Lead Agilist (Release Train Engineer)

Cognizant’s Digital Engineering practice is seeking a highly qualified Lead Agilist with experience developing and building high-performing, scalable, enterprise applications. You will be part of a digital software team that works on high-demand applications. Our engineers have a passion for high-quality, reliable and maintainable code. You will work side by side with product managers, designers, and clients, making decisions together in order to quickly deliver valuable working software to clients and their users. Our engineers are agile and retrospective, and not afraid to identify what we’re doing wrong, so we can fix it, and what we’re doing right, so we can improve on it. Above all, we judge success by the success of our team and the happiness of our customers.
Cognizant Digital Engineering If you’re like us, you’ve got big ideas. At Cognizant, we’re exploring new ideas every day. We help industry leading companies reinvent their business models and innovate products that create new value—by connecting people with things, insights and experiences. Cognizant digital engineering designs, engineers and delivers digital products and experiences that drive digital-first business models. We offer the most comprehensive digital engineering expertise and client-centric methodology for sustainable innovation.

Location: Irving, Texas

You must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
Cognizant will not sponsor H-1B or other U.S. work authorization for this role. 

Roles/Responsibilities:
•Members of the agile release train, such as scrum masters, agile team members, and business owners, should know the lean-agile mentality and techniques.
•Assist the product manager in getting ready for PI. Help teams with feature estimation and the aggregation of estimates for larger pieces of work like capabilities and epics by planning and ensuring the vision, roadmap, and program backlogs are ready
•Using the agile release train, they must improve the flow of work
•Assist in the management of risks, dependencies, and roadblocks
•Promote DevOps principles inside the organization to aid in the design and continuous enhancement of a continuous delivery pipeline
•To assist continuous improvement, collect program flow measurements and other important metrics
•Coach Lean-Agile methods and mindsets to leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters
•Assist in the management of risks and dependencies
•Impediments should be escalated and tracked
•Contribute to the resourcing of major bottlenecks
•Encourage teamwork as well as System and Solution collaboration
•Architects/Engineering Collaboration between the Product and the Solution
•Management, Product Owners, and other stakeholders will assist in ensuring that strategy and execution are in sync
•Resolve contingencies and complicated issues, provide leadership to project teams, and act as a consultant/coach to management
•Keep a watchful eye on any potential hazards or roadblocks that could stymie growth
•Evaluate the Development Operations and improvise workflow
•Develop and assist the lean user experience. Operation excellence and program execution are also collaborated by the RTEs
•All the lean budgets and work execution is done by the RTE. They also manage the teams and define SAFe® operational policies. RTEs act as the subject-matter expert
•Encouraging people to use Agile and SAFe® best practices and methods
•Continuously refine and keep linked to developing issues and discussions in the greater community of Agile adopters

Required Qualifications:
•Enabling ART
•Facilitate PI and Planning
•Managing Risks
•Help to resolve impediments.

Travel: 0-5% 
Why Choose Cognizant?
It takes a lot to succeed in today’s fast-paced market, and Cognizant Technology Solutions has become a leader in the industry. We love big ideas and even bigger dreams! We stand out because we put human experiences at the core. Our associates enjoy robust benefits and training opportunities from our industry-recognized, award-winning Academy team. You will have access to hundreds of technical trainings to keep your skillsets fresh and have opportunities to acquire certifications on the newest technologies.
Everything we do at Cognizant we do with passion—for our clients (fortune 100 companies), our communities, and our organization. It’s the defining attribute that we look for in our people.
If you love ambiguity, excited by change, and excel through autonomy, we’d love to hear from you! 
About Cognizant Digital Engineering
Well-designed software transcends digital technology, going beyond the fulfillment of basic requirements to focus instead on human needs. Within Cognizant Digital Engineering, we help clients develop software products that transform human insights into tangible, production-ready digital solutions. We also work with our clients to scale their native cloud applications. Using insights from the lived experiences of our consumers, we seamlessly replace traditional service strategies with engaging, precise, and direct digital applications. Designing phenomenal software is vital to success in the digital economy—and we understand that a human-centric approach is key to this design. 
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