Job DescriptionJob DescriptionRelease Train Engineer (RTE) - Technology Infrastructure Network Services
Location:Remote (U.S.based); no travel required
12 months
Role Summary
MUST HAVE INFRASTRUCTURE EXPERIENCE
As the dedicated Release Train Engineer (RTE) for a Network Products Portfolio (Release Train), you will function as servant?leader and primary coach for 5 teams. Your mission is to accelerate their journey from novice to bank standard agile proficiency within six months, enabling predictable delivery of network hardware/software certifications, risk? remediation actions, automation initiatives, and other infrastructure capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
Area
What You will Do
Agile Program Facilitation
- Plan and run PI Planning, ART syncs, Scrum of Scrums, System Demos, Inspect & Adapt and retrospectives.
- Optimize flow of epics/features; manage cross?team dependencies and risks. | | Coaching & Capability Uplift |
- Coach Product Managers, Product Owners, and Tech Leads on Scaled Agile, Lean Agile mindset, and JIRA hygiene.
- Establish measurement framework to track maturity and accelerate adoption. | | JIRA Governance |
- Configure boards, workflows, dashboards, and automated reports; ensure data quality that feeds executive metrics. | | Continuous Improvement |
- Drive Inspect and Adapt action plans; remove impediments quickly; champion built?in quality and DevSecOps practices. | | Stakeholder Management |
- Provide transparent status and value delivery to SVP, Risk, Compliance, and Enterprise Change Management stakeholders. | Success Metrics (first 6 months)
- Maturity uplift:All teams achieve target proficiency against the bank’s Agile Maturity Model.
- Reliable cadence:90% of committed PI objectives met after 2-3 PI cycles.
- Data quality:<5? JIRA issues missing required fields; automated reporting adopted by leadership.
Required?Qualifications
- 5+ years recent RTE or multi?team Agile Coach experience driving at least two ARTs/Release?Trains end to end.
- Proven success coaching Technology Infrastructure or platform teams (networks, storage, cloud, data centers) rather than pure software engineering / product teams.
- Expert JIRA/Confluence administrator; able to design complex dashboards & reports.
- Demonstrated mastery of Scaled Agile ceremonies, dependency management, and impediment removal.
- Prior experience as a Scrum Master, successfully coaching teams to agile maturity.
- Outstanding virtual facilitation & communication skills.
- U.S. work authorization: ability to support teams during core U.S. business hours.
?Qualifications
- Scaled Agile certification (e.g., SAFe Release Train Engineer).
- Experience in Financial Services or other highly regulated industries.
- Knowledge of Network Services and its lifecycle management and change control.
- Familiarity with enterprise risk & compliance frameworks.