Job Description

Agile Release Train Engineer Lead
Total Experience: 10 to 16 Yrs
Relevant as RTE: 3 + Years
Scrum Master: 4+ Years
SAFe: 2+ Years
RTE level Roles and Responsibilities
1.ART Facilitation

• Leads and serves as the highest authority on the implementation and optimization for the SAFe methodology within the ART
• Lead the Agile Release Train (ART) by organizing and facilitating key Agile ceremonies, including PI Planning, System Demos, and Inspect & Adapt workshops.
• Facilitate Scrum of Scrums (SoS), managing dependencies and risks across Agile teams.
• Support teams in delivering high-value features in alignment with business objectives.

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Facilitating PI Planning
Following activities need to be facilitated by the RTE:

• Inspect and Adapt Meeting
• Organize PI planning meetings, ensure smooth coordination between teams.
• Management Review meeting
• Conduct a Confidence vote and replanning if required.

Post PI Planning activities

• Ensure all risks are captured, categorized, and tracked. Create an action plan to resolve/mitigate open risks/dependencies.
• Data upload to Azure DevOps from PI Planning App.
• Update Dashboard and Metrics to track the progress of the PI.

ART Sync Meetings

• Facilitate regular Scrum of Scrums to track progress, manage dependencies, and escalate impediments.
• Conduct Product Owner (PO) Syncs to align on feature delivery and discuss backlogs.
• Ensure communication flow between teams and stakeholders.

2.Collaboration & Alignment:

• Work closely with Product Management, System Architects, and Business Owners to align strategy and execution.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for all ART stakeholders. - Communicates progress, status and challenges to stakeholders including senior management and ensures that business strategy and technology strategy are connected.
• Manage cross-team dependencies, risks, and roadblocks to ensure timely delivery.
• Foster collaboration between teams, product management, system architects and services.
• Identify and resolve conflicts that impede the ARTs progress

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Facilitate Backlog Refinement

• Collaborate with Discovery Teams for Backlog Prioritization and Feature Readiness across all Release Trains/Value Streams.

Bucket allocation compliance

• Ensure team picks features as per standard bucket allocation.

Facilitating PM/PO Sync

• Conduct Product Owner (PO) Syncs to align on feature delivery and discuss backlogs and reprioritisation required.

Encourage and Track progressive Refinement

• Work with all SMs to ensure progressive refinement are conducted on regular cadence and features are groomed in advance.

Dependency Tracking and Risk Management

• Work with SMs across all the Trains to ensure dependencies and impediments are tracked and resolved on a timely basis and escalated if required.
• Identify and resolve conflicts that impede the ARTs progress

3.Metrics & Reporting:

• Develop and maintain metrics and reports using ADO and other tools to track progress, identify bottlenecks, and drive continuous improvement at Project, Train and Team level.
• Ensure transparency in execution and escalate risks to leadership when necessary.
• Drive predictability and value delivery across the ART.

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Maintain Project, Train and Team level key metrices

• Work with SMs across all the Trains to ensure dashboard and metrics are implemented and tracked on regular basis

Create metrics driven action item

• Feed the metrics data to the management and create data driven action item.

4.Agile Coaching & Continuous Improvement:

• Mentor and coach Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and Agile Teams in SAFe best practices.
• Drive an empower the ART to self-organize and self-manage
• Promote Lean-Agile principles and drive a culture of continuous improvement.
• Conduct retrospectives and feedback sessions to enhance Agile maturity
• Continuously evaluate and refine Agile practices, making data-driven recommendations for enhancements and driving adoption of best practices.

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Continuous Evaluate and Refine Agile practices
Continuously evaluate and refine Agile practices. Improvise processes if required to ensure overall gain in productivity and delivery.
Conduct SAFe training
Regularly conduct SAFe training to update members about SAFe principles and new process changes if any.
5. Compliance and Governance

• Ensure team adheres to SAFe guidelines and organizational standards.
• Track and enforce mandatory compliance training for ART members.
• Ensure that security, data privacy, and regulatory compliance are integrated into ART processes and deliverables.
• Ensure documentation of ART processes and outcomes to support audits and process reviews.

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Organizational and departmental Compliance

• Ensure that ART adheres to the organizational and departmental guidelines are followed by all Trains e.g. Tech Debt allocation, capacity planning, Iteration Demo etc.

Compliance Training

• Ensure that security, data privacy, and regulatory compliance are integrated into ART processes and deliverables.

ISO Compliance

• Work with SMs to ensure that ISO documents are tracked and updated on a regular basis.
• Ensure documentation of ART processes and outcomes to support audits and process reviews.

Our Interview Practices
To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we're getting to know you--not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process
Our Interview Practices
To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we're getting to know you--not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process.
Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.

Skills Required