Agile Delivery Leader / Release Train Engineer (RTE) i Stockholm

Are you experienced in the agile way of working and an inspiring and proactive leader with a passion for teamwork and constant improvement?

Take the chance to become our new Agile Delivery Leader / Release Train Engineer (RTE) and have a key role in our agile transformation journey. You will be a part of a fast-moving international environment where you as a RTE you will drive and support our journey in agile transformation and coordinate the execution of a scaled agile program (release train) using the SAFe framework. You will be responsible for coordination of IT program delivery, agile execution lead, agile coaching of Scrum Masters and teams.

You will be a part of a delivery area that is responsible for systems supporting our business planning processes within the H&M Production Office. The delivery area consists of around 6-8 different teams totaling around 70-80 people. The teams work closely with business stakeholders and other parts of H&M. We have development teams in Sweden and India, and our business in Sweden and China.

We are in the beginning of our transformation and are looking for you who have extensive experience in the agile way of working. We believe you have demonstrated strong performance as a Scrum Master within the SAFe framework or as an Agile Coach or similar, and can drive and influence change on a larger scale. You have a solid IT background and appreciate working in an environment where tight collaboration, continuous improvements and transparency is central.

As a person, we believe you are non-prestigious. You like to ask questions and do not assume that you as a leader have all the answers. You have a holistic view and last but not least, you are a courageous leader. You ensure that agile principles are adhered to and can be a voice of reason and authority.

H&M is an exciting place for an IT career! We open up at least one new store every weekday somewhere around the globe at the same time as we’re expanding online. This requires a lot from our IT-solutions with fun challenges along the way! We offer a dynamic and creative work environment where we as a team grow together. As one of the world’s largest fashion retailers we can offer you endless career opportunities.

Your responsibilities

The job of a Release Train Engineer at H&M comes with a lot of responsibility – and lots of fun.

Your to do-list includes:

- Drive the transformation to large scale agile development, closely partnering with the IT Service Responsible to guide our agile release train

- Drive delivery area level ceremonies (e.g. program increment planning, scrum of scrums, retrospectives)

- Facilitate planning readiness via fostering the preparation of business features, architectural enablers and backlogs

- Assist with execution and feature/capability completion tracking

- Coordinate metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on program-level plans, progress and quality

- Facilitate the flow of value through the program

- Establish and monitor risk and quality for the agile program

- Serve as a point of escalation for impediment removal for the Scrum Masters and scrum teams

- Provide direction and coaching to team members and Scrum Masters

- Foster a team collaborative environment

- Work cross functionally to align strategy, methodology and execution

- Drive continuous improvement via retrospectives; assess the agility level of the program/value stream and help improve

- Train new team members in SAFe methodology

Your skills

Just like everyone at H&M, we believe you are a social, open, communicative sales-minded and ambitious team player full of drive and optimism.

And your skills include:

- Ability to plan, prepare and moderate program ceremonies with >70 participants including key stakeholders within Business and IT

- 5+ years of experience in IT development

- Experience as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach

- Experience from introducing lean/agile way of working

- Experience from working with continuous improvements in a lean/agile environment

- Experience from applying multiple software development frameworks (e.g. waterfall, iterative, agile) to enable more efficient software delivery

- Experience from working with distributed and/or offshore teams

- Excellent communication skills in written and spoken form

- It’s a great merit if you have previous experience from SAFe

Sounds interesting? Here’s your chance for a career out of the ordinary!

For more information please contact Caroline Lindfors +46 8 5176 2375.

Please apply with CV and personal letter no later than 1st of April 2018. 

We accept applications in both Swedish and English.

The IT department is an important part of the company’s business and carries out operations, software development and maintenance of the company’s systems and business applications. Our goal is to supply as cost efficient IT solutions as possible in order to offer our customers “Fashion and quality at the best price in a sustainable way”. The IT-department is located in Stockholm and Borås and conducts business virtually all over the globe. The H&M group includes in addition to H&M the brands H&M Home, COS, & Other Stories, Monki, Weekday, Cheap Monday and ARKET. As an IT-department, we work with all brands.