Release Train Engineer

Manulife is a leading international financial services provider helping people make decisions easier and lives better. Help shape the future you want to see and discover that better can take you anywhere you want to go. We are seeking a Release Train Engineer to be part of the Manulife team.

Position Responsibilities:

• Manages and optimizes the flow of work through the program and facilitates Agile Release Train synchronization.
• Organizes communicates and facilitates program-level events (e.g. PI planning readiness ART sync) across multiple teams.
• Aggregates product increment objectives into program increment objectives and assists with execution tracking and completion.
• Assists Product Manager(s) and other team members with economic decision-making.
• Advances tracks and resolves impediments and reports status at the program-level.
• Helps manage risks and dependencies across multiple Agile teams within the release train.
• Understands and communicates program-level resourcing requirements.
• Attends System and Solution Demos.
• Understands and operates within Agile Release Train budget.
• Measures and understands how to leverage team and program metrics (e.g. velocity) to drive continuous improvement.
• Coaches leaders teams and team members in SAFe.
• Focuses on team health and collaboration and promotes a culture of commitment focus openness respect and courage.
• Follows updates to the SAFe framework and incorporates them into ways of working.

Required Qualifications:

• 5 years RTE experience
• Strong grasp of Agile methods budgeting and management tools both generally and in the SAFe framework
• Experience with Confluence and Jira
• Experience tracking interpreting and actioning Agile metrics
• Able to coach others and facilitate events in a way that is focused on team growth
• Experience with dependency release and risk management
• Familiar with CI/CD methods DevSecOps and systems & solution architecture
• Understands methods for value realization
• Capable of supporting budgeting and resourcing decisions

Preferred Qualifications:

• Leads projects or work streams inde
• pendently and contributes to their planning
• May act as professional expertise information resource for colleagues in own area advising on a particular topic with a degree of authority
• Requires advanced problem-solving skills involving filtering interpretation and validation of dynamic information
• Works independently receives minimal guidance
• May coordinate resources for a small team and contribute to the effectiveness of their contributions to the broader area

When you join our team:

• Well empower you to learn and grow the career you want.
• Well recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.
• As part of our distributed team well support you in shaping the future you want to see.

About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. To learn more about us visit is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Manulife/John Hancock we embrace our diversity. We strive to attract develop and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and to foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals. We are committed to fair recruitment retention advancement and compensation and we administer all of our practices and programs without discrimination on the basis of race ancestry place of origin colour ethnic origin citizenship religion or religious beliefs creed sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions) sexual orientation genetic characteristics veteran status gender identity gender expression age marital status family status disability or any other ground protected by applicable law.

It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process. All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Manulife/John Hancock policies. To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process contact .

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If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location please contact for the salary range for your location. The actual salary will vary depending on local market conditions geography and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge skills qualifications experience and education/training. Employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance.

Manulife offers eligible employees a wide array of customizable benefits including health dental mental health vision short- and long-term disability life and AD&D insurance coverage adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits and employee/family assistance plans. We also offer eligible employees various retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources. Our generous paid time off program in Canada includes holidays vacation personal and sick days and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence. If you are applying for this role in the U.S. please contact for more information about U.S.-specific paid time off provisions.