Sr. Release Train Engineer

Vertafore • Denver, CO

3d • $115,000 - $135,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Are you passionate about driving delivery excellence and enabling leadership to achieve strategic outcomes? As a Senior Release Train Engineer (RTE) at Vertafore, you will go beyond traditional facilitation. You’ll partner with product and technology leaders to drive releases, optimize delivery, and provide actionable insights through metrics. This role is deeply embedded in the products you support, ensuring alignment across teams, transparency in progress, and proactive risk management. If you love technology, are hungry to learn, and are looking for a creative, fun and friendly workplace where you get to interact with leaders across the organization to create efficiencies and that will transform the insurance industry, we would love to get in touch with you.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of SAFe principles and Vertafore’s implementation.
• Ability to interpret and act on delivery metrics to influence outcomes.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills with senior leadership.
• Strategic thinking with a pragmatic approach to problem-solving.
• Experience in release management and dependency tracking across complex environments.
• Longterm exposure/experience working in an Agile environment using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Scrum, XP, Kanban, or another scaled Agile model
• Has a degree in Computer Science/Business or similar valuable experience
• 5+ years in Agile delivery roles (RTE, Program Manager, or similar).
• Familiarity with software development practices and technology stacks.

Nice To Haves

• SAFe certification
• Experience with Rally, ServiceNow, Office365, SharePoint, and Tableau

Responsibilities

• Delivery Leadership: Partner with product and technology leadership to ensure predictable, high-quality delivery across multiple Agile Release Trains.
• Release Management: Own the release process end-to-end, including approvals, change management, and communication of milestones.
• Metrics & Insights: Analyze and interpret delivery metrics (capacity, predictability, feature completeness, WIP) to identify trends and drive improvements.
• Product Engagement: Develop deep knowledge of assigned products, their roadmaps, dependencies, and revenue impact to anticipate risks and enable informed decisions.
• Stakeholder Partnership: Build strong relationships with key stakeholders (Product Owners, Scrum Masters, DevOps, Shared Services) to foster collaboration and accountability.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify gaps in process or performance and lead workshops, training, or ad hoc sessions to get teams “green” and improve maturity.
• SAFe Facilitation: Coach and facilitate SAFe ceremonies (PI Planning, SOS, Feature Refinement) to align teams and deliver on commitments.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees