Release Train Engineer

Release Train Engineer (SAFe) – Automotive

About the role

Our client, a company within the automotive industry, is looking for an experienced Release Train Engineer to lead and coordinate a large-scale Agile Release Train in a complex development environment. As servant leader and facilitator, you will ensure collaboration, alignment and delivery across multiple cross-functional teams, stakeholders and technical domains, and help create predictability, transparency and continuous improvement throughout the development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate PI Planning, Inspect & Adapt workshops, ART Syncs and other SAFe ceremonies

• Coordinate dependencies, risks and impediments across teams

• Work closely with Product Management, Product Owners, System Architects, Engineering Managers and business stakeholders to connect strategic objectives with execution

• Coach teams and stakeholders in Lean-Agile practices

• Support the achievement of Program Increment objectives and drive continuous improvement across the ART

• Monitor and improve performance through metrics on predictability, flow, quality and lead time

• Foster an environment where engineering, product and business functions collaborate effectively

Required skills and experience

• Proven experience as a Release Train Engineer, Senior Scrum Master, Agile Coach or Program Manager

• Strong knowledge of SAFe, Lean-Agile principles and large-scale agile delivery

• Background from automotive, manufacturing, embedded software or other complex engineering environments

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills

• Experience facilitating large planning events and coordinating multiple development teams

• Strong leadership skills with a servant leadership mindset

• SAFe RTE certification (highly desirable)

Meriting experience

• Automotive R&D, connected vehicles, embedded systems, digital products or software-intensive product development

• Experience with Jira, Azure DevOps, Kendis, Miro or similar collaboration and planning tools

• Experience in global and distributed development organizations

• Experience from transformation initiatives within large-scale Agile frameworks