**Senior Principal Release Train Engineer** **What we are looking for:** Keurig Dr Pepper is seeking a Senior Principal Release Train Engineer who serves as a Lean-Agile leader. The Senior Principal Release Train Engineer builds high performing teams, applies and facilitates team events, processes, and best practices, to help the organization achieve specific outcomes. **As a Senior Principal** Release Train Engineer **, you will…** + Drive effective and efficient implementation of the Scrum framework at a team level for one to two scrum teams, with members from two or more companies. + Develop a collaborative and self-managing team through a compelling vision, active facilitation, and powerful coaching. + Facilitate and improve value of various scrum events (e.g., daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning meetings, sprint review meetings, sprint retrospective meetings). + Identify and manage impediments that prevent a team from producing valuable output. + Protect the team from distractions and hold the team accountable for work. + Measure and optimize flow, i.e., WIP limits. + Support PI planning, and the alignment of PI Objectives. + Act as a change agent (including helping the business adapt to agile principles). + Adapt process guidelines to maximize productivity. + Establish the team Kanban board. + Ensure efficient communication between the Scrum Team, Product Owner/Manager, and other stakeholders. **Who you are:** + Expert knowledge of product life cycle, including software development methodologies (SAFe) design and implementation. + Expert knowledge of Scrum, Lean, XP, Kanban, and other Agile development techniques. + Deep knowledge of test automation methods and concepts. + Expert knowledge of agile principles across project management, Scrum, product management, etc. + Leading knowledge of the principles and methods to identify, analyze, specify, design, and manage functional and infrastructure requirements. + Leading skills in release and deployment management. + Expert skills in agile estimation and planning. + Expert ability to make sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions. + Expert ability to train, coach and mentor the team. + Expert ability to build strong team dynamics and team spirit to sustain cooperative working relationships. + Proven ability to continuously improve by learning new tools and techniques and finding new ways to accomplish work activities and objectives. + Proven ability to connect and influence others to achieve team goals. + Proven ability to innovate by experimenting, accepting constructive feedback, adapting, and evolving. + Expert ability to vary styles of interaction to match the needs of a variety of business and technical audiences. + Expert ability to resolve conflict by effectively dealing with disagreements and handling emotionally charged individuals. + Expert ability to remove barriers and enable teams to complete their objectives. **Total Rewards:** **Benefits:** Our people are the heart of our business, which is why we offer robust benefits to support your health and wellness as well as your personal and financial well-being. We also provide employee programs designed to enhance your professional growth and development while ensuring you feel valued, inspired and appreciated **Requirements:** **Minimum Qualifications/Requirements:** + Bachelor’s degree in related field (e.g., Information Systems, Technology, Business Administration,) or equivalent combination of education and work experience. + Typically, 6+ years’ relevant experience including 4+ years’ experience working with Lean, Agile, or DevOps frameworks. + Typically, 4 years’ experience managing teams and/or complex projects, and/or as an RTE, Scrum Master, Product Owner, Agile Coach, or other related position. + Experience in organizing, planning, and executing complex projects from conception through implementation. + Experience coordinating multiple teams in a technology environment. **Licenses and Certifications Required:** + Certified Scrum Professional, Scrum Master or SAFe certification. **Company Overview:** **Why join us?** Keurig Dr Pepper (NASDAQ: KDP) is a modern, leading coffee and beverage company with a bold vision built to deliver growth and opportunity. We operate with a differentiated business model and world-class brand portfolio, powered by a talented and engaged team that is anchored in our values. We seek diversity in our workforce and empower our team of ~28,000 employee to develop and grow. We care for our employees’ health, wellness, personal and financial well-being by offering robust benefits. We work with big, exciting beverage brands and the #1 single-serve coffee brewing system in North America at KDP, and we have fun doing it! Come be a part of a company where you can feel valued, inspired, and appreciated at work. Keurig Dr Pepper (NASDAQ: KDP) is a leading beverage company in North America, with a portfolio of more than 125 owned, licensed and partners brands and powerful distribution capabilities to provide a beverage for every need, anytime, anywhere. We operate with a differentiated business model and world-class brand portfolio, powered by a talented and engaged team that is anchored in our values. We work with big, exciting beverage brands and the #1 single-serve coffee brewing system in North America at KDP, and we have fun doing it! Together, we have built a leading beverage company in North America offering hot and cold beverages together at scale. Whatever your area of expertise, at KDP you can be a part of a team that’s proud of its brands, partnerships, innovation, and growth. Will you join us? We strive to be an employer of choice (https://careers.keurigdrpepper.com/) , providing a culture and opportunities that empower our team of ~28,000 employees to grow and develop. We offer robust benefits to support your health and wellness as well as your personal and financial well-being. We also provide employee programs designed to enhance your professional growth and development, while ensuring you feel valued, inspired and appreciated at work. Keurig Dr Pepper is an equal opportunity employer and affirmatively seeks diversity in its workforce. Keurig Dr Pepper recruits qualified applicants and advances in employment its employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability or association with a person with a disability, medical condition, genetic information, ethnic or national origin, marital status, veteran status, or any other status protected by law. 109458 Keurig Dr Pepper is an equal opportunity employer and affirmatively seeks diversity in its workforce. Keurig Dr Pepper recruits qualified applicants and advances in employment its employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability or association with a person with a disability, medical condition, genetic information, ethnic or national origin, marital status, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.