years of experience working on large scale, technically complex projects

• Experience working within the SAFe Framework as an IT Project Manager, scrum master, other related mentorship type role

• Knowledge of Agile/Scrum/Kanban development methodology

• Familiarity with one or more Agile Lifecycle Management Tools like Azure DevOps or JIRA Align

• Familiarity of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

• Prior experience in the health solutions industry

• Demonstrate execution through complex value streams

• Success in working across multiple teams of stakeholders including IT Teams, Business Teams, Product Managers, Product Owners and Portfolio Managers

• Excellent communication skills, mentorship/leadership competencies, expertise in operating through influence, and high level of emotional intelligence

• Must be passionate about contributing to an organization focused on continuously improving consumer experiences

Preferred Qualifications

• Scaled Agile (SAFe) certification(s):  RTE and/or Safe Program Consultant (SPC)

• Advanced Scrum Master certification like CSP-SM, A-CSM, or PSM III

Additional Information 

To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees’ ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees must meet the following criteria:

• At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is recommended; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested

• Satellite, cellular and microwave connection can be used only if approved by leadership

• Employees who live and work from Home in the state of California, Illinois, Montana, or South Dakota will be provided a bi-weekly payment for their internet expense.

• Humana will provide Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees with telephone equipment appropriate to meet the business requirements for their position/job.

• Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information

Humana offers a variety of benefits to promote the best health and well-being of our employees and their families. We design competitive and flexible packages to give our employees a sense of financial security—both today and in the future, including:

• Health benefits effective day 1

• Paid time off, holidays, volunteer time and jury duty pay

• Recognition pay

• 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match

• Tuition assistance

• Scholarships for eligible dependents

• Parental and caregiver leave

• Employee charity matching program

• Network Resource Groups (NRGs)

• Career development opportunities

Our Hiring Process

As part of our hiring process for this opportunity, we may contact you via text message and email to gather more information using a software platform called HireVue. HireVue Text, Scheduling and Video technologies allow you to interact with us at the time and location most convenient for you. 

If you are selected to move forward from your application prescreen, you may receive correspondence inviting you to participate in a pre-recorded Voice, Text Messaging and/or Video interview.  Your recorded interview will be reviewed and you will subsequently be informed if you will be moving forward to next round of interviews.

If you have additional questions regarding this role posting and are an Internal Candidate, please send them to the Ask A Recruiter persona by visiting go/Buzz and searching Ask A Recruiter! Please be sure to provide the requisition number so we may be able to research your request quicker.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Pay Range

The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.

 

$106,900 - $147,000 per year

 

This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.

Description of Benefits

Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.

About us
 

Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is committed to putting health first – for our teammates, our customers and our company. Through our Humana insurance services and CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare, Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action to employ and to advance in employment, all persons regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.