Senior Release Train Engineer

Cox Enterprises; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cox Automotive seeks a Senior Release Train Engineer to lead large Agile Release Trains, navigate dependencies, and drive value delivery across multiple teams. You will coordinate planning, manage risks, and ensure alignment with strategic goals in a complex software environment.

The role requires deep Agile expertise, strong facilitation skills, and the ability to manage stakeholder expectations while promoting continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years' experience as Release Train Engineer or 5+ years' as Scrum Master/Agile PM.
• Strong technical aptitude and experience leading software delivery.
• Experience with ALM tools such as Rally or TargetProcess.

Responsibilities

• Lead large, complex Agile Release Trains to success.
• Facilitate release planning ceremonies and coordination with stakeholders.
• Manage backlog and ensure data integrity in ALM tools.
• Coordinate feature releases across multiple teams and trains.
• Drive continuous improvement using agile metrics and ceremonies.

Skills

Release Train Engineer

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

ALM tools

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Rally

TargetProcess

Job description

Cox Automotive is seeking a talented Senior Release Train Engineer to join its team. The Senior Release Train Engineer (RTE) is an outcomes-driven problem solver whose primary purpose is to lead large, complex Agile Release Trains (ARTs) to success by navigating the complexities of delivering software solutions consistently across diverse environments.

The Senior RTE must creatively resolve and escape a wide range of impediments, manage risk, assure value delivery, and drive program-level continuous improvement. They play a critical role as a link between multiple scrum teams, facilitating communication, opening the flow of information, and sharing important progress updates to ensure all teams involved in the ART are focused on successful delivery.

The Senior RTE is accountable for the overall coordination, execution, and delivery of value through the program, while ensuring alignment with the company’s strategy, commitments, and goals.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Oversees release trains (groups of agile teams) that are of strategic importance to our business and have complex scope and interdependencies.
• Has responsibility for facilitating ceremonies and work management for both the Release Train Team, as well as a subset or all of the delivery teams associated with that Release Train.
• Facilitates the coordinated preparation of release planning for the release train and delivery teams, including communication and coordination with stakeholders and customers during feature definition and delivery.
• Actively manages the backlog, as well as ALM tool data integrity for accurate reporting. This includes the collection of metrics and KPI's.
• Actively manages the backlog, as well as ALM tool data integrity for accurate reporting. This includes the collection of metrics and KPI's.
• Coordinate major feature releases and ongoing delivery of value to customers where multiple teams, release trains, or solution groups are involved in development.
• Resolve/report a wide range of issues and manage dependencies and risks across the ART, between ART's, as well as across delivery teams.
• Leverages agile delivery metrics and regular Agile ceremonies to identify and drive continuous improvement, in order to maximize organizational performance and execution against the backlog.
• Regularly participates in the RTE and SM Community of Practice, helping the organization to maintain alignment, learn new techniques, and improve technical and quality practices.
• Work with RTE and SM community to determine ways to help ARTs across the company improve cross-training and solution group coordination and collaboration.
• Applies Agile principles and methodology solutions with a pragmatic, stakeholder-management approach.

WHO YOU ARE

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 4 years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 4 years' experience; a Ph.D. and 1 year of experience; or 10 years' experience in a related field.
• 4+ years' experience in a Release Train Engineer role; or 5+ years' experience in a Scrum Master or Agile Program Manager title.
• Strong technical aptitude and experience leading teams in delivering quality software.
• Experience using ALM tools preferred; Rally or Target process experience is a plus.
• Position requires minimum 2 days / wk in-office; candidates must live in metropolitan area of job location.

Preferred

• Experience leveraging and interpreting agile metrics.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate large planning and solutioning sessions.
• Understanding of Agile at scale philosophies & methodologies.
• Experience with Organizational Change Management practices.
• Experience working in an Agile organization using Scrum, XP, Kanban, or Agile at scale practices.