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These capabilities support payment acceptance, international payments, remittance services and business operations through connected technology ecosystems.\n\nThe successful candidate will bridge product strategy and delivery execution, ensuring that multiple Agile teams work towards common objectives and deliver measurable business value. This includes facilitating Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) practices, coordinating dependencies, managing risks, resolving delivery obstacles and improving delivery performance.\n\nThe RTE will work closely with Product Management, Architecture, Engineering, Operations, Design, market stakeholders and external delivery partners to maintain alignment between customer needs, technical quality and business priorities.\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n1. Agile Leadership and Team Enablement\n\nCreate an environment that encourages collaboration, transparency, trust and shared accountability across delivery teams and stakeholders.\n\nCoach teams and leaders in servant leadership principles, enabling teams to take ownership of challenges and develop effective solutions.\n\nEncourage collaboration between Product Management, System Architects, engineering teams and other business stakeholders.\n\nApply systems thinking to address organisational and delivery challenges.\n\nReinforce team commitments, support team development and promote constructive engagement.\n\nIdentify and remove delivery impediments, escalating issues that require management intervention.\n\nKeep customer needs and business value central to delivery decisions.\n\n2. Strategic Alignment and Delivery Governance\n\nTranslate the product roadmap and strategic priorities into achievable delivery plans.\n\nWork with Lean Portfolio Management, Product Management and Architecture to maintain alignment between business objectives and technology execution.\n\nApply Lean Budgeting principles and operate within established governance requirements.\n\nIdentify and manage cross-team dependencies, competing priorities, resource limitations and delivery trade-offs.\n\nMonitor delivery against agreed scope, timelines, costs and governance expectations.\n\nEscalate significant changes that require product, financial or executive approval.\n\n3. Delivery Flow and Operational Effectiveness\n\nImprove the movement of value from planning through development, release and deployment.\n\nEncourage the adoption of DevSecOps practices and Release-on-Demand capabilities.\n\nIdentify delivery constraints and implement measures to improve throughput and predictability.\n\nContribute to resource planning and allocation across the Agile Release Train (ART).\n\nOversee the identification, assessment and mitigation of delivery risks.\n\nCoordinate delivery considerations relating to release schedules, certification activities, hardware lead times and market deployments.\n\n4. Program Increment Planning\n\nCoordinate readiness activities for Program Increment (PI) Planning, supported by effective Continuous Exploration practices.\n\nFacilitate feature and capability estimation to support realistic delivery commitments.\n\nPlan and facilitate PI Planning sessions, ensuring alignment across participating teams.\n\nConsolidate individual Team PI Objectives into overall Program PI Objectives.\n\nCoordinate resource requirements across the ART, including external suppliers, contractors and delivery partners.\n\nSupport value-based prioritisation and economically informed planning decisions.\n\n5. Program Execution and Release Coordination\n\nTrack the progress of features and capabilities across multiple Agile teams.\n\nMaintain visibility of dependencies, delivery forecasts, risks and potential delays.\n\nFacilitate the resolution and escalation of blockers and cross-team impediments.\n\nOrganise and facilitate ART Syncs, System Demos and Inspect & Adapt workshops.\n\nCoordinate delivery activities involving vendors, partners and other external stakeholders.\n\nProduce delivery reports and analysis to support effective planning and decision-making.\n\nOversee the coordination of pilots, phased rollouts, production releases and post-implementation stabilisation.\n\nProvide management-level reporting on delivery progress, key risks, forecasts and corrective action plans.\n\n6. 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Continuous Improvement and Delivery Excellence\n\nLead Inspect & Adapt sessions and facilitate ongoing improvements across the ART.\n\nEvaluate Agile maturity and identify opportunities to strengthen delivery practices.\n\nEncourage Communities of Practice and the application of Built-In Quality principles.\n\nCollaborate with the Value Management Office to enhance execution effectiveness and operational performance.\n\nIncorporate lessons from production incidents, customer feedback and market deployments into future planning and delivery cycles.\n\n Desired Skills: \n SAFe Agile Delivery & Release Train Management\n Program Increment (PI) Planning & Execution\n Stakeholder\n Vendor & Cross-Team Dependency Management\n Digital Payments & Merchant Technology Solutions\n Risk Management\n Impediment Resolution & Continuous","description_format":"text","description_chars":5844,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-03T03:52:00Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":45,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.498,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":11,"expected_fill_days":25,"reasons":["seen:11","agency","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-11-09T06:03:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/paracon-release-train-engineer-merchant-delivery-cpt","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/paracon-release-train-engineer-merchant-delivery-cpt.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-10T02:21:24Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":5493,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-11T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1448115},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1448115"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fparacon-release-train-engineer-merchant-delivery-cpt"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fparacon-release-train-engineer-merchant-delivery-cpt"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fparacon-release-train-engineer-merchant-delivery-cpt"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/paracon-release-train-engineer-merchant-delivery-cpt\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fparacon-release-train-engineer-merchant-delivery-cpt"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3661388}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"paracon.ca","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3661388},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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