Release Train Engineer - DUV

Introduction

Do you want to be part of a breakthrough change and make the difference? Do you want to develop, coach and guide a large group of people towards an Agile organization?

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We need an engaged Release Train Engineer (RTE) who strives for continuous structural improvements. If you want to be part of a high performing team, we invite you to read the Job Description below and let us know if you are the person we are looking for.

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Job Mission

Within ASML the RTE is the recognized Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) expert and competence owner, who orchestrates the agile teams through the ceremonies in an Agile Release Train (ART). The RTE together with the Chief Product Owner (CPO) ensures great performance of the train and provides full transparency on what is going on in the ART.

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The RTE has regular communication to teams & stakeholders and ensure stakeholders are being managed and teams stay engaged.

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Organization Information:

The DUV D&E (Development and Engineering) Optical Column (OC) department is responsible for the optical column, from photon generation towards a good quality aerial image which can be printed in photoresist, and is concerned with the design, development, testing, integration and qualification of the optical column performance in the TWINSCAN system.

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The department functionality consists of the source/laser, beam delivery, dose control, Illumination, reticle masking, projection and conditioning of the liquid and gaseous bodies in the optical path. The department transitioned the last four years from the project (“waterfall”) way of working to the SAFe way of working.

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Job Description

• As RTE, you are responsible to ensure that the ART is setup in the most optimal way for fast and high quality delivery.
• You guide the people in the train to ensure that the ART is improving itself and will become excellent.
• Together with the scrum masters (SM) you ensure SAFe competence development.
• You ensure that the ART stays on track with their deliverables (e.g. manage escalations / changing priorities).
• You measure and report on the performance and identifies improvements for the ART itself.
• In the end, the RTE is responsible for Delivery Excellence within the ART.

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As Release Train Engineer you are responsible for:

• Creating transparency and alignment on ART status by setting up, coordinate and facilitating ART ceremonies
• Optimizing flow by tracking, reporting, measuring ART performance and installing continuous integration/delivery
• Ensuring fast delivery of the ART by removing ART impediments and managing ART dependencies
• Ensuring optimal guidance and excellence for the teams by coaching and developing the SM’s and align the way of working across teams
• Ensure delivery excellence by keeping the ART stable and shielding it from external interferences
• Provide analyses of current (work)processes, evaluate bottlenecks and advice regarding improvements in processes and procedures
• Minimize blockers for ART progress by managing the risks

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Education and experience:

• Professional experience in SAFe; (SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) certification is a pre)
• Extensive knowledge sharing on Agile, lean and SAFe.
• Experience with design and implementation of complex change and improvement projects within an international and complex environment;
• Large group facilitation and overseeing the bigger picture
• Proactive problem solving
• Courageous to deliver the truth, even if it’s not what people want to hear
• Situational leadership, feels ownership/responsible and deals fairly with everyone
• Planning & organizing skills
• Change leadership, continuous improvement and process management
• Domain / business knowledge preferable
• 2-5 years experience as RTE or SM in Agile environment

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Personal Skills: and Competencies:

• Excellent communicator, being able to influence, and creative in managing a large and diverse range of stakeholders at all organizational levels to effect sustainable change;
• Focus on collaboration on across dependencies and results.
• Coaching on agile practices and behavior for everybody on the ART with a high focus on developing other people to help people & teams grow
• Acts as a servant leader and escalation level for the SMs and protect the teams
• Maintains personal effectiveness and people focus under pressure, high speed of change and uncertainty;
• Be open, transparent, courageous and express trust
• Being disruptive where needed and say “NO” when required, breaking ineffective patterns. To ensure focus is kept and keep the teams from getting distracted
• Creating commitment within the organization
• Awareness on content/technical  level to keep the train on track
• Drive program level continuous improvement.
• Encourage train level thinking and prevent sub-optimization.
• Challenge the trains in view of the Agile KPIs towards greater efficiency

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Position in the value chain

The RTE works closely with the SM’s in the train, the relevant architect and the CPO to ensure that the ART stays on track and improves in performance. S/he ensures alignment with other RTE’s. In that sense, the teams in the ART are the suppliers for the RTE. Main customers for deliverables are in the line of the Program/Factory & Customer Support.

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Other information

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Work Experience: 2-3 years,4-9 years

Travel: No

Education Level: Bachelor,Master,PhD

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Team: Projects, Programs and Change

Technical Field: