Release Train Engineer

Wolverine World Wide Inc. (NYSE: WWW) is a global footwear and apparel company driven by a vision to Make. Every Day. Better. Founded in 1883 the Company builds and grows iconic brands including Merrell Saucony Wolverine Sweaty Betty Chaco Hush Puppies Stride Rite HYTEST and Bates along with footwear licenses for Cat and Harley-Davidson. Headquartered in Rockford Michigan the Companys products are sold in approximately 170 countries and territories worldwide. For more information visit .

In 2025 the Company was recognized by Footwear News as Company of the Year by Forbes as one of Americas Dream Employers Americas Best Employers for Women and Americas Best Employers for Company Culture and by Inspiring Workplaces as one of the Most Inspiring Workplaces Globally.
Wolverine Worldwide is a Certified Great Place To Work.


The Release Train Engineer (RTE) serves as Agile Release Train (ART) coach and program delivery lead for the eCommerce ART. This role enables the successful delivery of complex digital initiatives by coordinating multiple product and technology teams facilitating planning and governance activities managing dependencies and risks and ensuring alignment between business priorities and technology execution.

The RTE partners closely 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 drives delivery predictability transparency continuous improvement and achievement of strategic business outcomes.

Primary Duties:

Agile Delivery & Program Execution

• 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 ensuring alignment to business objectives roadmap commitments and release plans.
• Manage cross-team dependencies risks impediments and competing priorities while proactively escalating issues requiring leadership attention.
• Foster a culture of accountability collaboration transparency and continuous improvement.

Planning Governance & Stakeholder Engagement

• Partner with Product Managers Product Owners Engineering Leaders and Business Stakeholders to align priorities delivery plans and capacity.
• Support quarterly and annual planning processes portfolio governance activities and demand prioritization discussions.
• Facilitate decision-making across stakeholders when priorities resources scope or dependencies conflict.
• Provide leadership visibility into program status risks progress and key delivery decisions.

Release Management & Operational Readiness

• Coordinate integrated release planning across teams platforms and vendors.
• Ensure business technical and operational readiness activities are completed prior to release.
• Partner with Infrastructure Security Operations and Change Management teams to support successful deployments and post-release reviews.

Metrics Coaching & Continuous Improvement

• Establish and manage program-level metrics and dashboards including predictability PI objective achievement velocity trends dependency resolution release readiness quality measures and capacity utilization.
• Coach teams and stakeholders on Agile and SAFe practices while promoting Lean-Agile principles.
• Identify opportunities to improve delivery performance team effectiveness and ART maturity.
• Build coach and inspire a high-performing team.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Bachelors degree in Information Technology Computer Science Business Administration Engineering or related field or equivalent experience.
• 7 years leading complex technology delivery programs.
• 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.
• Agile methodologies (Scrum Kanban Lean) and SAFe practices.
• Program portfolio and release management.
• Dependency risk and stakeholder management.
• Software development lifecycle (SDLC) and delivery metrics.
• Digital commerce platforms and customer experience solutions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE) SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) PMP CSM PSM or equivalent certifications.
• 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.

Working Conditions:

Normal office environment. Some travel may be required.

Wolverine Worldwide has a flexible hybrid work schedule with three days in office and two days remote.

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The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills which may be required.

Wolverine Worldwide Inc. is committed to creating a company that is as diverse as our consumers. We value the differences in one another and believe our differences make us stronger. Our diverse and inclusive corporate culture starts with the recruitment process. We are committed to being an equal opportunity employer. We aim to create equal opportunities for our associates customers and suppliers regardless of race color religion sex national origin age disability sexual orientation gender identity or any other legally protected characteristic.