Remote Release Train Engineer for AI-Driven Delivery

Eliassen Group; Hagåtña (GU); Remote; USD 103,000 - 117,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401k with match

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Release Train Engineer for 100% remote work with East Coast hours. You will own how work flows through a program, protect team capacity, clear blockers, and translate business priorities into small, deliverable pieces.

You will partner with a Product Lead and a Technical Lead and lead through facilitation and flow expertise. Responsibilities include running Kanban systems, resolving risks across data access and integrations, and embedding AI readiness into delivery.

Qualifications

• Proven Release Train Engineer or equivalent senior multi-team Agile leadership with measurable improvements in flow, predictability, and quality.
• Expertise in Kanban, Scrumban, and Lean flow including WIP limits, cycle time, aging work, and dependency management.
• Strong coaching and facilitation skills with the ability to challenge unrealistic commitments and guide trade-offs with senior leaders.
• Adaptive approach that scales down large-framework practices to fit small teams and continuous planning.
• Working knowledge of AI delivery across data, model evaluation, human review, integration, and monitoring.
• Cross-functional leadership experience across business, product, technology, vendors, and risk or controls.
• Nice to have: experience in financial services or regulated industries, launching new small teams, multi-vendor coordination, and SAFe RTE, Kanban, or coaching certifications.

Responsibilities

• Run the system of work by establishing and improving the program Kanban, WIP limits, and clear readiness and done criteria while avoiding unnecessary ceremonies.
• Translate intent into executable work by partnering with product and business leaders to break outcomes into small, testable epics that teams pull based on capacity.
• Clear the path by surfacing and resolving risks, dependencies, and blockers across data access, integrations, and review queues.
• Embed AI readiness into delivery by planning evaluation, human review, monitoring, and support as first-class work.
• Facilitate decisions through planning, syncs, demos, and retrospectives focused on evidence, forecasts, and trade-offs.
• Grow team autonomy by coaching leaders and teams to make sound local decisions that reduce reliance on central coordination.

Skills

Release Train Engineer

Agile leadership

Kanban / Lean

Coaching facilitation

AI delivery knowledge

Cross-functional leadership

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Release Train Engineer for 100% remote work with East Coast hours. You will own how work flows through a program, protect team capacity, clear blockers, and translate business priorities into small, deliverable pieces.

You will partner with a Product Lead and a Technical Lead and lead through facilitation and flow expertise. Responsibilities include running Kanban systems, resolving risks across data access and integrations, and embedding AI readiness into delivery.