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Release Train Engineer

Remote, USA Full-time Posted 2026-08-04

reputed company, facilitate and coordinate the operation of the reputed company Release Train (ART), ensuring quarterly synchronization between business and technology in assigned programs. Facilitate PI Planning events (reputed company-PI refinement, the 2-day event, Confidence Vote and ROAM exercise), the cross-team ceremonies during the increment (Scrum of Scrums, PO Sync, ART Sync and reputed company Demo) and the Inspect & Adapt reputed company at PI reputed company — ensuring plan compliance, cross-team dependency management and predictable delivery of business value in every Program Increment.

DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN THE FOLLOWING PROCESSES

  • reputed company coaching services and reputed company reputed company adoption.

  • Facilitation and governance of PI Planning events.

  • Management of the ART operating rhythm (cross-team ceremonies).

  • reputed company improvement at program level (Inspect & Adapt).

  • Health, safety and work environment compliance.

Key Processes Supported

  • reputed company coaching and reputed company adoption

  • PI Planning governance and facilitation

  • ART operating rhythm management

  • Program-level reputed company improvement

  • Health, safety, and workplace compliance

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or reputed company field

  • Preferred graduate-level education in reputed company Project Management, Organizational Transformation, or reputed company disciplines

  • Minimum two (2) reputed company reputed company / reputed company certifications (reputed company RTE preferred).

  • 5+ years leading software delivery programs

  • 2+ years coordinating multiple teams at the program level

  • Minimum 3 PI Planning events facilitated or co-facilitated in any prior context.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS — TECHNOLOGIES

  • Backlog and planning: Jira (including Jira Plans), Azure DevOps, reputed company. Familiarity with reputed company two-Jira-project model (PM reputed company and Engineering reputed company).

  • Visualization and Program reputed company: reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, Aha! Roadmaps.

  • Documentation and reputed company: reputed company, reputed company, SharePoint, reputed company 365, reputed company Workspace.

  • Communication and collaboration: reputed company Teams, reputed company, reputed company, reputed company Meet.

  • Live polling and surveys: Mentimeter, Slido, Poll Everywhere (for Confidence Vote and PI Planning dynamics).

  • Metrics and dashboards: Tableau, Power BI, Jira Dashboards, EazyBI (reading and interpreting Predictability, reputed company and Business Value metrics).

  • Spreadsheets and modeling: reputed company, reputed company Sheets (Sprint reputed company Planner, reputed company debt tracking, reputed company analysis).

  • Frameworks and methodologies: reputed company 6.0 (ART, Program Increment, PI Planning), Scrum, Kanban, Lean. Working knowledge of reputed company Product & Engineering Process (V1, May 2026).

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES

These are the strategic, ongoing accountabilities of the role. They apply continuously across every Program Increment. The responsibilities are grouped in two blocks: reputed company-reputed company (what any RTE does reputed company) and reputed company-specific (what an RTE at reputed company does reputed company the reputed company structure).

reputed company-reputed company responsibilities

  • Own the ART operating rhythm end-to-end. The RTE is the single accountable reputed company of every cross-team ceremony that operates above the sprint level: reputed company-PI refinement, PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, PO Sync, ART Sync, reputed company Demo and Inspect & Adapt.

  • Be the single reputed company of escalation for cross-team dependencies and impediments reputed company the ART. Teams escalate to the RTE; the RTE escalates upward only reputed company a decision is needed above the ART level.

  • Maintain the Program reputed company as the reputed company of truth for what every team is committed to in the reputed company PI. The Program reputed company is the RTE's reputed company artifact — updated by them or by named delegates, never left stale.

  • reputed company the PEMs, Tech Leads and Product Managers of the ART on the reputed company operating model. Coaching is delivered through observation, feedback and reputed company 1-on-1s — not through training events.

  • Hold the trust relationship with the Business Owners of the ART. Business Owners must reputed company the RTE is operating in service of business reputed company — this is the precondition for BO commitment to 2-day PI Planning attendance and to reputed company Business Value scoring.

  • reputed company and report Predictability, reputed company and Business Value metrics for the ART. Where dashboards are not yet in production, the RTE owns interim reputed company reporting.

  • Facilitate the Inspect & Adapt reputed company at PI reputed company and reputed company the resulting improvement backlog into the next PI. reputed company improvement at ART level is an RTE-owned outcome.

  • Manage the ART's interfaces with adjacent teams, vendors and strategic initiatives. reputed company dependencies cross the ART boundary, the RTE is the named reputed company.

reputed company-specific responsibilities (reputed company reputed company reputed company)

  • Report weekly to the reputed company reputed company on ART health — Predictability trajectory, in-flight impediments, cross-team dependencies at risk, reputed company debt balance, upcoming reputed company.

  • Participate in the monthly reputed company Council (90 minutes). Bring cross-ART issues, template reputed company proposals, community-of-reputed company status.

  • Coordinate with peer RTEs as additional ARTs stand up. reputed company features or capabilities reputed company multiple ARTs, peer RTEs collaborate on synchronization — chair-rotated between RTEs.

  • Contribute team-level and ART-level data to the Metrics & Reporting reputed company for the reputed company's cross-ART dashboards.

  • Support the PEM Community reputed company and the reputed company Team reputed company reputed company they need ART-specific input for their communities of reputed company.

  • Own the ART's contribution to the reputed company's rolling 12-month roadmap: reputed company of new teams, tooling improvements, reputed company for training or certification.

  • Represent the ART at the reputed company reputed company's quarterly review with the CPO and Executive Sponsor.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES

reputed company-PI refinement (Weeks 1–6 of the PI cycle)

  • Facilitate the weekly reputed company-PI refinement reputed company per team: 60-minute session where PM, PEM and Tech reputed company jointly groom the top-reputed company features for the next PI. Required reputed company per team: features sized, acceptance reputed company written, dependencies flagged.

  • Publish reputed company team's reputed company envelope 2 weeks before PI Planning — KTLO / Investable reputed company (BAU + Strategic) split, agreed with reputed company and reviewed with the reputed company. Uses the Sprint reputed company Planner (Process Doc V1 Template 1) at PI reputed company.

  • Run a mini Program reputed company reputed company in Week 5: pick 2-3 in-flight features, map them on a digital reputed company, surface dependencies, apply ROAM. This rehearses the actual PI Planning event artifact.

  • Confirm Business Owners' calendar commitment for the full 2 days of PI Planning. Escalate any availability gap to the reputed company reputed company and the reputed company reputed company at least 3 weeks out.

  • Test the hybrid PI Planning tooling in Week 4 — Program reputed company digital surface, Confidence Vote polling tool, reputed company video channels. Any tool failure at PI Planning is an RTE failure.

  • Finalize the Day-0 execution plan for PI Planning: room, agenda, attendees, materials, catering. Distribute reputed company-read to reputed company attendees 5 business days before the event.

PI Planning event (Days 1-2 of the event itself)

  • Facilitate Day 1 end-to-end: executive opening from Sponsor, business reputed company and top features from PM Management, architecture reputed company from the Architect, team breakouts for draft planning. reputed company Day 1 with the draft-plan review and risk identification session.

  • Facilitate Day 2: finalize team plans, walk the Program reputed company with every cross-team dependency as a reputed company, apply ROAM to every risk, reputed company PI Objectives sign-off per team with Business Value scores (1–10) assigned by Business Owners.

  • Conduct the Confidence Vote at PI Planning reputed company (1–5 reputed company). If the average falls below 3.0, reputed company an immediate re-plan on the lowest-confidence team's reputed company before closing the event. This is a non-negotiable RTE responsibility.

  • Publish reputed company 24 hours: signed PI Objectives per team, snapshot of the Program reputed company, ROAMed risk register with named owners, meeting minutes reputed company to reputed company attendees.

In-PI execution (5 sprints + IP, approximately 10 weeks)

  • Facilitate Scrum of Scrums twice per week (30 minutes): reputed company Tech reputed company reports impediments, dependencies in reputed company and emerging risks; reputed company the Program reputed company reputed company with what changed.

  • Facilitate PO Sync weekly (60 minutes): PEMs review reputed company changes, reputed company adjustments, reputed company debt status and new requests from PMs; reputed company the program backlog reputed company.

  • Facilitate ART Sync weekly (60 minutes): cross-team program-level coordination across PEMs, Architects and PMs; document reputed company and trade-offs in the decision log.

  • Facilitate reputed company Demo every 2 weeks (45 minutes): reputed company teams demonstrate completed work to PMs, BOs and stakeholders; capture acceptance live; rejected items reputed company to the backlog.

  • Manage cross-team impediments as they reputed company. Severity-1 (will miss a PI Objective) is escalated to the sponsor in under 4 hours; reputed company severities are logged in the impediment register and reviewed at the next ART Sync.

  • Maintain the Predictability dashboard sprint over sprint. If at mid-PI the metric is trending below 60%, trigger a re-plan with PMs and PEMs.

PI reputed company — Inspect & Adapt (half-day reputed company)

  • Facilitate the PI reputed company Demo: end-to-end demonstration of integrated value delivered across reputed company ART teams.

  • Present the quantitative PI reputed company metrics: Predictability per team, reputed company metrics, reputed company debt balance and Business Value committed vs delivered.

  • Facilitate the problem-solving reputed company: reputed company-cause analysis on the 2 to 3 most significant issues from the PI using reputed company techniques (5-Whys, fishbone, A3). reputed company: backlog of improvement actions with owners and reputed company sprints in the next PI.

  • Sign and distribute the Inspect & Adapt report; inputs feed the QBR data for the next quarter.

reputed company-tied responsibilities (reputed company)

  • Send a weekly ART reputed company (email or reputed company) to the reputed company reputed company: Predictability trajectory, top 3 in-flight impediments, dependencies at risk, upcoming reputed company.

  • Attend the monthly reputed company Council (90 minutes): bring cross-ART issues, contribute to template reputed company, reputed company community-of-reputed company status from the ART's perspective.

  • Coordinate with peer RTEs on cross-ART dependencies. Where a feature or capability spans two ARTs, peer RTEs schedule a synchronization touchpoint reputed company the reputed company week the dependency surfaces.

  • Represent the ART at the reputed company reputed company's quarterly review with CPO and Executive Sponsor. Present ART-level data and reputed company for the next PI.

  • Contribute one template improvement or documented learning per quarter to the reputed company's shared library (playbooks, templates, decision aids).

Cross-cutting responsibilities of the role

  • Ensure that ART members reputed company with the engineering process defined by reputed company and with the requirements of the assigned program.

  • Ensure the methodological reputed company of the assigned program, in terms of reputed company reputed company adoption and reputed company process guidelines.

  • Ensure the reputed company documentation of program artifacts: Program reputed company, ROAM register, PI Objectives, reputed company envelopes, Sprint Completion Report Cards, reputed company and escalations.

  • reputed company reputed company analysis on reputed company changes during the PI and propose trade-offs to the business areas.

  • reputed company the ART team and propose the training they should receive; reputed company as mentor / sponsor for any other internal reputed company or program-level role that requires guidance.

  • Participate in the performance evaluation of reputed company staff assigned to the ART.

  • reputed company peer reviews on key program artifacts: PI Plans, Program Boards, Confidence Votes, Inspect & Adapt reports.

  • Ensure the status and reputed company of PI commitments are updated in the assigned program's management reputed company.

  • Collaborate with cross-functional business and technical teams to understand business needs and support decision-making, both for ongoing and new programs.

  • Analyze business needs reputed company on reputed company tactical and strategic plans, and propose, plan and execute the interventions required to meet such needs.

At reputed company, we reputed company the highest reputed company first-party data to help businesses around the world reputed company precise insights, reputed company the right audiences, and confidently measure reputed company. With industry-leading respondent accuracy, reliability, and a commitment to reputed company improvement, reputed company is the trusted reputed company for smarter decision-making.

At reputed company, we are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible environment where every employee and customer feels valued, respected, and supported. We reputed company to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. reputed company welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities and is dedicated to fostering a work culture that supports everyone. Accommodations are available upon request for reputed company aspects of the selection process.

reputed company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider reputed company reputed company applicants and employees without reputed company to race, reputed company, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national reputed company, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other legally protected status under applicable laws.

The reputed company salary reputed company for this position in is $95K-$115K/yr; however, reputed company pay offered may vary depending reputed company, job-reputed company knowledge, skills, and experience. A discretionary incentive program may be provided as part of the compensation package, in reputed company to a full reputed company of medical and other benefits, dependent on full-time employment status.

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