Release Train Engineer

We're seeking an experienced Release Train Engineer (RTE) to serve as a servant leader and coach for our Agile Release Train (ART), orchestrating the delivery of value across our Organizational Value Stream. This role is ideal for a proven scaled Agile professional passionate about driving flow, alignment, and continuous improvement in a complex environment that balances legacy modernization, new feature innovation, and operational support. You'll lead execution at the program and portfolio levels, ensuring work is aligned, traceable, and tied to strategic outcomes. With 9 cross-functional Agile teams under your guidance, you'll facilitate ART events, support PI Planning, manage cross-team dependencies, risks, and metrics, and contribute to the broader Lean-Agile transformation—including change management. This is a high-impact position for someone with excellent communication skills who thrives on building healthy pipelines, optimizing flow, and fostering relentless improvement across product, engineering, operations, and the PMO. What You’ll Do Serve as the servant leader and primary coach for the ART, guiding Scrum Masters, Product Owners, engineering, product, and operations toward Lean-Agile principles, high performance, and value stream optimization. Orchestrate and facilitate key ART events and ceremonies, including PI Planning, ART Syncs (including Scrum of Scrums), System Demos, Inspect & Adapt workshops, retrospectives, backlog refinement, and post-PI activities such as training management, risk reviews, and metrics analysis. Drive ART execution and PI delivery: plan and coordinate value flow across concurrent workstreams (legacy modernization, new innovations, break/fix & operations), manage cross-team dependencies, track progress, and ensure approvals and governance around the PI process. Optimize flow and predictability: promote a healthy pipeline of work through intake/portfolio input, apply flow metrics, identify bottlenecks, coach on accelerators, and facilitate value stream mapping to improve delivery cadence and reduce waste. Manage risks, impediments, and dependencies at program and portfolio levels: proactively identify, escalate, mitigate, and track risks; remove blockers; and maintain transparency with stakeholders, PMO, product management, and global teams. Ensure alignment and traceability: connect business strategy (IEOS) to execution, making work traceable from portfolio intake through delivery, while supporting readiness checks, backlog health, and stakeholder communication. Partner closely with Product Management/Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Engineering Leads, DevOps, QA, PMO, and offshore partners to maintain program backlog integrity, align on objectives, and deliver integrated, high-quality increments. Drive continuous improvement and relentless improvement mindset: lead Inspect & Adapt sessions, retrospectives, metrics reviews (e.g., PI objectives achievement, flow metrics, defect trends), and share insights to evolve practices and support organization-wide transformation and change management. Enhance tooling and visibility: optimize Jira (and related systems) for ART-level planning, dependency tracking, PI objectives, risk burndown, and cross-team collaboration. Requirements We're Looking For Someone Who Has proven experience as an RTE (or equivalent scaled Agile leadership role) in a multi-team ART environment (ideally 50+ people / 5–12 teams), with deep familiarity in SAFe or similar frameworks. Excels at facilitating large-scale events like PI Planning, ART Syncs, System Demos, and Inspect & Adapt, with strong servant leadership, coaching, and influence skills—able to build trust and alignment without direct authority. Demonstrates excellent communication skills (verbal, written, facilitation) to bridge business, product, engineering, operations, and PMO stakeholders across global teams. Brings a continuous improvement mindset, experience with flow optimization, risk management, metrics-driven execution, and driving change in complex transformations. Thrives in environments with legacy systems, greenfield innovation, and operational demands, while maintaining focus on value delivery, pipeline health, and strategic alignment.