Release Train Engineer

Overview

Lead Program Increment planning, delivery management and Agile coaching for an Agile Release Train within S&P Dow Jones Indices' Technology Governance & Delivery Enablement team.

What you'll do

• Lead the planning and execution of Program Increments (PI) to deliver against prioritized business outcomes
• Facilitate program increment planning readiness through Continuous Exploration and Pre and Post PI planning meetings
• Coordinate with Product Management and Tech Team to define the release on-demand plan per prioritized epics/features
• Enhance planning efficiency by leveraging AI-generated summaries and action recommendations
• Facilitate core ART events, including PI Planning, ART Sync, System Demos, and Inspect & Adapt sessions
• Ensure alignment between business strategy, portfolio priorities, and execution across value streams
• Proactively manage risks, dependencies, and impediments impacting delivery across teams, including escalation as needed
• Ensure effective prioritization aligned to business value and organizational goals
• Drive predictability, quality, and efficiency in delivery across the ART(s)
• Lead Scrum of Scrums/ART syncs and coordinate with scrum masters and other ART members to manage dependencies and risks
• Use AI powered tools and predictive analytics to forecast feature completion timelines and capacity constraints
• Enable data-driven decision-making by integrating AI insights into PI planning and execution
• Lead, coach, and develop Scrum Masters and/or Flow Masters to build high-performing, self-organizing teams
• Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement across teams
• Enable teams to deliver efficiently by removing impediments and improving flow
• Support Product Management in leveraging AI to identify gaps, redundancies, or hidden dependencies in epics and features
• Champion adoption and scaling of Lean-Agile and SAFe practices across the ART and broader organization
• Coach leaders, teams, and stakeholders on Agile principles, practices, and mindset shifts
• Support enterprise-wide transformation by mentoring across functions and value streams
• Partner closely with Product Management, Business Owners, and Technology leadership to drive alignment and decision-making
• Facilitate feature and capability estimation by teams to assist economic decision-making
• Communicate effectively across stakeholders to ensure transparency of progress, risks, and outcomes
• Build strong cross-functional partnerships across teams and functions to enable seamless execution
• Lead Inspect & Adapt workshops and implement improvement actions across teams and ARTs
• Track and produce key program-level metrics reports (e.g. cumulative flow diagram, PI burn-up and burn-down charts)
• Leverage metrics (flow, predictability, quality, outcomes) and insights to identify improvement opportunities
• Leverage AI-powered tools to analyze sprint velocity, predict delivery risks, and identify bottlenecks across the ART
• Drive systemic improvements across ART and value stream operations
• Collaborate across multiple ARTs and value streams to manage dependencies and optimize integrated value delivery
• Align execution with portfolio governance, enterprise priorities, and strategic themes
• Embed Responsible AI practices across value streams, including human oversight, data privacy, ethical use, and technical safeguards
• Act as a change agent to advance Lean-Agile maturity across value streams and divisions
• Enable collaborative partnerships that support training, coaching, and adoption of Agile principles and scaled agile ways of working
• Influence cultural change toward a more adaptive, resilient, and learning organization
• Serve as a voice of reason and authority and build consensus
• Facilitate a healthy team dynamic with respect to priorities and scope
• Utilize AI tools to capture, summarize, and surface key decisions, action items, and program knowledge across the ART
• Enable faster onboarding and alignment via AI-curated documentation and knowledge repositories

What you'll need

• Minimum 7+ years of RTE experience across product teams
• 3+ years of experience as a team level coach and/or program level coach
• 5+ years of people management experience
• Significant experience leading Agile business value delivery in complex, matrixed organizations
• Proven experience operating at Program and/or Portfolio levels
• Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with SAFe framework and ART execution
• Experience coaching teams, Scrum Masters, and leaders to improve Agile maturity
• Strong facilitation skills in large, cross-functional environments
• Proven ability to manage risks, dependencies, and delivery across multiple teams
• Strong communication and stakeholder alignment skills across business and technology
• Analytical mindset with experience leveraging metrics for decision-making
• Exposure and experience related to AI capabilities in SAFe and Scrum practices
• Ability to understand domain specific and technical discussions so as to facilitate agile events and discussions meaningfully
• Ability to partner with other Scrum Masters, agile roles and teams to increase effectiveness of agile practices within the ART(s) and broader organization
• Effective skills and experience in facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, predictability, and increasing transparency
• Extensive experience identifying risks upfront and taking accountability to get them resolved in a timely manner
• Proven track record of enabling teams to deliver prioritized business value efficiently with a focus on accelerated delivery, enhanced quality and maximum ROI
• Expert in agile metrics and utilization of metrics for continuous improvement
• Experience with tools such as Azure DevOps, Confluence, Power BI, MS Teams, SharePoint, JIRA, VersionOne, etc.
• Excellent organizational, statistical, analytical, problem solving, written and oral presentation skills
• Proven track record of identifying and improving Agile execution on a team
• Basic knowledge of lean portfolio management
• Familiarity with Kanban practices and metrics
• Thorough understanding of enterprise software development processes and lifecycle, with familiarity of product development life cycle
• Works effectively with leaders at all levels

Nice to have

• Bachelor's in Business, Technology, or a related field (Master's preferred)
• Financial industry experience
• SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE) certification
• Additional certifications such as SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), SAFe Agilist (SA), or SAFe LPM
• Deep understanding of Lean-Agile principles, DevSecOps practices, and value stream delivery
• Prior roles as VSE or RTE and/or agile coach
• Knowledge and/or experience with BDD, ATDD, TDD, CI/CD, pair programming, automation and Kaizen

Details

• Location: Hyderabad
• Shift time: 12 to 9 pm IST
• Working model: Hybrid, twice a week work from office
• Grade 12 (10+ years experience)