Release Train Engineer (Pharmacy)

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CoverMyMeds Pharmacy Product is a high-performing team focused on delivering innovative solutions for pharmacies that improve patient partnership with teams across the business Pharmacy Product helps people get the medicine they need to live healthier lives.

What Youll Do:

As the dedicated Pharmacy Value Stream Release Train Engineer you will serve as the chief facilitator enabling alignment execution and continuous improvement across multiple teams. Operating within the Pharmacy Suites 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 deepexpertiseand 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.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner 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 & Adapt workshops and PI execution reviews.
• Establish 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.
• Ensure 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.
• Ensure 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.
• 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 earlier and translate delivery insights into clear actions and data-driven decisions for teams and leaders.
• Lead Inspect & 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.
• Act 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 delivery risks dependencies decisions and improvement opportunities to leaders and cross-functional partners.
• Use AI-assisted tools to enhance facilitation scenario modeling and dependency management across the ART. Apply predictive insights to anticipate delivery risks optimize sequencing redirect efforts as conditions change and improve decision-making during PI Planning and execution enabling faster and more adaptive value delivery.

Skills Youll Need:

• 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 the ability to connect delivery patterns risks dependencies and organizational outcomes.
• Experience using Agile planning and collaboration tools such as Atlassian and Miro.

Preferred Skills:

• 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 pharmacy products pharmacy operations pharmacy technology 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.

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