The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways — from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community.
The Role
The driving force behind our success has always been our people. We foster a culture of engineering excellence, continuous improvement, and collaboration across product management, architecture, quality, and delivery teams. Our teams build and evolve large scale enterprise applications that support mission critical business capabilities. You will experience a strong emphasis on Agile, Lean, and SAFe principles, professional growth, and cross team collaboration.
We are seeking a highly experienced Technical Release Train Engineer (RTE) to lead Agile Release Trains (ARTs) in delivering high-quality software solutions. This role requires a strong foundation in software development (3+ years hands-on experience) combined with 3+ years of experience as a SAFe Release Train Engineer.
The RTE will serve as a servant leader, coach, and program-level facilitator who ensures alignment, execution, and continuous improvement across multiple agile teams. A deep understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) is essential to effectively guide teams, manage dependencies, and ensure predictable delivery of features and releases.
Your Impact
- Lead and facilitate Agile Release Train (ART) execution, including PI Planning, ART syncs, System Demos, and Inspect & Adapt events
- Drive alignment across teams to ensure execution adheres to SDLC principles, including design, development, testing, integration, and technical release readiness
- Identify, manage, and mitigate cross-team dependencies, risks, and impediments
- Partner with Product Management, System Architects, and Engineering teams to ensure smooth flow of features from concept through delivery
- Enable continuous improvement using metrics such as velocity, flow, predictability, and quality
- Foster a culture of built-in quality, DevOps adoption, and CI/CD practices
- Ensure proper implementation of Agile, SAFe, and SDLC governance practices across teams
- Coach Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and teams on Agile best practices and effective execution
- Drive transparency through reporting, dashboards, and program-level KPIs
- Support release planning, execution, and coordination across multiple teams and stakeholders.
What You'll Need
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or related field.
- 5+ years of overall experience
- 3+ years in software development roles (developer, lead, or architect)
- 3+ years as a SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE) or similar Agile leadership role
- Strong and practical understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), including requirements, design, development, testing, integration, and release management
- Proven experience leading large-scale Agile programs using SAFe framework
- Hands-on experience with Agile tools such as Azure DevOps (ADO), Jira, or similar
- Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and release management practices
- Ability to analyze and improve flow metrics, predictability, and delivery performance
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across business and engineering teams
- SAFe certifications (RTE) is a plus
- Experience in enterprise multi-ART environments is a plus
- Exposure to cloud and microservices is a plus
- Experience building ART dashboards and KPIs is a plus.
This role requires deep understanding of SDLC to ensure seamless flow from feature definition to deployment, alignment across development and QA, early risk identification, and continuous improvement in delivery predictability and quality.
AspenTech will employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1(including those with OPT or CPT) , H-1, H-2, L-1, B, J or TN, or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.
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