Release Train Engineer - Vice President

The Release Train Engineer plays a meaningful role in delivering high-quality modern solutions as part of the Agile Release Train (ART). This role will be accountable for acting as a servant leader and Agile coach to the teams on the ART and as a change agent, evangelizing the tenets of Agile and Scrum across Functions and Finance Risk Technology. 

Responsibilities: 

• 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 

Qualifications: 

• Demonstrated ability to become a product SME with deep understanding of Epics, value streams, data flows, systems, and program dependencies 

• 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

  Education:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

• SAFe RTE, Scrum Master and Agile Certifications are preferred