Release Train Engineer

We are seeking a Release Train Engineer for a customer project in Gothenburg.

Background

The Release Train Engineer (RTE) is a servant leader and coach for the Agile Release Train (ART). The RTE’s major responsibilities are to facilitate the ART events and processes and assist the teams in delivering value. RTEs communicate with stakeholders, escalate impediments, help manage risk, and drive relentless improvement.

Key responsibilities

- Planning release windows and the overall release lifecycle
- Coordinate and ensure the agile events (PI planning, Review, Demo, Retrospective)
- Managing risks that may affect release scope
- Manage and coordinate dependencies and releases between different teams
- First escalation point for the development teams
- Work with the teams and understand their risks and weakness
- Support the teams to understand their needs and plans.
- Understand the overall picture on how the team is in relation to the release with both technical challenges and test, Q&A need for the release.
- Since this is a central role it is important to be part of building the culture our client want to build with personal engagement and energy pared with high level of delivery.


Essential (must have) skills, knowledge and experience

- English language proficiency
- SAFe experience
- Previous experience as an RTE
- Thorough understanding of Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration (CD/CI) pipelines
- Solid delivery experience in software development


Nice to have skills, knowledge and experience

- Swedish language skills
- SAFe RTE certification


Personal attributes

- Flexible and able to balance between internal and customer interests
- Good level of positive energy


Additional information

Start: ASAP

Duration: 6 months

Workload: 100%

Salary: Dependent on experience

We also accept sub-contractors for this role. In such case please state your all-inclusive rate when applying.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Before you apply

We want to be able to make a fair assessment and it is therefore important that you create a good statement on a few sentences about how you will succeed in the role and why we should choose you.

Preferably write a short description of how you meet each of the specific requirements in the job description. Refer to previous assignments and employments, education and personal qualities.

We prefer detailed CVs in Word or Pages format with plenty of information and details. Avoid PDFs because in many cases they are not fully searchable. Describe relevant previous projects and assignments in detail, what the task was, what the team was, how you solved it and what tools you used.

Due to the number of applications received, we are unable to provide individual feedback.

You must be a Swedish, Nordic, EU, EEA or Swiss citizen or otherwise have a right to work in Sweden.