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SAFe 6.0 Certified - RTE Engineer

SAI Systems Intl., Inc.United States🇺🇸United StatesPosted 7 Sept 2026

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
Remote
Location
United States
Posted
3 days ago
SAFeScrumAgileJiraKanban

Job Description

Job Title: Release Train Engineer
Location: Remote, US
Mode: Contract
 
 
Key Responsibilities
ART Leadership & Flow Optimization
  • Serves as the ART conductor, enabling effective use of SAFe principles, ceremonies, and toolsets to optimize flow across multiple Agile teams.
  • Orchestrates and synchronizes program‑level events and execution, maintaining cadence and alignment across teams, products, and dependencies.
  • Partners with Product Management, Solution Management, Product Owners, and Technical Leadership to ensure alignment between strategy, priorities, and delivery.
PI Planning & Program Execution
  • Facilitates PI Planning readiness through Continuous Exploration, enabling clear Vision, Roadmap, and Backlog alignment.
  • Plans and facilitates Pre‑PI, PI Planning, Post‑PI, and Inspect & Adapt events to promote transparency, learning, and execution confidence.
  • Ensures ART health through the effective use of metrics, dashboards, and flow‑based measures that highlight delivery outcomes and improvement opportunities.
Coaching, Mentorship & Culture
  • Actively coaches leaders, Product Managers, Architects, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, technical teams, and business partners in Lean‑Agile principles, systems thinking, and SAFe practices.
  • Fosters a culture of psychological safety, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
  • Encourages collaboration among teams, System and Solution Architects, and Engineering to support technical alignment and sustainable delivery.
Improvement, Risk & Dependency Management
  • Identifies, escalates, and helps resolve cross‑team dependencies, risks, and systemic impediments impacting value delivery.
  • Takes ownership of improvement items resulting from Inspect & Adapt and Problem‑Solving Workshops.
  • Helps teams refine and mature value streams to improve predictability, throughput, and business outcomes.
Tools, Enablement & Operational Excellence
  • Enables effective adoption and use of ART tooling (e.g., Jira Align, Azure DevOps) to improve visibility, alignment, and decision‑making.
  • Partners with the Agility Enablement Hub to continuously improve ART execution and Lean‑Agile maturity.
  • Supports Communities of Practice and promotes Built‑In Quality and modern engineering practices.
Decision‑Making & Autonomy
  • Makes decisions on moderately complex issues using independent judgment within established policies and practices.
  • Manages priorities and timelines for own body of work while adapting to evolving ART and organizational needs.
Required Qualifications
  • On-video collaboration required for this role.
  • Active SAFe® certification: Release Train Engineer (RTE) 6.0
  • Typically 5+ years of related experience, including 2+ years supporting large‑scale, technically complex initiatives
  • Strong experience working within SAFe as an RTE, Scrum Master, Agile Coach, or similar Lean‑Agile leadership role
  • Solid understanding of Agile, Scrum, and Kanban methodologies
  • Demonstrated success leading execution across complex value streams
  • Ability to leverage AI LLM tools to create efficiencies in the processes, continuous improvement, ways of working, backlog hygiene, forecasting and planning.
  • Proven ability to partner effectively with Technology, Business, Product, and Portfolio stakeholders
  • Excellent communication skills, strong facilitation and coaching capabilities, and high emotional intelligence
  • Passion for improving consumer and associate experiences through continuous improvement
Preferred Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in business, Information Technology, or related field
  • SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) 6.0
  • Experience with Agile lifecycle management tools such as Jira Align or Azure DevOps
  • Advanced Scrum Master certifications (SAFe A-SSM, CSP‑SM, A‑CSM, PSM III)
  • Experience in healthcare or health solutions industry
  • Knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
  • Knowledge of Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC)
  • Experience partnering closely with Product Management
  • Familiarity with omnichannel and digital experience delivery, marketing, sales and/or digital platforms.

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