Sr. Release Train Engineer || 100% Remote role || W2 role
About The Position
The Release Train Engineer (RTE) coaches and supports an Agile team of teams known as an Agile Release Train (ART). The RTE facilitates ART activities and ceremonies, helps identify and resolve impediments, and manages risks and dependencies. This role is key to implementing the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). The RTE coordinates delivery teams, Scrum Masters, product managers, product owners, and stakeholders to align development work with business needs. The role also monitors ART execution, delivery, maturity, and performance, and supports continuous improvement in Agile practices and, where applicable, DevOps and Release on Demand practices. This is a 6+ month contract role described as 100% remote, with Irving, Texas also listed in the location details. The posting specifies a W2 role.
Requirements
- Experience with the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
- Experience with Scrum or Kanban.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of experience.
- At least 7 years of experience with Agile development, ideally in a Scrum Master, Product Owner, or other leadership role.
- Release Train Engineer experience is required.
- Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.
- Experience supervising or leading teams, with demonstrated ability to drive and influence peers.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience coaching and mentoring teams in Agile principles and practices.
- Experience leading and facilitating Agile ceremonies.
- Experience fostering team self-organization and continuous improvement.
- Experience using enterprise Agile planning tools such as Digital.ai Agility, Planview Leankit/EnterpriseOne, Atlassian Jira Align, Broadcom Rally, or Apptio Targetprocess.
Nice To Haves
- Agile, Scrum, SAFe, or project management certifications, such as SA, SPC, RTE, CSM, CSP, or PMI.
- Background in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, health, or life sciences.
Responsibilities
- Plan, organize, and facilitate ART ceremonies, including PI planning, ART sync, PO sync, Scrum of Scrums, system demos, and inspect-and-adapt events.
- Coach delivery teams and Scrum Masters on Agile and Scrum practices.
- Foster communities of practice and promote software engineering and quality best practices.
- Manage and optimize the flow of value through the ART by understanding workflows, identifying bottlenecks, and suggesting improvements.
- Assist in tracking and monitoring the execution of features and capabilities.
- Work with delivery teams to identify and address risks or impediments to achieving their objectives.
- Communicate openly and regularly with delivery teams and stakeholders about progress and challenges.
- Manage and coordinate team dependencies.
- Measure ART delivery, maturity, and performance, and review metrics with the ART to identify improvement opportunities.
- Promote the use of KPIs, OKRs, and other outcome metrics across teams.
- Create timelines, milestones, and increment and release cadence for the ART, and oversee reports and analyses tracking progress toward goals.
- Work with product managers, product owners, and other stakeholders to align business needs with development work.
- Understand and operate within lean budgets and ensure investments adhere to approved budgets and other guardrails.
- Provide input on resourcing needs to address critical bottlenecks.
- Assist with and facilitate feature and capability estimation by teams.
- Contribute to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization.
- Where applicable, assess and improve DevOps and Release on Demand practices to improve the flow of value.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
