Release Train Engineer – Vice President

Role Overview

• 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.

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. SAFe RTE, Scrum Master and Agile Certifications are preferred.

Benefits

• medical, dental & vision coverage
• 401(k)
• life, accident, and disability insurance
• wellness programs
• paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays.