Release Train Engineer

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We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve \u2013 we care.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\u0022text-align:inherit\u0022\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\u0022text-align:left\u0022\u003EWhat you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and are empowered to bring new ideas. Together, we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients, our communities, and our people. If you want to be part of tomorrow\u2019s health today, we want to hear from you.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\u0022text-align:inherit\u0022\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\u0022text-align:inherit\u0022\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\u0022color:#233967\u0022\u003E\u003Cb\u003EABOUT THE TEAM\u003C/b\u003E\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\u0022color:!important\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan style=\u0022color:#000000\u0022\u003ECoverMyMeds\u0027 Shared Product Capabilities team is a high-performing group that builds the reusable capabilities CoverMyMeds\u0027 Specialty, Retail, and Pharmacy \u0026 PBM product teams rely on, including a unified provider portal, medical prior authorization connectivity to payers, benefits verification, enrollments, consent, affordability, and AI-driven Next Best Action. In partnership with teams across the business, Shared Product Capabilities helps people get the medicine they need to live healthier lives.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cp style=\u0022color:!important\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan style=\u0022color:#233967\u0022\u003E\u003Cb\u003EWHAT YOU\u0027LL DO\u003C/b\u003E\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\u0022color:!important\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan style=\u0022color:#000000\u0022\u003EAs the dedicated Shared Product Capabilities Value Stream Release Train Engineer, you will serve as the chief facilitator, enabling alignment, execution, and continuous improvement across multiple teams and across the product value streams that depend on their work. Operating within the CoverMyMeds SAFe Operating Model and Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) framework, you will establish the operating cadence that enables work to flow seamlessly from strategy through delivery. As a key contributor, you will apply deep expertise and independent judgment to coach teams and leaders, improve predictability, manage dependencies, solve complex delivery challenges, and deliver value at scale. This role enables alignment and execution across the system and does not own product priorities, technical architecture, team-level delivery decisions, or people management.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cp style=\u0022color:!important\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan style=\u0022color:#233967\u0022\u003E\u003Cb\u003EKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\u003C/b\u003E\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan style=\u0022color:#000000\u0022\u003EPartner with the Operating Model Transformation Team and Product Operations to design, facilitate, and continuously improve value stream and ART-level operating cadences, including PI Planning, ART Syncs, Scrum of Scrums, Product Owner Syncs, System Demos, Inspect \u0026 Adapt workshops, and PI execution reviews. Help shape the broader operating model by bringing forward lessons from a cross-cutting value stream and recommending improvements to shared processes, artifacts, and cross-value stream planning practices.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan style=\u0022color:#000000\u0022\u003EEstablish a consistent operating rhythm that enables alignment and execution, and lead large-scale, cross-functional planning and execution events involving multiple teams, competing priorities, and real-time decision-making.\u00A0\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan style=\u0022color:#000000\u0022\u003EEnsure teams and leaders are prepared 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.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan style=\u0022color:#000000\u0022\u003EEnsure cross-team dependencies, risks, blockers, and impediments are visible and actively managed across the value stream. Monitor and improve flow across the system by identifying and addressing systemic bottlenecks, mediating cross-team conflicts and dependency trade-offs, and proactively escalating issues that cannot be resolved at the team level.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan style=\u0022color:#000000\u0022\u003EBecause this value stream delivers capabilities consumed by multiple product value streams, partner with peer Release Train Engineers and value stream leaders to align on cross-value stream dependencies, shared team capacity, and integration milestones before and during each PI. Make competing demands for shared capacity visible, frame trade-offs with data, and bring them to the right leaders for decision.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan style=\u0022color:#000000\u0022\u003ETrack 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 earlier, and translate delivery insights into clear actions and data-driven decisions for teams and leaders.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan style=\u0022color:#000000\u0022\u003ELead Inspect \u0026 Adapt workshops, retrospectives, problem-solving sessions, and improvement backlogs that strengthen ART health and delivery performance. Coach teams and leaders on Lean-Agile principles, decentralized decision-making, and system-level thinking. Share expertise and guide colleagues with less experience, enabling self-sustaining delivery systems rather than directly managing execution outcomes.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan style=\u0022color:#000000\u0022\u003EAct as a connective force across Product Management, Technology, User Experience, Data, portfolio partners, and business leadership. Ensure alignment between strategy, backlog priorities, and execution; maintain visibility into ART health and outcomes; and communicate delive