American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager focused on delivering investment results and building long-term client relationships while supporting research that can improve human health and save lives. Founded in 1958, the firm’s 1,400 employees serve financial professionals, institutions, corporations, and individual investors, offering a wide range of investment strategies across a variety of investment disciplines.
We are committed to providing institutional-quality, actively managed solutions with a performance-centered mindset. Our expertise spans global growth equity, global value equity, disciplined equity, multi-asset strategies, global fixed income, alternatives, and ETFs.
Privately controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management. This empowers us to align our decisions with client expectations and concentrate on their long-term money management needs.
Our culture of winning behaviors exemplifies our dedication to clients every single day. Delivering investment results enables us to distribute over 40% of our dividends—more than $1.8 billion — to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, a 500-person, non-profit basic biomedical research organization with a controlling interest in American Century Investments. Our dividend payments provide ongoing financial support for the Institute’s work of uncovering the causes, treatments, and prevention of life-threatening diseases, like cancer.
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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.
Responsibilities:
- 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, including the ART sync, Leadership sync, Scrum of Scrums, etc
- Coach and train leaders, teams, Scrum Masters, and others in Lean-Agile practices and approaches
- Help manage risks and dependencies. Call out and track impediments
- Provide input on resourcing to address critical bottlenecks
- Encourage collaboration between teams and System and Solution Architects/Engineering Work with Product and Solution Management, Product Owners, and other team members to help ensure strategy and execution alignment
- Improve the flow of value through value streams by improving and assessing the practices associated with DevOps and Release on Demand in the Continuous Delivery Pipeline
- Assists the portfolio by facilitating feature estimation by teams and the roll-up to Epics
- Regularly meets 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
Qualifications:
- 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 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
- Prior experience working in the Financial Services industry (preferred)
- 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
Additional Requirements:
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.
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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