Release Train Engineer – Vice President
Citi
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Tampa • Florida • Texas • United States
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Salary
💰 $113,840 - $170,760 per year
Job Level
About the role
- 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.
Requirements
- 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.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. SAFe RTE, Scrum Master and Agile Certifications are preferred.
Benefits
- medical, dental & vision coverage
- 401(k)
- life, accident, and disability insurance
- wellness programs
- paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
AgileScrumKanbanSAFe Release Train EngineerScrum of Scrums MasterJiraZephyr Enterprisevalue driven developmenttest driven developmentcontinuous integration
Soft Skills
facilitationproblem solvinginfluencing outcomesrelationship buildingstakeholder alignmentcommunicationcoordinationleadershiporganizational skillsrisk management
Certifications
SAFe RTEScrum MasterAgile Certifications