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# Release Train Engineer

- **Company:** ASCENT SERVICES GROUP LLC
- **Location:** Leawood, KS, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $97,200.0 - $139,040.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Scrum Methodology, Scaled Agile Framework, Software Engineering
- **Published:** October 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jofdav.com/jobs/60205850-release-train-engineer

## About the Role

* High school diploma or GED required. Bachelor's degree in software engineering or other technology-related field or equivalent work experience preferred.
 * 3+ years of experience working in an Agile IT or Enterprise Environment
 * 3+ years of experience managing IT programs
 * Direct experience working as an RTE
 * Ability to collaborate cross-functionally with both technical and non-technical partners
 * Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
 * Experience implementing SAFe or a similar Agile scaling framework preferred

 * SAFe certification a plus
 * Organizational Change Management experience preferred
 * Prior experience with higher education and/or fields of healthcare preferred

## Description

The Release Train Engineer (RTE) will facilitate the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Agile Release Train (ART) processes and program execution, escalate impediments, manage risk, and help drive program-level continuous improvement. The RTE will be responsible for facilitating program level work within the SAFe framework and coordinating with a number of teams across a sub-segment of Ascend's Healthcare category. Leawood, Kansas/hybrid office preferred., * Facilitate customer-focused delivery of products across technical teams

 * Lead and facilitate teams on the ART through development and delivery
 * Plan and facilitate all aspects of Planning Increment activities
 * Facilitate the Sync meetings and facilitate/coach at the Program level
 * Provide guidance in Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe and lead Agile delivery teams to deliver value consistently
 * Support ART teams with ART Launch and Agile transformations
 * Serve as an expert on Agile software principles to other team members
 * Engage directly with stakeholders to define mission value, prioritize work, and build intellectual capital in Agile techniques
 * Collaborate with communities of practice, develop, and conduct Agile-oriented training, and identify and deploy key metrics to enable continuous improvement
 * Support scrum ceremonies for the team where needed (Planning, Retrospective, Refinement & Review/Demo)
 * Facilitate impediment resolution in a timely, cost-effective manner; act as a conduit to other teams and lines of business stakeholders
 * Track and produce key metrics (e.g., feature cycle time, feature say/do, burn-down, burn-up charts, etc.)
 * Manage cross-ART planning and dependencies as needed