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 principal facilitator for various teams.

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

• Organize and facilitate PI Planning, ART Syncs, Scrum of Scrums, Product Owner Syncs, System Demos, Inspect & Adapt workshops, and PI execution evaluations.

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

• Prepare teams and leadership for PI Planning by ensuring alignment on priorities, capacity, dependencies, risks, objectives, and backlog readiness.

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

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

• Monitor and enhance system flow, mediate conflicts between teams, and escalate unresolved issues as necessary.

• Track performance, flow metrics, ART health, and delivery outcomes.

• Leverage AI-enabled analytics and dashboards to identify bottlenecks, highlight risks, and support data-driven decision-making.

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

• Coach teams and leaders in Lean-Agile principles, decentralized decision-making, and systems 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 adaptive value delivery.

⛳️ Requirements

• A degree or equivalent experience.

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

• Proven experience in supporting Agile teams within a scaled environment.

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

• Strong understanding of SAFe, Lean, Scrum, Kanban, PI Planning, dependency management, flow, and continuous improvement methodologies.

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

• Ability to tackle complex problems, exercise sound judgment with limited guidance, anticipate change, and adjust efforts accordingly.

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

• Strong systems thinking abilities.

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

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

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

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

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation package.

• Annual bonus may be available.

• Long-term incentive opportunities may be available.

• Comprehensive benefits through McKesson’s Total Rewards package.

• Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.