Remote Release Train Engineer — AI Delivery & Kanban Expert

Eliassen Group; United States; Remote; USD 103,000 - 117,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is hiring a Release Train Engineer to own the flow of work across a small cross-functional team. You will facilitate planning, coaching, and coordination to translate priorities into deliverable epics while protecting team capacity.

Experience with Kanban/Scrumban, Lean principles, and AI delivery aspects is highly valued. This role is remote with East Coast hours and offers a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Proven Release Train Engineer or equivalent senior Agile leader with measurable improvements in flow, predictability, and quality.
• Expertise in Kanban, Scrumban, and Lean flow including WIP limits and dependency management.
• Strong coaching and facilitation skills; able to challenge commitments with senior leaders.
• Adaptive approach; can scale practices to small teams and continuous planning.
• Working knowledge of AI delivery across data, model evaluation, and monitoring.
• Cross-functional leadership across business, product, technology, vendors, and risk/controls.

Responsibilities

• Run the system of work by establishing and improving the program Kanban, WIP limits, and ready/done criteria.
• Translate intent into executable work by partnering with product leaders to break outcomes into epics.
• Resolve blockers across data access, integrations, and review queues.
• Embed AI readiness into delivery with planning, evaluation, and monitoring work.
• Facilitate decisions through planning, syncs, demos, and retrospectives.
• Coach leaders and teams to increase autonomy and reduce central coordination.

Skills

Release Train Engineer

Agile leadership

Kanban

Scrumban

Lean flow

WIP limits

Cycle time

Dependency management

Coaching

Facilitation

Adaptive planning

AI delivery

Data/model evaluation

Human review

Integration

Monitoring

Cross-functional leadership

Vendors management

Risk/controls

SAFe RTE

Kanban certification

Coaching certifications

Job description

Eliassen Group is hiring a Release Train Engineer to own the flow of work across a small cross-functional team. You will facilitate planning, coaching, and coordination to translate priorities into deliverable epics while protecting team capacity.

Experience with Kanban/Scrumban, Lean principles, and AI delivery aspects is highly valued. This role is remote with East Coast hours and offers a comprehensive benefits package.