Release Train Engineer – Healthcare

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Ohio.

📋 Description

• Act as the primary Retail Value Stream Release Train Engineer and chief facilitator for various teams.

• Develop and enhance operating cadences at the value stream and ART levels.

• Facilitate PI Planning, ART Sync meetings, Scrum of Scrums, Product Owner Syncs, System Demos, Inspect & Adapt workshops, and PI execution reviews.

• Spearhead large-scale, cross-functional planning and execution events.

• Prepare teams and leaders for PI Planning by aligning priorities, capacity, dependencies, risks, objectives, and backlog readiness.

• Oversee the creation of Program Boards, confidence voting, risk ROAMing, and the documentation of committed and stretch PI objectives.

• Manage visibility of cross-team dependencies, risks, blockers, and impediments.

• Identify systemic bottlenecks, mediate conflicts between teams, and escalate unresolved issues.

• Monitor performance, flow metrics, ART health, and delivery results.

• Utilize AI-enabled analytics and dashboards to uncover patterns, bottlenecks, and risks.

• Lead Inspect & Adapt workshops, retrospectives, problem-solving sessions, and maintain improvement backlogs.

• Coach teams and leaders on Lean-Agile principles, decentralized decision-making, and system-level thinking.

• Coordinate alignment among Product Management, Technology, User Experience, Data, portfolio partners, and business leadership.

• Communicate delivery risks, dependencies, decisions, and opportunities for improvement.

• Utilize AI-assisted tools for facilitation, scenario modeling, dependency management, predictive insights, sequencing, and decision-making.

⛳️ Requirements

• A degree or equivalent experience is required.

• Generally, 7+ years of relevant professional experience in Agile delivery, program delivery, product development, technology, or a related field.

• Experience in supporting Agile teams within a scaled environment.

• Proven experience in leading large, cross-functional planning and execution events.

• Strong working knowledge of SAFe, Lean, Scrum, Kanban, PI Planning, dependency management, flow, and continuous improvement practices.

• Advanced skills in facilitation, coaching, stakeholder management, conflict resolution, and negotiation.

• Capability to develop practical solutions to complex problems and exercise sound judgment with minimal guidance.

• Ability to influence without formal authority and effectively communicate with delivery teams, senior leaders, and cross-functional partners.

• Strong systems thinking ability.

• Familiarity with Agile planning and collaboration tools such as Atlassian and Miro.

• Preferred certifications include SAFe Release Train Engineer, SAFe Practice Consultant, SAFe Agilist, Certified ScrumMaster, Agile Coach, PMP, or similar credentials.

• Preferred experience in supporting retail pharmacy products, pharmacy chains, point-of-sale and claims workflows, medication access, or healthcare delivery.

• Preferred experience with AI-assisted facilitation, predictive delivery insights, scenario modeling, or Agile metrics and reporting automation.

• Preferred experience in a product-led operating model or value stream environment that encompasses product, engineering, data, user experience, and business teams.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation package.

• Annual bonus may be offered.

• Long-term incentive opportunities may be available.

• Benefits information is provided via McKesson Total Rewards.

• Equal employment opportunities are offered.

• Reasonable accommodations for job search or employment applications are available.