Release Train Engineer

Origence is always looking for diverse, talented people to join our exceptional team. Current job opportunities are posted here as they become available.

With 30 years at the forefront of fintech innovation, we specialize in SaaS lending solutions that lead the industry. Our core mission is customer‑centric, focusing on empowering Credit Unions across the United States with the tools to offer accessible, competitive lending services. We're deeply committed to enhancing the financial ecosystem for a broad network of credit unions, members and auto dealers.

We invest in our greatest assets, our employees, and foster a culture of innovation and ownership through freedom and responsibility. We celebrate fiscal accountability, operational rigor and efficiency to create a sustainably healthy and robust business for the long term.

We are currently in the implementation phase of our SAFe transformation journey, and we are looking for an experienced SAFe® Release Train Engineer (RTE) to join us and help our Agile teams achieve excellence. Our Release Train Engineers will be servant leaders and coaches for the Agile Release Train (ART) and will be responsible for facilitating the ART events and processes while assisting the teams in delivering value.

Additionally, the RTE will provide guidance and help educate the Agile Release Train in Lean, Kanban, and Scaled Agile framework (SAFe). The RTE will (1) communicate with stakeholders (2) elevate impediments to leadership, the solution train or portfolio (3) help manage risk (4) help ensure value delivery (5) drive relentless improvement.

• Act as a servant‑leader, providing coaching and guidance to teams, ARTs, and stakeholders on agile practices, ceremonies, principles, and mindsets.
• Embrace Lean‑Agile practices and empower others, encourage and influence the Solution Train and ARTs in a way that helps them work together to deliver excellence.
• Build a trusting, safe environment within the Agile Release Train / Agile Teams that facilitates positive team health, where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged.
• Help manage, elevate, track, and work to help resolve risks, dependencies, impediments, and bottlenecks to ensure goals are met.
• Optimize the flow of value through the ART.
• Provide support and education for improving estimates and PI Objectives during PI Planning.
• Encourage collaboration among the various teams within the ART.
• Nurture Communities of Practice (CoPs) as well as the use of built‑in quality practices, coach weekly Lean‑Agile coffee meeting.
• Conduct Agile Product Delivery (APD) assessments and ensure completion of Team and Technical Agility (TTA) assessments by teams.
• Serve as a back up to other Origence Release Train Engineers (RTE) when necessary, facilitating syncs, backlog refinements, demos and PI planning events.
• Must be able to travel 10% of the time.

• Facilitate the Agile Release Train events and processes, as well as synchronization meetings as needed.
• Facilitate ART level PI Planning events.
• Summarize Team PI objectives into Program PI objectives and publish that information to provide transparency and visibility.
• Facilitate System Demos.
• Facilitate ‘Inspect and Adapt’ workshops at the end of each PI and create retrospective improvement roadmaps by analyzing activities and actions previously performed in the ART to find ways to encourage and drive continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with the Lean Agile Center of Excellence (LACE), Solution/Product Management, STE, Product Owners, Scrum Masters and other stakeholders to guarantee the alignment of strategy and execution and achieve operational excellence.
• Coordinate and/or facilitate workshops and trainings as necessary to provide training/education to teams in the ART (i.e., user story writing workshops, Definition of Done workshops, etc.).
• Develop, regularly monitor, analyze, and report on metrics pertaining to the ART and the individual teams within the ARTs.
• Assist in tracking the execution of capabilities and features.
• Communicate program…