About This Role
6 years of experience
Skills: SAFe, Release Train Engineer, PI Planning, ART Coordination, Agile, Scrum, Dependency Management, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Jira / Confluence / Miro, Capital Markets, Banking Domain, DevOps, Continuous Improvement, Coaching
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Release Train Engineer (RTE) with 5+ years of experience to lead and facilitate Agile Release Train (ART) delivery across two squads of 7 people each — totalling 15 team members. You will serve as a servant leader and coach for the ART — facilitating PI Planning, managing cross-team dependencies, removing impediments, and driving continuous improvement across the delivery organisation. Banking and capital markets domain experience is essential for this role — enabling you to engage credibly with business stakeholders, understand regulatory delivery constraints, and navigate the governance frameworks of a complex financial services environment.
Key Responsibilities
ART Facilitation & Delivery
- Facilitate and coordinate all ART-level ceremonies — PI Planning, ART Sync, System Demos, and Inspect & Adapt workshops — ensuring effective cross-team alignment and programme increment delivery.
- Manage and coordinate delivery across two squads of 7 — ensuring teams are aligned to PI objectives, dependencies are managed, and risks are identified and mitigated proactively.
- Track and manage ART-level programme board — maintaining visibility of features, dependencies, risks, and milestones across both squads throughout each programme increment.
- Facilitate cross-team dependency resolution — identifying blockers, coordinating between squads, and escalating impediments that cannot be resolved at team level.
- Support squad-level Scrum Masters — providing coaching, guidance, and facilitation support to ensure effective Agile ceremonies and team delivery rhythms.
- Monitor and report ART-level delivery metrics — velocity, predictability, feature completion, and PI objective achievement — providing clear, evidence-based progress updates to programme leadership.
- Coordinate System Demo preparation and execution — ensuring both squads deliver integrated, demonstrable working software at the end of each programme increment.
Continuous Improvement & Coaching
- Lead Inspect & Adapt workshops — facilitating structured retrospectives at ART level, identifying systemic improvement opportunities, and driving measurable delivery improvement.
- Coach squads, Product Owners, and stakeholders on SAFe principles, Agile practices, and continuous improvement mindset.
- Champion DevOps and continuous delivery practices — supporting squads in improving build, test, and deployment automation to accelerate feature delivery.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, transparency, and psychological safety across both squads — enabling high-performing, self-organising teams.
Stakeholder Management & Governance
- Act as the primary ART-level communication interface — providing regular, clear delivery status updates to programme managers, product leadership, and senior stakeholders.
- Manage relationships with Business Owners, Product Management, and key stakeholders — facilitating business engagement in PI Planning, System Demos, and governance forums.
- Contribute to portfolio-level planning — providing ART capacity, dependency, and risk inputs to support programme and portfolio prioritisation decisions.
- Support risk and compliance governance — ensuring ART delivery activities align to organisational delivery standards, change management processes, and regulatory requirements within a banking and capital markets environment.
- Maintain ART-level documentation — PI plans, programme boards, risk registers, and retrospective action logs.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of experience in Agile delivery roles — Scrum Master, RTE, or Agile Coach — with at least 2–3 years as a Release Train Engineer in a SAFe environment.
- Deep SAFe expertise — PI Planning facilitation, ART coordination, programme board management, and Inspect & Adapt — with proven ability to lead ARTs of 10–15+ people.
- Banking and capital markets domain experience — essential — understanding of financial services delivery constraints, regulatory governance, and capital markets technology programmes.
- Experience managing cross-team dependencies and delivery coordination across multiple squads in fast-paced programme delivery environments.
- Strong servant leadership and coaching skills — supporting Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and squad members in Agile best practices.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills — engaging senior business and technology stakeholders with clear, concise ART-level delivery reporting.
- Proficiency with Agile tooling — Jira, Confluence, Miro — for PI planning, programme board management, and delivery reporting.
- Strong facilitation skills — leading large-group PI Planning events, System Demos, and Inspect & Adapt workshops with energy, structure, and impact.
- Good understanding of DevOps and continuous delivery practices — supporting squads in improving automation and deployment frequency.
- Strong analytical mindset — interpreting ART delivery metrics and driving data-informed continuous improvement.
Nice to Have
- SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE) certification — SAFe 5 or SAFe 6.
- SAFe Programme Consultant (SPC) certification.
- Experience in capital markets technology programmes — trade reporting, regulatory platforms, market data, or trading systems delivery.
- Familiarity with LPM (Lean Portfolio Management) and portfolio-level Agile governance.
- Experience with scaled Agile tooling — Jira Align, Rally, or equivalent ART-level planning tools.
- Agile coaching certification — ICP-ACC or equivalent.
- Exposure to regulatory delivery programmes — MiFID II, EMIR, APRA, or equivalent financial services regulatory change.
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