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Are you passionate about innovative technology and interested in being a part of a team that will develop IT solutions that will deliver life changing healthcare products to customers and patients in need? If you are looking to make a difference, our SCT team seeks to attract technology leaders like you!

We believe our customers and patients come first. The Johnson & Johnson SCT organization strives to provide a prompt, accurate, and positive customer experience not only in the last mile, but in every mile of a product's journey to our doctors, nurses and patients, mothers and fathers, and all others who use our products and services.

We are digital. We are leading a digital transformation to serve our customers with a specific focus on how we can most effectively use technology within our end-to-end Supply Chain and commercial businesses. Our digital products serve our pharmaceutical sector that not only provides creative breakthroughs and leading health care products but are growing J&J's business models to integrate, interact and enable next-generation health care solutions.

Position Overview: We're searching for an exceptional Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Release Train Engineer to lead our WMS replacement initiative. In this role, you'll play a pivotal part in coordinating and facilitating the agile delivery process for this strategic project. This position presents a unique opportunity to leverage your skills and expertise to positively impact the lives of patients worldwide by optimizing our supply chain operations.

Key Responsibilities:

• As our Release Train Engineer (RTE), you will lead the Agile Release Train (ART) to deliver value and drive continuous improvement. Your duties will include:
• Orchestrating and facilitating ART events to ensure alignment and collaboration among cross-functional teams
• Communicating with stakeholders, escalating impediments, managing risks, and driving continuous improvement initiatives
• Collaborating closely with Product Managers, Architects, and stakeholders to enable an aligned delivery framework and promote a cohesive and scalable strategy
• Managing and optimizing the flow of value through the ART through the development, upkeep and dissemination of a robust suite of metrics intended to enable the management of the flow of value
• Coaching business and technical leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets
• Identifying resource gaps and making recommendations to address critical bottlenecks as part of the Continuous Improvement (CI) practice you will lead
• Providing input on resourcing to ensure strategy and execution alignment
• Maintaining Agile tools and information radiators to provide transparency into progress against Planning Interval (PI) objectives and the flow of value
• Improving the flow of value through value streams by assessing and improving practices associated with DevOps, CI/CD and Release on Demand
• Supporting the development of behavioral change management, communications, and training as needed to drive process and tool adoption
• Collaborating with key stakeholder groups to validate the effectiveness of standard processes and continuously improve process quality
• Creating and sustaining a work environment that drives team engagement and enables business success

Major Duties & Responsibilities:

Facilitate ART Ceremonies

• PI Planning

• Inspect & Adapt

• ART Leadership meetings

• Drive Clearance of Impediments in servitude of the ART and in conjunction with Steering Committee

Collaboration

• Work across multiple BT, Architecture, PL and TS groups to define and deliver innovation solutions

• Accountable for cross team communication

• Understands core internal IT products and ability to drive business value

Business Process Improvement

• In partnership with Product Management, continuously drive process improvement opportunities

Leadership by influence

• Lead cross functional teams to drive them to a solution that addresses the business needs

• High level of flexibility to ensure responsibility for the shape and design of projects required throughout any multi area of the business and cross PLs solutions

• Communicate within the technical and business environments with ability to interpret, develop and present information to multiple audiences

• The SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE) will:

o Optimize flow and communications across iterations and Product Increments (PI)

o Facilitate PI Planning via synthesis of Vision, Roadmap and Backlogs

o Periodic synchronization across Release Trains & Solution Trains, with Inspect & Adapt workshops

o Assist with economic decision-making by facilitating feature & capability estimation

o Escalate impediments to Steering Committees for assistance in clearance for the team.

• Driving Scaled Agile delivery, working in partnership with the Product Owner and Solution / Data Engineer roles to manage risk in the backlog

• Subject Matter expert in platform solutions offered throughout Johnson & Johnson Technology

Qualifications

Required Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree in the field of Information Technology, Computer Science, Business or related field.

Required Years of Related Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in the field of Information Technology, Computer Science, Business or related field.
• 8+ years of progressive work experience with demonstrated proficiency in Agile product delivery
• 5+ years of experience overseeing release cadences and aligning solutions, changes, and features to a release calendar
• 5+ years of experience facilitating interaction and appropriate communication between stakeholders, development teams, architecture, UX and others
• 3+ years of experience managing teams of teams or serving as a Release Train Engineer (RTE) for an Agile Release Train (ART)
• Experience with heavily integrated technical product delivery
• Technical aptitude and experience leading teams in delivering quality technology solutions

• SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE) or SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC) certification.

Preferred Qualifications:

Preferred:

• Kanban Management Professional (KMP) certification

• PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) certification

• Experience in developing and implementing strategic IT technologies and related processes.

• Experience in developing technology roadmaps and strategies.

• Experience with pharmaceuticals or adjacent, highly regulated industries with emphasis on supply chain operations.

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities:

• Influential and decisive leader with strong judgement, rooted in integrity

• Confident command of Lean-Agile practices and their implementation, at scale

• Adaptive coaching and mentoring style

• Excellent communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills

• Instinctive attention to detail evident in work product

• Excellent personal organizational skills

• Aptitude with Agile management tools - command of Jira/Jira Plans/Confluence is preferred

• Comfort coaching technology product delivery best practices

The anticipated base pay range for this position is $100,000 to $172,500.

The Company maintains highly competitive, performance-based compensation programs. Under current guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan. The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporation's performance over a calendar/performance year. Bonuses are awarded at the Company's discretion on an individual basis.

Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance.

• Employees may be eligible to participate in the Company's consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).
• This position is eligible to participate in the Company's long-term incentive program.
• Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:
• Vacation - up to 120 hours per calendar year
• Sick time - up to 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington - up to 56 hours per calendar year
• Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays - up to 13 days per calendar year of Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
• Additional information can be found through the link below. https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits

The compensation and benefits information set forth in this posting applies to candidates hired in the United States. Candidates hired outside the United States will be eligible for compensation and benefits in accordance with their local market.

Johnson & Johnson is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

For more information on how we support the whole health of our employees throughout their wellness, career and life journey, please visit www.careers.jnj.com (http://www.careers.jnj.com).