Manager, Release Train Engineering

Role overview

Lead delivery coordination across an Agile Release Train, helping multiple teams plan together, manage dependencies, and deliver work that supports business priorities. The role combines scaled Agile facilitation, delivery oversight, coaching, and cross-functional problem solving. It works closely with product, technology, business, and delivery leaders to improve visibility, predictability, and release readiness.

Responsibilities

- Organize and facilitate Program Increment planning, including preparation, the planning event, and follow-up. - Coordinate teams around shared priorities, objectives, milestones, and delivery commitments. - Surface and help resolve cross-team risks, dependencies, and blockers. - Track progress and communicate objectives, risks, milestones, and outcomes to stakeholders. - Coach teams and leaders in Agile and SAFe practices, and support ongoing improvements to delivery flow and collaboration. - Coordinate release readiness with product, program, and engineering partners to support production deployments.

Requirements

- Experience as a Release Train Engineer, senior Scrum Master, Agile delivery lead, Agile program manager, or in a comparable scaled delivery role. - Strong knowledge of Agile and SAFe, including Release Trains, PI planning and objectives, dependency management, and continuous improvement. - Experience coordinating delivery across multiple teams and complex technology initiatives. - Ability to facilitate large planning and alignment sessions and work effectively across technical and business groups. - Skill in identifying delivery risks and impediments, and making progress, metrics, and insights clear to leadership.

Nice to have

- SAFe RTE, Agilist, Scrum Master, SPC, or comparable certification. - Experience in a large enterprise technology environment, with production release planning, or with collaborative planning tools such as Mural. - Familiarity with Jira, delivery analytics, automation, or AI-enabled tools for reporting and risk visibility.

Benefits and work setup

The role is full time. Benefits described include health coverage, family support, paid parental and caregiver leave, professional development, mentoring, and opportunities to join employee groups and volunteer activities.