Director, Release Train Engineer, Platform Delivery
Release Train Engineer - BA07CE
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The Director, Release Train Engineer – Platform Delivery leads scaled Agile execution across The Hartford ’s shared platform organization supporting API Platform Modernization and Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) . The role connects strategy to execution by translating platform roadmpas, capacity, dependencies, and architecture runway into actionable PI plans with measurable business and technology outcomes.
Reporting to the Platform Delivery Leader, this role drives PI planning, delivery transparency, dependency management, risk escalation, ART health, and continuous improvement while coaching a small team of RTEs/Scrum Masters.
This role is recognized as an Agile role model and thought leader who influences senior leadership, partners with business to advance value-delivery strategy, and helps the ART and broader organization move from doing Agile to being Agile and delivering predictable platform outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
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Lead RTE execution across multiple ARTs and value streams supporting API Platform Modernization and IDP delivery.
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Facilitate PI Planning, ART Sync, Scrum of Scrums, PO Sync, System Demos, Inspect & Adapt, and problem-solving sessions while reinforcing flow of work, feedback loops, open dialogue, and partner engagement.
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Translate roadmaps, capacity, dependencies, architecture runway, and stakeholder commitments into clear PI plans and measurable objectives.
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Champion Lean-Agile ways of working by reinforcing transparency, flow metrics, feedback loops, analytical problem solving, innovation, experimentation, dependency visibility, decision clarity, and continuous improvement.
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Partner with API, IDP, architecture, engineering, application, product, operations, security and business leaders to enable to align execution to modernization priorities.
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Enable cloud-native delivery, automation, developer experience, IDP capability growth, downstream integration, and operational readiness.
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Embed security, compliance, resiliency, auditability, quality, observability, and supportability into delivery plans.
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Drive change across and beyond the ART by influencing senior leaders, aligning ART execution to business outcomes, and advancing value-stream priorities, platform roadmaps, stakeholder commitments, and adoption goals.
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Deliver clear communications on ART health, PI predictability, flow metrics, risks, dependencies, milestones, decisions, and trade-offs to support proactive decision making and negotiation.
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Support investment discipline through forecasting, capacity planning, vendor input, and cost-aware execution.
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Ensure execution plans address compliance, audit, SOX, disaster recovery, resiliency, security, and production readiness needs.
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Surface and escalate risks, impediments, dependencies, and decisions that affect delivery, readiness, or adoption.
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Coordinate release readiness, cutover planning, supportability, and post-release learning across platform initiatives.
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Lead, coach, and develop RTEs, Scrum Masters, and delivery execution talent, while elevating the ART through proactive growth opportunities, cross-functionality, experimentation, and continuous learning.
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Cultivate a culture of servant leadership, accountability, transparency, Agile maturity, critical thinking, conflict resolution, engineering discipline, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
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Support performance management, talent growth, staffing input, succession planning, and consistent delivery practices.
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Coordinate delivery across onshore, offshore, and vendor teams, integrating commitments, dependencies, staffing, quality expectations, and milestones into ART