Senior Release Train Engineer (RTE) - Peraton
Huntsville, AL
About the Job
Responsibilities
- Lead and guide multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs) in accordance with SAFe principles, ensuring alignment across teams and optimizing the flow of value.
- Serve as a servant leader and coach, fostering a culture of trust, transparency, and continuous improvement across the ART.
- Facilitate key ART-level events, including PI Planning, Inspect & Adapt, ART Sync, and Scrum of Scrums.
- Collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders—including product and solution management, architects, and engineers—to ensure strategic and execution alignment.
- Manage risks, remove impediments, and track metrics to enhance workflow efficiency and minimize waste.
- Coach leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters in Lean-Agile practices, reinforcing a growth mindset.
- Drive continuous improvement in PI Planning and other SAFe events, leveraging insights and feedback.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- 8 years of experience of real-world Agile coaching experience as a scrum master, agile coach, or release train engineer, guiding software product teams, divisions, or organizations through the varied challenges of adopting and scaling agility within an organization.software engineering, program design and implementation, configuration management, or maintenance, integration or testing, and information system engineering.
- Two years experience as a Release Train Engineer (RTE).
- Deep understanding of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) principles and practices.
- Proven ability to coach and mentor leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters.
- Experience in leading and managing multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs) simultaneously.
- At least one SAFe certification. Scrum Master/ SAFe Practice Consultant 6.0 preferred.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in Jira administration preferred.
- Certifications highly desirable: SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE), SAFe Scrum Master, SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager.
Peraton Overview
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.
