Senior Release Train Engineer - SAFe Gov Transformation

BLACKROC Recruitment; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

BLACKROC Recruitment seeks an experienced Release Train Engineer to join a large-scale Federal Government transformation program in Australia. The role coordinates planning, dependencies and multi-stream delivery, operating across policy, regulatory and technology domains.

You will lead PI Planning, manage cross-team delivery, and report to senior stakeholders while ensuring governance and compliance in a highly regulated government environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of leading large-scale government transformation programs.
• Strong experience in SAFe or comparable scaled Agile environments.
• Proven track record as an RTE, STE or similar senior delivery role.
• Hands-on experience facilitating PI Planning.
• Experience across business design and systems implementation.
• Experience working in highly regulated government environments.
• Strong executive and senior stakeholder management skills.
• Solid program and portfolio management experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and facilitate Program Increment (PI) Planning and other large-scale planning events.
• Coordinate delivery across multiple teams, workstreams and releases.
• Manage cross-team dependencies, risks, issues and delivery challenges.
• Work with business, policy, regulatory and technology stakeholders.
• Support alignment between business requirements, operational change and technology delivery.
• Provide delivery reporting, governance and transparency to senior stakeholders.
• Support delivery within a SAFe / scaled Agile environment.
• Ensure delivery aligns with government governance, assurance and compliance requirements.

Skills

SAFe framework

PI Planning

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

Dependency management

Cross-team coordination

Governance reporting

Job description

BLACKROC Recruitment seeks an experienced Release Train Engineer to join a large-scale Federal Government transformation program in Australia. The role coordinates planning, dependencies and multi-stream delivery, operating across policy, regulatory and technology domains.

You will lead PI Planning, manage cross-team delivery, and report to senior stakeholders while ensuring governance and compliance in a highly regulated government environment.