Release Train Engineer

A Release Train Engineer (RTE), is a servant leader, who is responsible for optimizing the flow of epics/features and the value delivered by a smaller Agile Release Train (ART). Key responsibilities include coordinating and facilitating the ART ceremonies, managing dependencies across teams in the ART, and providing visibility into the health of epic/feature delivery and the overall program increment. This role ensures impediments to epic/feature delivery are resolved quickly and protects the teams from outside disruptions to delivery. They manage financials for the ART and assist with resource planning. A RTE I, is an individual contributor at the program level.


Helps define norms/agreements for the ART and enforces the agreements.


Coordinates and facilitates ART ceremonies-e.g. Backlog Refinement, Program Increment (PI) Planning, ARTSync (or PO Sync, Scrum of Scrums), System Demos, Retrospective.


In collaboration with the PM, ensures the program has a healthy product/program backlog.


Facilitates dependency management/risk management/impediment removal for the ART.


Promotes/facilitates communication and collaboration within the ART to support value delivery and PI commitments.


Responsible for providing status updates and reporting pertaining to ART plans/delivery/timelines/impediments to stakeholders and leadership


Ensures Enterprise Change Management and other policy requirements for technology solutions are met for the epics/features delivered by the ART.


Measures ART delivery, maturity, and performance and reviews the metrics with the ART to identify improvement opportunities.


Captures data to help determine/track product funding and resource acquisition needs.


Prior Client experience


Experience with leading large trains