Sr Manager, Release Train Engineer Lead

Your Opportunity

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.

We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s).

We have an opportunity to be a Release Train Engineer (RTE) Lead on Client Reporting technology at Schwab which contains key platforms including Statement, Confirms, AutoComm, Forms, Distributive Communications, High Print Volume and Disclosure management.  This role has high visibility and is critical to ensuring the successful execution and planning for Schwab's flagship platforms.

The Release Train Engineer (RTE) is a servant leader who is accountable for the flow of value delivery through the program while ensuring alignment with adopted Scaled Agile concepts, company strategy, commitments, and goals. This role is responsible for facilitating program-level (a.k.a. Agile Release Train, or “ART”) events, ensuring resolution of impediments/issues/risks, and fostering program-level continuous improvement activities. The RTE is a critical link between multiple agile teams and the Portfolio-level; facilitating collaborative meetings by opening the flow of information to ensure all teams involved in the ART are focused on successful delivery and progress transparency.

An RTE is the glue that keeps the ART synchronized. They facilitate alignment across multiple teams and roles - from Scrum Masters to product managers to system architects.  

Responsibilities include:

• Facilitating PI Planning for 15+ scrum teams
• Promoting cross-team collaboration 
• Creating safe space during inspect & adapt workshops  
• Fostering teamwork ensures new ARTs are launched with a culture of trust, collaboration, and ownership of delivery outcomes.  
• Coaching on Scaled Agile practices 
• New tool adoption 
• Maximizing delivery 
• PI Planning Preparation – work with business, product, and technology leadership to ensure that the work that is prioritized for the teams aligns with the enterprise’s (and Schwab’s) strategic goals and that expected outcomes related to those priorities are defined. 
• PI Planning – helps ensure that the work the teams commit to aligns with the priorities set by leadership. Encouraging realistic planning and transparency around what can and cannot be achieved within the PI. Facilitating the resolution of any prioritization conflicts. 
• ART Sync – monitoring progress towards commitments, ensuring transparency around progress, scope changes and trade-offs, and assisting the teams in clearing risks and roadblocks through escalation. 
• ART Demo – facilitating team demos to stakeholders to ensure that what’s being delivered meets their expectations. 
• Own ART-level metrics including PI predictability, flow efficiency, and throughput
• Drive dependency management and value stream optimization across teams
• Align PI objectives with Portfolio OKRs and enterprise strategy
• Govern ART backlog health ensuring epics meet DoR/DoD and are execution-ready
• Establish ART-level reporting, dashboards, and executive communication
• Support Lean Portfolio Management including epic prioritization and funding alignment
• Lead Agile maturity assessments and continuous improvement initiatives
• Ensure compliance, audit readiness, and risk governance for regulated platforms

What you have

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of direct RTE Experience supporting a technology-related ART
• 10+ Years of either Project Manager and/or Scrum Master experience
• Strong experience working with Scaled Agile methodologies
• SPC and RTE certification from SAFe – required  
• Strong knowledge on Client Reporting applications and Dependency management
• Strong Program and portfolio management and Budget Management

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Master’s Degree or MBA