Release Train Engineer

At NTT DATA, we know that with the right people on board, anything is possible. The quality, integrity, and commitment of our employees have been key factors in our company's growth and market presence. By hiring the best people and helping them grow both professionally and personally, we ensure a bright future for NTT DATA and for the people who work here.

For more than 25 years, NTT DATA Services have focused on impacting the core of your business operations with industry-leading outsourcing services and automation. With our industry-specific platforms, we deliver continuous value addition, and innovation that will improve your business outcomes. Outsourcing is not just a method of gaining a one-time cost advantage, but an effective strategy for gaining and maintaining competitive advantages when executed as part of an overall sourcing strategy.

NTT DATA Services currently seeks a ITSS-Release Train Engineer to join our team.

Enterprise Information Protection (EIP) organization is seeking an experienced, results-driven Release Train Engineer (RTE) to launch and lead a new Agile Release Train (ART) within our cyber security portfolio. This ART delivers complex, business-critical cybersecurity capabilities in a highly dynamic environment, requiring advanced SAFe expertise, executive presence, and the ability to drive clarity from top-level priorities down to actionable Features. This contractor role offers the opportunity to work alongside engaged leadership and have a direct impact on value delivery and continuous improvement.

This role requires a proactive, executive-oriented leader capable of navigating complexity and driving outcomes.

• Serve as the ART conductor, facilitating and coaching the execution of all SAFe ceremonies and practices, and ensuring events are optimized for speed and value.
• Develop and execute plan to launch the new ART.
• Coach teams new to Agile delivery in fundamentals of Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe principles and practices.
• Lead readiness for PI Planning, driving the development of a clear Vision, Roadmap, and Backlogs; organize and facilitate PI Planning, and manage execution of commitments transparently.
• Actively coach, mentor, and influence cyber teams, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and business partners in Lean-Agile principles, Feature prioritization, and backlog refinement, fostering a culture of accountability, adaptability, and collaboration.
• Refine and improve value streams, helping teams address and remediate dependencies and barriers, and own improvement actions from Inspect & Adapt and Problem-Solving events.
• Create collaborative environments that enable alignment across program, portfolio, technical, and business teams.
• Orchestrate ART-level processes and coordinate execution across multiple Scrum and Product teams, ensuring delivery of quality and business value.
• Ensure ART readiness for System Demos and Inspect & Adapt sessions, and coordinate with external dependent teams.
• Collect and leverage ART metrics to demonstrate team capacity, velocity, predictability, and maturity; provide regular executive-level updates on progress and priorities.
• Foster a relentless improvement mindset via Inspect & Adapt workshops, Communities of Practice, and engineering quality practices.
• Support the ongoing evolution and adoption of SAFe practices within EIP and the broader organization.

• Minimum 5 years' experience as a Release Train Engineer (RTE) leading large-scale, technically complex ARTs.
• At least 7 years working with Agile frameworks in high-demand environments, including experience in hybrid models (Scrum, Kanban, project/program management).
• Demonstrated success launching new ARTs and transforming teams from legacy ways of working to leveraging agile frameworks for delivery.
• Demonstrated success coaching and mentoring teams and leaders in Lean-Agile practices.
• Proven ability to identify and resolve impediments at scale.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; adept at presenting to executive leadership.
• Advanced facilitation, influencing, and relationship management skills.
• Validated Agile certifications (e.g., Certified Scrum Master (CSM), IC Agile Team Facilitator (ATF), SAFe Release Train Engineer).
• Strong proficiency in Agile lifecycle management tools; preference for Azure Dev Ops (ADO) and experience with portfolio tools such as Jira Align.

• Bachelor's degree.
• Experience working with cyber security teams, particularly in product or application security.
• Experience with both development and non-development Scrum/Kanban teams.
• Advanced certifications (e.g., Certified Scrum Professional, SAFe Practice Consultant).

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