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Job Summary:
Motion is seeking a Release Train Engineer (RTE) who will act as the chief facilitator and servant leader for the Agile Release Train (ART). The RTE will be responsible for managing ART-level events, driving value across teams, and coaching stakeholders in Lean-Agile practices.
Responsibilities:
• Facilitates and continuously improves the ART's core events: PI Planning, ART Sync (Scrum of Scrums and Product Owner Sync), the program-level System Demo, and the Inspect & Adapt workshop.
• Establishes and communicates the annual calendar of Iterations and Program Increments (PIs); manages the ART cadence and Innovation & Planning (IP) periods.
• Drives the flow of value through the ART; establishes and maintains the ART/program Kanban system (stages, WIP policies, and supporting tooling), and facilitates the identification, ROAMing, and resolution of cross-team risks and dependencies.
• Tracks, escalates, and removes program-level impediments that span multiple teams.
• Owns ART delivery metrics — including PI predictability, objective scoring, and flow/quality measures — and reports them to leadership to support decision-making.
• Ensures train-wide visibility of critical data including dependencies, risks, impediments, Inspect & Adapt actions, and PI metrics as a single source of truth for the ART and its stakeholders.
• Coaches Scrum Masters, Agile teams, Product Owners, and stakeholders in SAFe and Lean-Agile principles; matures the train's delivery discipline, estimation normalization, and planning quality.
• Coaches Business Owners, System Architects, and Product Management in Lean-Agile practice, fostering collaboration across these roles and the teams.
• Builds and sustains cross-team Communities of Practice to share knowledge and mature Agile capability across the ART.
• Aggregates and normalizes estimates and forecasts across teams to support reliable PI commitments.
• Partners with Product Management and Business Owners on prioritization, operating within Lean budgets and guardrails to align team execution to planned program and value-stream intent.
• Fosters an environment of transparency, relentless improvement, and continuous learning across the ART.
• Maintains ART tooling and reporting of record (e.g., Azure DevOps), ensuring data integrity for objectives, metrics, and team health.
• Adapts ART and Scrum practices using independent judgment to improve quality, predictability, and timeliness.
• Communicates program status, risks, and outcomes to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Typically requires a bachelor's degree in a related field and eight (8) or more years of related Agile delivery experience, including demonstrated experience facilitating a scaled Agile framework (SAFe) at the program/ART level or an equivalent combination.
• Three (3) or more years in a Release Train Engineer or equivalent ART-facilitation role is required, including experience facilitating PI Planning and leading other Scrum Masters (e.g., Scrum of Scrums).
• In-depth knowledge of SAFe and Agile Release Trains (ART), including ART events, roles, and cadence.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate large, cross-team events (e.g., PI Planning) and to lead and coach other Scrum Masters.
• Strong servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, and continual-improvement skills at scale.
• Skilled in cross-team dependency and risk management, and in driving the flow of value across multiple teams.
• Proficiency with program-level metrics and reporting (e.g., predictability, flow/DORA measures) and the tooling that supports them (e.g., Azure DevOps).
• Working knowledge of Lean economics and prioritization techniques.
• Excellent communication and coordination skills across cross-functional teams; able to translate technical information for non-technical and executive audiences.
• Strong relationship-building, collaboration, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Expert written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
• You must be eligible to work in the US without Visa Sponsorship.
Preferred:
• SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM)
Company:
Motion serves the industrial marketplace with MRO (maintenance, repair, and operation) replacement parts and services through a network of over 600 locations across North America. Founded in 1931, the company is headquartered in Port Arthur, USA, with a team of 5001-10000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.