Release Train Engineer - Vice President
About The Position
Develop deep product expertise, becoming an SME on program‑level Epics, scope, dependencies, risks, and sequencing. Drives PI Readiness by ensuring Features/Epics are well‑defined, prioritized, decomposed, dependency‑mapped, and reviewed with PMs, POs, and Tech Leads well ahead of PI Planning. Maintains a holistic dependency map across teams, coordinating mitigation strategies, sequencing, and cross‑team communication. Lead readiness checkpoints to ensure architectural runway, backlog health, risk visibility, and stakeholder alignment prior to PI Planning. Ensure smooth PI execution by enabling impediment removal, reinforcing flow, and maintaining alignment with Product and Engineering leaders. Build strong, trust‑based relationships with Business Owners, Product Managers, Product Owners, Engineering Leads, Tech Leads, and Scrum Masters. Facilitate program‑level ceremonies including PI Planning, ART Sync, Scrum of Scrums, Inspect & Adapt, and System Demos. Support consistent delivery by reinforcing practices that drive predictability, built‑in quality, and operational excellence. Maintain and leverage program metrics (predictability, flow, quality, risks, dependencies) to identify improvement opportunities across the ART. Coordinate major feature releases and ongoing value delivery to customers Ensure risk and compliance goals are met through enablement of high code quality, robust backlogs, and reduction of technical debt Enable the removal of or escalate impediments to the Scrum Teams or ART progress Demonstrated ability to become a product SME with deep understanding of Epics, value streams, data flows, systems, and program dependencies
Requirements
- 7+ years working in an Agile environment with deep understanding of Scrum, Kanban, Scaling Agile and Lean Agile Frameworks.
- 5+ years working in an Agile environment as a SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE), Scrum @ Scale Scrum of Scrums Master (SoSM), or similar roles from other scaling frameworks.
- Expert knowledge in Jira and Zephyr Enterprise with ability to create dashboards, team boards, and Planview
- Expert in facilitation, problem solving and influencing outcomes
- Expert knowledge of best practices in value driven development (requirements management, prototyping, hypothesis driven development, usability testing).
- Strong knowledge of technical engineering best practices including test driven development, continuous integration, DevOps.
- Demonstrated knowledge of common practices to manage risk from risk identification through mitigation and monitoring
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Nice To Haves
- SAFe RTE, Scrum Master and Agile Certifications are preferred
Responsibilities
- Develop deep product expertise, becoming an SME on program‑level Epics, scope, dependencies, risks, and sequencing.
- Drives PI Readiness by ensuring Features/Epics are well‑defined, prioritized, decomposed, dependency‑mapped, and reviewed with PMs, POs, and Tech Leads well ahead of PI Planning.
- Maintains a holistic dependency map across teams, coordinating mitigation strategies, sequencing, and cross-team communication.
- Lead readiness checkpoints to ensure architectural runway, backlog health, risk visibility, and stakeholder alignment prior to PI Planning.
- Ensure smooth PI execution by enabling impediment removal, reinforcing flow, and maintaining alignment with Product and Engineering leaders.
- Build strong, trust‑based relationships with Business Owners, Product Managers, Product Owners, Engineering Leads, Tech Leads, and Scrum Masters.
- Facilitate program‑level ceremonies including PI Planning, ART Sync, Scrum of Scrums, Inspect & Adapt, and System Demos.
- Support consistent delivery by reinforcing practices that drive predictability, built‑in quality, and operational excellence.
- Maintain and leverage program metrics (predictability, flow, quality, risks, dependencies) to identify improvement opportunities across the ART.
- Coordinate major feature releases and ongoing value delivery to customers
- Ensure risk and compliance goals are met through enablement of high code quality, robust backlogs, and reduction of technical debt
- Enable the removal of or escalate impediments to the Scrum Teams or ART progress
- Demonstrated ability to become a product SME with deep understanding of Epics, value streams, data flows, systems, and program dependencies
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
