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# Release Train Engineer

- **Company:** Kelly Services Inc.
- **Location:** Charlotte, NC, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $127,005.0 - $143,104.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, JIRA, Continuous Delivery, DevOps, Enterprise Content Management, Scrum Methodology, Systems Development Life Cycle, Release Management, Time Tracking Software
- **Published:** July 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/97F5FEE3EF584D368A7DCA0D5F743CBB/job/

## About the Role

* 4+ years of Practicing Agile Scrum Master experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
 * Experience working with Scrum and Kanban teams.
 * Strong SDLC and release management background within enterprise technology environments.
 * Demonstrated experience managing releases in regulated or risk?sensitive environments.
 * Proven Scrum Master experience supporting complex delivery, not just Agile ceremony facilitation.
 * CSM or PSM certification required.
 * Advanced proficiency with Jira for Agile delivery management, reporting, and forecasting.
 * Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.

Desired Skills

 * Agile Certifications (CSM, PSM, SAFe, etc.) preferred.
 * Knowledge and understanding of Definition of Done (DoD), Definition of Ready (DoR), and OKRs.

## Description

* Preparation and facilitation for BRP and I&A events
 * Orchestrate Post BRP activities to summarize the outcomes
 * Drive other Product specific planning activities such as Monthly Planning
 * Drive cross-functional collaboration.

Drive Execution

 * Drive Rhythms & Routines (as listed in the scaling events)
 * Manage progress towards committed delivery of the objectives
 * Promote continuous delivery and technical excellence including AI Tools adoption, DORA metrics, technology initiatives
 * Promote DevOps maturity and continuous delivery
 * Manage dependencies, impediments & risk across teams
 * Facilitate additional practices and collaboration to improve maturity of the execution (as required).

Flow optimization

 * Manage end to end feature backlog
 * Measure/Manage product area metrics to drive flow of value

Relentless Improvement

 * Strategize and drive relentless improvement across product area including but not limited to; Process, Toolsets, Metrics and Practices
 * Point of contact for the workstream implementation.

Sustained Coaching

 * Coach Product & Agile Transformation, SDLC, Time Tracking, ECM, TCM, Annual Planning and other organization guidance.
 * Coach roles & responsibilities according to the established POM, Agile Playbook, EFT, ERFT, RDL guidelines.

Success Metrics

 * Leverage or establish dashboards to drive execution within the established guarding rails to improve predictability.
 * Measures to indicate the delivery of the product roadmap such as Objectives predictability, CI/CO achievement etc.


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