• Drive Effective Delivery: Lead the Agile Release Train (ART) to ensure alignment, effective planning, and on-time delivery of high-quality products. Balance execution with organizational goals, driving teams to meet business objectives.
• Navigate Constraints: Identify and address organizational challenges that hinder team performance. Collaborate with leadership to remove roadblocks and foster an environment of continuous improvement.
• Cultivate Agile Mindset: Coach teams to embrace change and agile principles, addressing resistance to ensure continuous improvement and alignment with agile practices.
• Execution & Accountability: Hold teams accountable while providing support for successful delivery. Facilitate decentralized decision-making aligned with business goals.
• Strategic Leadership: Apply deep agile knowledge to make informed decisions, prioritize high-impact work, and guide the ART toward long-term success.
• Facilitate Communication: Act as the central communication hub across the ART, ensuring transparency and alignment among stakeholders through effective program-level ceremonies.
• Performance & Feedback: Track and analyze key performance indicators, providing data-driven insights to guide decision-making and continuous improvement. Implement feedback mechanisms to promote self-assessment and growth.
• Oversee Quality & DevOps: Collaborate with QA and DevOps teams to integrate and optimize testing, deployment, and automation processes, ensuring high standards are maintained across the development lifecycle.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Foster collaboration between QA, DevOps, and development teams, promoting shared responsibility for quality and operational excellence.
• Agile Coaching & Leadership Development: Mentor teams, Product Owners, and leadership, helping them refine agile practices and navigate cultural and operational shifts to achieve greater business agility.
Qualifications:
• Proven experience as a Release Train Engineer (RTE) or similar leadership role within an agile organization.
• Strong operational leadership skills with a track record of successful delivery in complex environments.
• Deep understanding of agile principles with the ability to apply them pragmatically.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, capable of influencing stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience navigating organizational constraints and driving cultural change to support agile practices.
• Ability to make tough decisions, prioritize effectively, and balance competing demands.
• Strong servant leadership mindset, empowering teams while maintaining authority, accountability, and centralized decision-making.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role
5 years of experience in Agile operation leadership and SAFe Agile.

Preference to RTE or SPC certified.

Characteristics:

• Able to demonstrate a servant leadership style while leading and driving delivery
• Enterprise-level experience necessary
• Strong communication and facilitation skills
• Able to deftly drive agile delivery despite considerable constraints and obstacles.
• Ability to create an environment of trust through transparency
• Create an environment of mutual influence.
• Ability to collaborate across a diverse set of stakeholders
• Support the team's commitments
• Teach and mentor train members in understanding agile principles and processes

Desired qualifications/non-essential skills required

• Five or more years leading agile operations of 50 or more members
• Scaled Agile Consultant (SPC5 or 6) or Scaled Agile Release Train Engineer (RTE) certification preferred
• Experience with both product start-up and mature product development preferred

CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors not limited to: skill set level; experience and training; and licensure and certifications. CGI typically does not hire individuals at or near the top of the range for their role. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $96,500 - 235,200.

At CGI we call our professionals "members" to reinforce that all who join our team are, as owners, empowered to participate in the challenges and rewards that come from building a world-class company. CGI's benefits include:
• Competitive base salaries
• Eligibility to participate in an attractive Share Purchase Plan (SPP) in which the company matches dollar-for-dollar contributions made by eligible employees, up to a maximum, for their job category
• 401(k) Plan and Profit Participation for eligible members
• Generous holidays, vacation, and sick leave plans
• Comprehensive insurance plans that include, among other benefits, medical, dental, vision, life, disability, out-of-county emergency coverage in all countries of employment;
• Back-up child care, Pet insurance, a Member Assistance Program, a 529 college savings program, a personal financial management tool, lifestyle management programs and more

Together, as owners, let's turn meaningful insights into action.

Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you'll reach your full potential because...

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That's why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company's strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You'll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You'll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You'll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

Come join our team-one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.

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