Release Train Engineer

Post Date

Jun 13, 2025

Location

San Antonio,
Texas

ZIP/Postal Code

78240
US
Aug 13, 2025 Insight Global

Job Type

Contract

Category

Project Manager

Req #

SAT-788604

Pay Rate

$39 - $49 (hourly estimate)

Job Description

Insight Global is looking for an RTE in the San Antonio area. This person will be responsible to provide hands-on facilitation of major program ceremonies across multiple development teams; consults and coaches teams (including the Product Manager and Product Owner) to support a smooth transformation to Agile practices. Drive continuous improvement and facilitates communication across teams to proactively manage dependencies and remove impediments and establish standards for Agile processes and tools. Manage impediments to progress whether internal or organizational in nature. Lead efforts to resolve systemic impediments that continually block teams within their organization. Support and educates product owners, product managers and other program level personnel, especially with respect to refining and managing the product backlog and decision making. Ensure effective communication within or across Programs; schedules and facilitates cross-functional meetings, and ensures appropriate progress tools, information radiators, and reports effectively provide transparency on Programs/Programs progress/productivity. Act as Agile SME to teams, departmental teams, senior management, product owners, and management. Provide leadership for Scrum Master community of practice and mentors other Scrum Masters and Release Train Engineers. Perform risk, issue, and dependency management e for the program(s) and/or portfolio. Drive release management practices across team to ensure alignment to enterprise standards and leverages existing change management routines as needed. Provide agile leadership and training, continuously assesses the team's agile maturity and constantly raises the bar to improve the team's velocity. Serve an active member of the Agile Community of Practice that covers different functional areas and Agile Release Trains (ARTs), and successfully encourages participation, facilitation and subject matter delivery. Actively liaises with assigned professional coaches to actively conduct training sessions of value across the ARTs in the department. Resolve complex relationship conflicts among team members. Understand release-when ready, test-driven development, continuous integration, product demonstration and other technical engineering practices and guides Train on leveraging them. Adhere to Enterprise Project management Office (EPMO) processes, procedures, controls, standards, tools and templates (as required). Ensure risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

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Required Skills & Experience

Bachelors degree; OR 4 years of related experience (in addition to the minimum years of experience required) may be substituted in lieu of degree.
8 years of experience in process improvement, project management and/or program management, software engineer, or business/requirements analysis with at least 6 years as Scrum Master or Release Train Engineer or has development experience working in a similar role in a lean or Scrum environment.
Expert knowledge and experience with multiple agile delivery frameworks (e.g., Kanban, Scrum, XP, Lean, SAFe, DevOps).
Advanced knowledge of Agile Lifecycle Management (ALM) Tools (Jira, Rally, VersionOne, etc.).
Awareness and experience with widely successful Agile techniques: ATDD, TDD, BDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pair Programming, Automated Testing, Agile Gaming, User Story Mapping, etc.
Knowledge of compliance and risk management frameworks, including experience to identify and mitigate risks.
One or more Agile certification(s) such as: Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Agile Certified Professional (ACP), SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), SAFe Agilist (SA), SAFe Scrum Master or SAFe Advanced Scrum Master (SASM).

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

Knowledge of property and casualty insurance

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.