Senior Release Train Engineer 100% (F/M/D)

At Julius Baer, we celebrate and value the individual qualities you bring, enabling you to be impactful, to be entrepreneurial, to be empowered, and to create value beyond wealth. Let’s shape the future of wealth management together.

As a Release Train Engineer you are part of the strategic delivery unit, directly reporting to the Global Head of IT. You deliver the strategic technology related roadmaps in partnership with our business. You take responsibility for the technology related deliveries ensuring cross initiative dependency management and building solutions that are sustainable, global where possible and capable of supporting growth (scalable). You continuously support Julius Baer in offering innovative solutions to our Wealth Management clients.
In that specific role, you act as RTE for our strategic Portfolio Management and Position Management Domain, organized as an Agile Release Train (ART) based on SAFe principles.

YOUR CHALLENGE

• Work with the ART leadership team, agile devops teams and other ART’s/departments to ensure strategy alignment and effective execution of the delivery while minimizing risk
• Support and guide the definition and implementation of Epics, Initiatives and Features
• Ensure adherence to our Technology Governance across our 5 Governance Pillars (Operations, Architecture, Delivery Quality, Finance and Risk)
• Ensure adherence to relevant guardrails including our project methodology, risk controls and strategic settings
• Jointly manage the program backlog with the ART leadership team and formulate staffing demands towards the Line organization (expert pools)
• Establish, align, and communicate the cadence of Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR), Program Increments (PIs) and Iterations
• Organize and conduct PI plannings, incl. defining objectives with the ART leadership team and agile devops teams
• Facilitate effective ART operation including structure, processes and execution by managing and optimizing the flow of value incl. improving DevOps and release on demand in the continuous delivery pipeline
• Manage ART-level risks, issues, dependencies and impediments with the ART leadership, agile teams and other ART’s/departments
• Support and coach agile teams and Scrum Masters to find the right solution(s) for their impediments
• Work with Finance and the ART leadership to manage the ART finances, capacity and Objective and Key Results (OKRs)/Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Support and facilitate the Architecture Runway, guardrail adherence and Enterprise Architecture governance in strong collaboration with the System Architect
• Foster and contribute to Communities of Practice (CoP) and facilitate continuous improvement in the ART and outside
• Be part of vendor solution evaluations (RfI, RfP) and ensure proper due diligence from IT perspective during the selection process

YOUR PROFILE

• Excellent stakeholder and project management skills incl. budgeting, resource strategy and planning
• Ability to collaborate successfully between our three hubs (Switzerland, Luxemburg and Singapore) with various internal and external stakeholders on all levels of the organization
• Excellent communication, decision-making and interpersonal skills
• Experience in leveraging Scrum, and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodologies
• Growth-oriented and agile mindset and passionate about change
• Self-motivated, team-oriented, and hands-on personality, fostering a collaborative work environment
• At least 5 years of experience in enabling and leading agile teams across large transformation programs, Agile Release Trains (ARTs) of varying size and complexity
• Know-how in the banking domain, specifically in the area of portfolio management, position keeping and reporting is a strong plus
• Higher education required (bachelor or masters in computer science or similar field)

As a Release Train Engineer supporting our strategic initiatives, you

• Are a strong IT representative of the ART leadership team (e. g. Business Owner, Product Manager, System Architect), accountable for planning and facilitating agile ceremonies, managing dependencies, overall value flow, resolving impediments and ensuring adherence to the IT governance
• Act as role model for the JB Agile Behaviors, providing a psychologically safe environment that promotes transparency and constructive challenges
• Facilitate the quarterly business reviews and PI Planning processes by fostering a continuous exploration process that drives the synthesis of a vision, alignment to strategy, prioritization decisions, roadmap definition and backlog refinement

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The international reference in wealth management

Julius Baer is the leading Swiss wealth management group. We focus on servicing and advising sophisticated private clients from around the world, taking into account what truly matters to them – in their business and personal life, today and for future generations.

Headquartered in Zurich, we are present in around 60 locations worldwide, including Dubai, Dublin, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hong Kong, London, Lugano, Luxembourg, Madrid, Mexico City, Monaco, Mumbai, Santiago de Chile, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, and Tel Aviv.

Why join Julius Baer?

At Julius Baer our employees enjoy the benefits of a global company with the support and collegiality of a much smaller one. We are growing quickly, but we remain dedicated to maintaining our accessible structure with flat hierarchies, and approachable and supportive leaders.

With offices around the world, we offer an international and stimulating work environment and the opportunity to work with a diverse team of highly motivated colleagues, bringing the best of the bank to our clients.Our core values of Care, Passion, and Excellence define the tone of how we interact with each other and our partners.

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