Release Train Engineer

About Us

American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager with over 65 years of experience helping a broad base of clients achieve their financial goals. Our expertise spans global equities and fixed income, multi-asset strategies, ETFs, and private investments.

Privately controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management. But there’s an unexpected side to us, too. We direct over 40% of our profits every year—more than $2 billion since 2000—to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. Our ongoing financial support drives the Institute’s breakthrough work and mission of defeating life-threatening diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. So, the better we do for our clients, the more we can do for everyone.

All 1,400 of us across the globe are inspired every day by the unique difference our hard work can make in so many lives. It shows in the curiosity we bring to every initiative, the deep relationships we build with our clients, and the way we treat each other in the hallway. If you’re excited to learn more about us, we can’t wait to learn more about you.

Role Summary

The Lean-Agile SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE) is a servant leader and mentor for the Agile Release Train (ART). The RTE’s primary responsibilities are to plan and facilitate the ART’s events and processes through the preparation, planning, execution, and learning cycles to help improve value delivery. You will work with ART business owners, Product Managers, System Architects, and others to lead and optimize the flow of value the ART delivers. You will mentor, coach, and train as needed across all levels of the ART towards continuous improvement of performance.

This hybrid position will be based out of our Kansas City, MO office.

How You Will Make an Impact

• Establish and communicate the annual calendars for Iterations and Program Increments (PIs)
• 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
• Facilitate the PI planning event
• Facilitate regular synchronization events (ART sync, Leadership sync, Scrum of Scrums)
• Coach and train leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters in Lean-Agile practices
• Help manage risks and dependencies, track impediments
• Provide input on resourcing to address bottlenecks
• Encourage collaboration between teams and System and Solution Architects/Engineering
• Ensure strategy and execution alignment with Product and Solution Management
• Improve value flow through DevOps and Continuous Delivery Pipeline practices.
• Facilitate feature estimation and the roll-up to Epics
• Regularly meet with ART business owners and other partners to think beyond day-to-day activities to determine strategic direction and strategy
• Help to drive the innovation cycle
• Facilitate System Demos

What You Bring to The Team

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, or have related work experience
• Certified in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) SPC or RTE
• 7-10 years of relevant experience
• Prior experience working in the Financial Services industry
• Prior experience working in a role responsible for broad, multi-functional alignment and execution in an Agile environment with demonstrated ability to communicate and influence across business and technical domains, and across all levels of the organization
• Highly motivated with superb communication, leadership, and motivational skills
• Adept at presenting to large groups and able to hold the audience's attention
• Ability to learn new tools and technologies to work effectively in a rapid growth environment
• Demonstrates the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitively Driven, Adheres to the highest ethical standards and business practices, and Supports a culture of compliance

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation package with bonus plan
• Generous PTO and competitive benefits
• 401k with 5% company match plus annual performance-based discretionary contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, formal mentorship program, live and online learning

Learn more about our benefits and perks.

Employees are required to be in the office on a scheduled frequency. Adherence to this schedule is essential to fulfilling the expectations of the role.

American Century Investments is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act and all other applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. As such, American Century strives to provide a reasonable accommodation to any qualified individual under the ADA to perform essential job functions.

We encourage people of all backgrounds to join us on our mission. If you require reasonable accommodation for any aspect of the recruitment process, please send a request to [email protected]. All requests for accommodation will be addressed as confidentially as practicable.

American Century Investments believes all individuals are entitled to equal employment opportunity and advancement opportunities without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age for individuals forty years of age and older, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws. ACI does not discriminate or adopt any policy that discriminates against an individual or any group of individuals on any of these bases.

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