# Release Train Engineer

**Company**: S&P Dow Jones Indices
**Location**: Hyderabad, Telangana
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced Release Train Engineer to lead the planning and execution of Program Increments (PIs) and drive operational excellence across complex product portfolios.

**Responsibilities & Impact**

- Lead the planning and execution of PIs to deliver prioritized business outcomes

- Facilitate program increment planning readiness and coordinate with Product Management and Tech Team to define the release on-demand plan

- 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

- Drive predictability, quality, and efficiency in delivery across the ART(s)

**Voice of Change & Team Enablement**

- Lead, coach, and develop Scrum Masters and/or Flow Masters to drive 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

**Agile Transformation & Coaching**

- 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

**Stakeholder Collaboration & Communication**

- Partner closely with Product Management, Business Owners, and Technology leadership to drive alignment and decision-making

- Assist with economic decision-making by facilitating feature and capability estimation by teams

- Communicate effectively across stakeholders to ensure transparency of progress, risks, and outcomes

**Continuous Improvement & Metrics**

- Lead Inspect & Adapt workshops and implement improvement actions across teams and ARTs

- Track and produce key program-level metrics reports

- Leverage metrics and insights to identify improvement opportunities

**Cross-ART & Portfolio Alignment**

- 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

**Responsible AI & Governance**

- Accountable for embedding Responsible AI practices across value streams

- Promote adherence to standards for human oversight, data privacy, ethical use, and technical safeguards in delivery

**Organizational Agility & Culture**

- Act as a change agent to advance Lean-Agile maturity across the value streams and divisions

- Enable collaborative partnerships that support training, coaching, and adoption of Agile principles and scaled agile ways of working

**Knowledge Management & Collaboration**

- 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

**Requirements**

- Minimum 7+ yrs of RTE experience across product teams

- 3+ years of experience being 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

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Bachelor's in Business, Technology, or a related field (Master's preferred)

- Financial industry experience preferred

- SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE) certification preferred

- Additional certifications such as SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), SAFe Agilist (SA), or SAFe LPM are a plus

**What We Offer**

- Advancing Essential Intelligence mission

- Competitive salary

- Hybrid working model, twice a week work from office

## Skills

### Required
- SAFe framework
- ART execution
- Agile principles
- Lean-Agile practices
- AI-generated summaries
- Predictive analytics
- Azure DevOps
- Confluence
- Power BI
- MS Teams
- SharePoint
- JIRA
- VersionOne

### Nice to have
- SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE) certification
- SAFe Program Consultant (SPC)
- SAFe Agilist (SA)
- SAFe LPM
- BDD
- ATDD
- TDD
- CI/CD
- Pair programming
- Automation
- Kaizen

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