Senior Release Train Engineer – Agentic AI Delivery

New York Life; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 148,000 - 211,000; Full time

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Job summary

New York Life is seeking a Release Train Engineer to lead the delivery of an Agentic AI web application. You will steer multiple agile teams across product, AI/ML, platform, and security to deliver outcomes with disciplined program management.

You will coordinate AI capabilities, APIs, cloud services, and enterprise integrations, ensuring production readiness and measurable value while balancing exploration and risk across the organization.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Agile delivery, program management, or engineering delivery leadership.
• 5+ years of experience functioning as an RTE, Senior Scrum Master, Agile Program Lead, or equivalent cross-team delivery leader.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating multiple engineering teams delivering complex enterprise applications.
• Strong knowledge of SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, Agile planning, dependency management, and release management.
• Experience working with modern web/application architectures, APIs, cloud platforms, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.
• Working knowledge of Generative AI and LLM-based application architectures.
• Ability to facilitate technical conversations among AI engineers, software engineers, architects, product managers, security teams, and business stakeholders.
• Strong executive communication, facilitation, conflict resolution, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Proven ability to identify systemic impediments and drive resolution across organizational boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Lead and facilitate the Agile Release Train (ART) across product, web engineering, AI/ML, platform, architecture, security, QA, and DevOps teams.
• Facilitate PI Planning, ART Syncs, Scrum of Scrums, system demos, Inspect & Adapt sessions, and dependency/risk reviews.
• Partner with Product Management and Architecture to translate product strategy into executable PI objectives and delivery plans.
• Maintain visibility into milestones, dependencies, risks, impediments, and cross-team commitments.
• Drive predictable delivery while enabling experimentation and learning for AI capabilities.
• Coach teams and leaders on Agile/SAFe practices and continuously improve ART effectiveness.

Skills

Agile delivery

SAFe / Scrum

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Tools

CI/CD

DevOps

Cloud platforms

Job description

New York Life is seeking a Release Train Engineer to lead the delivery of an Agentic AI web application. You will steer multiple agile teams across product, AI/ML, platform, and security to deliver outcomes with disciplined program management.

You will coordinate AI capabilities, APIs, cloud services, and enterprise integrations, ensuring production readiness and measurable value while balancing exploration and risk across the organization.