Senior Platform Scrum Master / Release Train Engineer (RTE)

Position Title: Senior Platform Scrum Master / Release Train Engineer (RTE) – Data & Analytics Location: Houston, TX In-Office Requirement (4 days a week) No Remote-No Exceptions. Must start onsite from Day 1 and provide written confirmation for the same) 10+ years of professional experience in Agile delivery, Scrum Master, program delivery, or enterprise technology delivery roles.Demonstrated formal RTE experience or platform-level accountability for a large, multi-team Agile Release Train. Traditional team-level Scrum Master experience alone is insufficient.Certified Scrum Master certification required, with strong hands-on SAFe experience. SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE) certification is strongly preferred; candidates must disclose their exact SAFe certifications.Proven experience coordinating at least 10-12 or more Scrum Masters/Product Teams simultaneously, managing delivery across multiple products and workstreams.Demonstrated experience facilitating large-scale PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, ART Sync, PO Sync, System Demos, and Inspect & Adapt sessions.Experience engaging and aligning hundreds of stakeholders across technical teams, product organizations, architecture, infrastructure, business functions, and senior leadership.Proven examples of personally resolving critical delivery risks, cross-team dependencies, major impediments, and blockers requiring multi-team coordination or leadership intervention.Experience owning ART-level PI execution, PI objectives, dependencies, delivery metrics, risk management, and release coordination.Experience supporting Data & Analytics, Data Engineering, Cloud Data Platforms, Analytics Platforms, or comparable enterprise technology platforms.Strong working knowledge of data pipelines, databases, APIs, integrations, cloud services, and enterprise application ecosystems sufficient to coordinate technical dependencies.Experience coordinating across Cloud, Infrastructure, Networking, Security, DevOps, Architecture, Data, and Application teams.Strong proficiency with Azure DevOps, Jira, or comparable Agile delivery tools for tracking work, dependencies, risks, metrics, and reporting.Excellent large-group facilitation, executive communication, negotiation, conflict resolution, and stakeholder-management skills.Ability to challenge delivery assumptions, drive accountability, influence without direct authority, and deliver measurable improvements in execution and predictability.