Release Train Engineer

Job Description About the Role: 11 The Team: The S&P Global Commodity Insights team seeks to accelerate transformation from product to platform-centric software engineering practices in an Agile development methodology, specifically within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). This person will play a pivotal role in optimizing the flow of value across an entire Agile Release Train (ART). The Impact: This role has a broader context of major strategic initiatives to extend our market leadership, enhance customer experience, and implement next-generation software technology. You will be responsible for orchestrating value delivery across multiple Scrum/Agile teams, ensuring alignment and execution of large-scale, strategic programs. In short, it represents an exciting and visible opportunity to join our team during a dynamic period of fundamental organizational and operational changes. What's in it for you: Great Place to Work, Good Learning Curve, Excellent Work Culture, and Motivates you to Get Stuff Done. Responsibilities: - Program Execution and Facilitation: Lead and facilitate the Agile Release Train (ART) events, including PI Planning, Inspect & Adapt (I&A) Workshops, Scrum of Scrums, and the ART Sync. - Coaching and Mentoring: Coach ART leaders, Scrum Masters, and teams in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets. Drive the overall adoption and improvement of SAFe within the train. - Flow Optimization: Establish and communicate the annual calendars for Iterations and Program Increments (PIs). Work with Product and Solution Management, and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment. - Risk and Dependency Management: Manage and escalate impediments, risks, and dependencies for the ART. Coordinate with other ARTs and shared services. - Reporting and Transparency: Ensure clear, objective reporting on PI execution status, feature delivery, and system predictability to stakeholders, including executive leadership. - Budgeting and Capacity: Assist with budgeting and resource capacity planning for the ART. - Relentless Improvement: Foster a culture of continuous improvement within the ART, driving the outcomes of the I&A event and ensuring improvement items are owned and executed. - Change Agent: Act as a servant leader and change agent, fostering a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised and resolved without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged. What are we Looking For Basic Qualifications - The candidate must have: - Certifications: Current SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE) certification preferable - Experience: - 8+ years of experience playing a Scrum Master role for a software development team diligently applying Scrum principles. - 2+ years of direct experience as a Release Train Engineer (RTE), successfully launching and running at least three or more Program Increments (PIs) in a SAFe environment. - SAFe Mastery: Deep, practical capability in applying and tailoring the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) to optimize value delivery at the program level. - Tooling: Expert-level experience with commonly used tools for managing an ART, such as Azure DevOps, Rally, or Jira Align, including configuring boards and generating program-level metrics. - Communication & Conflict: Excellent oral and written communication skills, with a proven ability to facilitate discussions and resolve conflict at the program and stakeholder level. - Servant Leadership: Demonstrates strong servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, and continual improvement skills. Preferred Qualifications - The candidate could have: - Advanced Certifications: SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) or other advanced SAFe certifications (e.g., SAFe Advanced Scrum Master (SASM)). - Technical Knowledge: Knowledge and/or experience with DevOps practices, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), and Lean-Agile Budgeting. - Other Agile Approaches: Knowledge of other scaling models or Agile approaches: LeSS, Nexus, Kanban, XP, etc. - Domain Expertise: Previous experience in the financial services or commodities/energy sector. S&P Global Energy is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global enables businesses, governments, and individuals with trusted data, expertise, and technology to make decisions with conviction. We are Advancing Essential Intelligence through world-leading benchmarks, data, and insights that customers need in order to plan confidently, act decisively, and thrive economically in a rapidly changing global landscape. Learn more at. What's In It For You Our Mission: Advancing Essential Intelligence. Our People: We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide-so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We're committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference. 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