Release Trainee Engineer

Kastech Software Solutions Group • Berwyn, PA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The RTE for AI Foundation serves as orchestration lead for the AI Foundation Agile Release Train (ART), responsible for translating the Product-owned roadmap into a coordinated cross-team delivery plan. This role drives alignment, planning, execution, dependency management, risk mitigation, and operating cadence across product and engineering teams, while ensuring the predictable delivery of enterprise AI platform capabilities and shared AI foundations. The RTE provides end-to-end execution visibility, resolves cross-domain dependencies, removes impediments, and delivers transparent program status and outcomes to leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of experience in Agile delivery, Program Management, Scrum Master, Release Train Engineer (RTE), Technical Program Management, Engineering Program Management, or technology leadership roles.
• Experience leading large, multi-team programs involving cloud, platform, data, AI, or enterprise technology initiatives.
• Experience supporting AI/ML platform programs, Generative AI initiatives, enterprise data platforms, or large-scale technical modernization efforts.
• Strong understanding of SAFe Agile principles, Agile Release Train (ART) operations, and scaled delivery practices.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex cross-team technical dependencies and drive alignment and resolution without direct authority over participating teams.
• Experience coordinating delivery across engineering, architecture, product, and platform teams within a complex enterprise environment.
• Experience managing enterprise stakeholders and providing visibility into program status, risks, dependencies, milestones, and delivery outcomes.
• Working knowledge of modern software architecture concepts, including APIs, integration patterns, microservices, platform architectures, and data pipelines.
• Proven experience developing and maintaining RAID logs, dependency trackers, integrated delivery plans, and program governance artifacts.
• Strong facilitation, communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to effectively engage both technical teams and senior leadership.
• Experience driving program execution, release coordination, risk management, and operational governance across multiple delivery teams.

Nice To Haves

• Working knowledge of Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI governance, MLOps, and modern AI delivery practices.
• Experience supporting enterprise-wide AI transformation, adoption, or AI platform enablement programs.
• SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE), PgMP, PMP, SPC, or comparable program management and Agile certifications.
• Experience leading delivery and coordination across global, distributed, cross-functional engineering organizations.
• Self-driven, highly organized, and execution-oriented, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and deliver outcomes in a fast-paced and evolving technology environment.

Responsibilities

• Tracks roadmap execution and milestone delivery across engineering teams; turns the approved plan into a coordinated cross-team delivery schedule.
• Coordinates onboarding, integration, and implementation schedules for foundational and framework requirements from domain teams.
• Actively manages and resolves cross-team technical/delivery dependencies; engages domain leads directly to unblock work before it hits the critical path.
• Runs the program's status meetings, working sessions, and communication forums across engineering, architecture, platform, and security.
• Owns Pre-PI Planning and PI Planning at the ART level: builds the invite list (Tech & Product leads, Architect, Scrum Leads, Team Leads), facilitates Day 1/Day 2, confirms dependencies and capacity, and drives the ART to a locked plan.
• Maintains the RAID log (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies), drives mitigation plans to closure, and escalates to leadership with options and recommendations.
• Coordinates release planning, technical readiness reviews, and deployment schedules across contributing teams.
• Provides consolidated delivery/risk/timeline reporting tailored to both working teams and senior leadership.
• Tracks decisions, owners, and action items from key working sessions and drives them to closure.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior