Release Train Engineer(s) - Healthcare

McKesson•Columbus, OH

5d•$115,400 - $192,300

About The Position

As the dedicated Retail Value Stream Release Train Engineer, this role serves as the chief facilitator enabling alignment, execution, and continuous improvement across multiple teams. Operating within the Retail Suites SAFe Operating Model and Lean Portfolio Management framework, the role establishes the operating cadence that supports work flowing from strategy through delivery. It applies deep expertise and independent judgment to coach teams and leaders, improve predictability, manage dependencies, solve complex delivery challenges, and deliver value at scale. The role enables alignment and execution across the system; it does not own product priorities, technical architecture, team-level delivery decisions, or people management. The position supports CoverMyMeds’ Access & Affordability product suite, which provides integrated solutions to help patients overcome medication access barriers, reduce affordability friction, and move through their medication journey, while helping providers initiate, manage, and track patient access.

Requirements

Degree or equivalent experience and typically 7+ years of relevant professional experience in Agile delivery, program delivery, product development, technology, or a related field.
Demonstrated experience supporting Agile teams in a scaled environment and 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 facilitation, coaching, stakeholder management, conflict resolution, and negotiation skills.
Ability to develop practical approaches to complex problems, apply sound judgment with limited direction, anticipate change, and redirect efforts as needed.
Ability to influence without formal authority and communicate credibly with delivery teams, senior leaders, and cross-functional partners.
Strong systems thinking and ability to connect delivery patterns, risks, dependencies, and organizational outcomes.
Experience using Agile planning and collaboration tools such as Atlassian and Miro.

Nice To Haves

SAFe Release Train Engineer, SAFe Practice Consultant, SAFe Agilist, Certified ScrumMaster, Agile Coach, PMP, or comparable certification; relevant experience is valued alongside credentials.
Experience supporting retail pharmacy products, pharmacy chains, point-of-sale and claims workflows, medication access, or another healthcare delivery environment.
Experience with AI-assisted facilitation, predictive delivery insights, scenario modeling, or automation of Agile metrics and reporting.
Experience working in a product-led operating model or value stream environment spanning product, engineering, data, user experience, and business teams.

Responsibilities

Partner with the Operating Model Transformation Team and Product Operations to design, facilitate, and improve value stream and ART-level operating cadences, including PI Planning, ART Syncs, Scrum of Scrums, Product Owner Syncs, System Demos, Inspect & Adapt workshops, and PI execution reviews.
Establish a consistent operating rhythm and lead large-scale, cross-functional planning and execution events involving multiple teams, competing priorities, and real-time decision-making.
Prepare teams and leaders for PI Planning by aligning priorities, capacity, dependencies, risks, objectives, and backlog readiness; facilitate Program Board creation, planning alignment, confidence voting, risk ROAMing, and capture of committed and stretch PI objectives.
Support pre-planning activities to promote realistic sequencing, alignment, and committed delivery outcomes.
Make cross-team dependencies, risks, blockers, and impediments visible and actively managed across the value stream.
Monitor and improve system flow by identifying systemic bottlenecks, mediating cross-team conflicts and dependency trade-offs, and escalating issues that cannot be resolved at the team level.
Track performance, flow metrics, ART health, and delivery outcomes to improve predictability and execution confidence.
Use AI-enabled analytics and dashboards to identify patterns and bottlenecks, surface risks, and translate delivery insights into actions and data-driven decisions.
Lead Inspect & Adapt workshops, retrospectives, problem-solving sessions, and improvement backlogs to strengthen ART health and delivery performance.
Coach teams and leaders on Lean-Agile principles, decentralized decision-making, and system-level thinking; guide less-experienced colleagues and enable self-sustaining delivery systems.
Connect Product Management, Technology, User Experience, Data, portfolio partners, and business leadership; align strategy, backlog priorities, and execution, and communicate ART health, outcomes, risks, dependencies, decisions, and improvement opportunities.
Use AI-assisted tools for facilitation, scenario modeling, and dependency management; apply predictive insights to anticipate risks, optimize sequencing, redirect efforts as conditions change, and improve decisions during PI Planning and execution.