Release Train Engineer(s) - Healthcare

McKesson•Columbus, OH

About The Position

McKesson is hiring a dedicated Retail Value Stream Release Train Engineer for CoverMyMeds’ Access & Affordability product suite, which provides integrated solutions to help patients overcome medication access barriers and supports providers in initiating, managing, and tracking patient access. The role serves as the chief facilitator for alignment, execution, and continuous improvement across multiple teams, operating within the Retail Suites SAFe Operating Model and Lean Portfolio Management framework. It establishes the operating cadence that enables work to flow from strategy through delivery and applies independent judgment to coach teams and leaders, improve predictability, manage dependencies, resolve complex delivery challenges, and deliver value at scale. The position enables system-level alignment and execution; it does not own product priorities, technical architecture, team-level delivery decisions, or people management. The Release Train Engineer connects Product Management, Technology, User Experience, Data, portfolio partners, and business leadership, maintaining visibility into ART health and outcomes and communicating risks, dependencies, decisions, and improvement opportunities. AI-enabled analytics and tools are used to identify bottlenecks and risks, model scenarios, support dependency management, and inform adaptive decisions during planning and execution. McKesson offers a competitive compensation package. The base pay range for this position is $115,400–$192,300; additional compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities, may also be offered. Pay is determined by factors including performance, experience, skills, equity, market evaluations, and geographic market.

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, exercise 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 also valued.
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 spanning product, engineering, data, user experience, and business teams.

Responsibilities

Partner with the Operating Model Transformation Team and Product Operations to design, facilitate, and continuously improve value stream and ART operating cadences, including PI Planning, ART Syncs, Scrum of Scrums, Product Owner Syncs, System Demos, Inspect & Adapt workshops, and PI execution reviews.
Establish an operating rhythm that supports alignment and execution, 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 and planning alignment, confidence voting, risk ROAMing, and the 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 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 turn delivery insights into clear 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, and guide less-experienced colleagues toward 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, delivery 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 planning and execution decisions.