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# Release Train Engineer

- **Company:** Shrive Technologies Llc
- **Location:** Washington, DC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $107,900.0 - $195,050.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, JIRA, Microsoft Azure, Statistical Process Control (SPC)
- **Published:** July 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/us36e5ccc7f37ab5b031c3141d4b863950

## About the Role

* 5+ years in program/project delivery or Agile delivery leadership, with at least 2+ years as a Release Train Engineer or in an equivalent ART-facilitation role in a SAFe environment.
 * SAFe RTE certification (or SAFe SPC/Agilist) and demonstrated, hands-on experience facilitating PI Planning and the full set of ART events.
 * Project Management (PMI) certified desirable
 * Proven ability to manage cross-team dependencies, program risk, and impediments across multiple Agile teams.
 * Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with a track record of maintaining accurate, timely two-way reporting between delivery teams and a central program/governance function (e.g., a LACE or PMO).
 * Experience with Agile program management tooling (e.g., Azure DevOps, Jira/Jira Align, or equivalent) for tracking flow, metrics, and reporting.
 * Servant-leadership and coaching ability, with experience explaining and embedding Lean-Agile practices across technical and non-technical audiences.
 * Extremely strong communication skills, with a proven record of delivering high-impact presentations at the executive level.
 * Role model in organizing project management and operational activities, with a demonstrated ability to create best-practice frameworks that improve efficiency.

Desirable:

 * Experience operating within or alongside a Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) at enterprise scale.
 * Background in IT program management and portfolio-level reporting.
 * Familiarity with the World Bank Group / international organization delivery environment or comparable large, distributed enterprises.
 * Experience supporting Agile budgeting, capacity planning, and resource management., * Proven SAFe knowledge: SAFe RTE certification (or SAFe SPC/Agilist) with demonstrated, hands-on experience facilitating PI Planning and the full set of ART events.
 * Strong project management practices: a track record of standardizing project management practices, creating reusable project plan templates, and establishing best-practice frameworks that improve operational efficiency across teams.
 * Extremely good communicator: outstanding communication skills with a proven record of delivering high-impact presentations at the executive level.



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