Release Train Engineer
About The Position
The Release Train Engineer (RTE) serves as Agile Release Train (ART) coach and program delivery lead for Wolverine Worldwide’s eCommerce ART. The role enables delivery of complex digital initiatives by coordinating product and technology teams, facilitating planning and governance, managing dependencies and risks, and aligning business priorities with technology execution. The RTE partners with Product Management, Engineering, Architecture, Business Stakeholders, Portfolio Leadership, and Vendor Partners to deliver customer-facing capabilities across eCommerce, OMS, MarTech, and Customer Experience platforms. The role promotes delivery predictability, transparency, continuous improvement, and strategic business outcomes. The position leads ART ceremonies and coordinates execution across teams, supports planning and portfolio governance, and provides leadership visibility into program status, risks, progress, and delivery decisions. It coordinates integrated release planning and operational readiness, establishes program metrics and dashboards, and coaches teams and stakeholders in Agile and SAFe practices. The role also identifies improvements to delivery performance, team effectiveness, and ART maturity, and builds, coaches, and inspires a high-performing team. The position is based in a normal office environment with a flexible hybrid schedule of three days in the office and two days remote. Some travel may be required.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 7 years leading complex technology delivery programs.
- At least 5 years working within Agile and/or SAFe environments.
- Experience coordinating multiple Agile teams delivering large-scale digital or eCommerce initiatives.
- Demonstrated success facilitating executive planning, governance, and stakeholder alignment activities.
- Knowledge of Agile methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban, and Lean, and SAFe practices.
- Knowledge of program, portfolio, and release management.
- Knowledge of dependency, risk, and stakeholder management.
- Knowledge of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and delivery metrics.
- Knowledge of digital commerce platforms and customer experience solutions.
Nice To Haves
- SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE), SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), PMP, CSM, PSM, or equivalent certification.
- Experience with Azure DevOps, Jira, ServiceNow, Power BI, Microsoft Teams, and M365 Copilot.
- Experience supporting retail, consumer products, or digital commerce organizations.
- Experience managing vendor and systems integrator relationships.
- Experience working across global and multi-brand organizations.
Responsibilities
- Lead and facilitate ART ceremonies, including PI Planning, ART Syncs, Scrum of Scrums, System Demos, and Inspect & Adapt events.
- Coordinate execution across multiple Agile teams to align with business objectives, roadmap commitments, and release plans.
- Manage cross-team dependencies, risks, impediments, and competing priorities, escalating issues requiring leadership attention.
- Foster accountability, collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement.
- Partner with Product Managers, Product Owners, Engineering Leaders, and Business Stakeholders to align priorities, delivery plans, and capacity.
- Support quarterly and annual planning, portfolio governance, and demand prioritization discussions.
- Facilitate stakeholder decision-making when priorities, resources, scope, or dependencies conflict.
- Provide leadership visibility into program status, risks, progress, and key delivery decisions.
- Coordinate integrated release planning across teams, platforms, and vendors.
- Ensure business, technical, and operational readiness activities are completed before release.
- Partner with Infrastructure, Security, Operations, and Change Management teams on deployments and post-release reviews.
- Establish and manage program-level metrics and dashboards covering predictability, PI objective achievement, velocity trends, dependency resolution, release readiness, quality measures, and capacity utilization.
- Coach teams and stakeholders on Agile and SAFe practices and promote Lean-Agile principles.
- Identify opportunities to improve delivery performance, team effectiveness, and ART maturity.
- Build, coach, and inspire a high-performing team.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
