Manager, Release Train Engineering

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Position Summary

The Manager, Release Train Engineering serves as a key Agile delivery leader responsible for helping multiple teams align around shared objectives and successfully deliver business value across an Agile Release Train. 

This role combines Release Train Engineer leadership, Agile coaching, delivery management, and cross-functional coordination. The successful candidate will facilitate Program Increment planning and ART events, proactively manage risks and dependencies, coach teams and leaders in Agile and SAFe practices, and create transparency around delivery commitments and outcomes. 

The individual will partner closely with Product Management, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, technology leaders, business stakeholders, and delivery teams to remove obstacles, improve predictability, and ensure the Release Train remains aligned with strategic priorities.

Key Responsibilities 

• Lead and facilitate Program Increment planning, including preparation, execution, and post-PI activities. 

• Coordinate multiple Agile teams around shared objectives, priorities, milestones, and delivery commitments. 

• Facilitate key Agile Release Train events and promote effective execution throughout each Program Increment. 

• Identify, escalate, and help resolve risks, impediments, and cross-team dependencies that could affect successful delivery. 

• Partner with Product Managers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, technology leaders, business stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to maintain alignment. 

• Provide clear visibility into PI objectives, delivery progress, program risks, milestones, dependencies, and outcomes. 

• Use tools such as Jira and Mural, along with delivery reporting, metrics, and emerging AI-enabled capabilities, to monitor execution and identify potential risks. 

• Coach teams, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and leaders on Agile ways of working and SAFe practices. 

• Help teams continuously improve delivery flow, predictability, collaboration, and effectiveness. 

• Support release readiness and coordinate the activities required for successful production deployments. 

• Work with TPMs, TPOs, engineering teams, and other stakeholders to help ensure releases are production-ready. 

• Create an environment where teams can remain focused on delivering value by actively removing roadblocks and connecting teams with the resources required to solve problems quickly. 

• Promote transparency, accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning across the Release Train. 

• Ensure ART activities remain focused on measurable business value and broader strategic objectives. 

This job profile description is a standardized, non-contractual reference description and global reference tool provided for organizational consistency and talent architecture purposes across Cencora. It does not alter actual job duties, responsibilities, reporting lines, working conditions, grading, compensation, or other essential terms and conditions of employment.

Actual duties and responsibilities may vary based on business needs, local requirements, and operational practices. Where a team member's role is governed by an employment agreement, local terms and conditions, prior job description or collective bargaining agreement, those documents shall prevail in case of any inconsistency. Mandatory local laws shall also prevail.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience operating as a Release Train Engineer, Senior Scrum Master, Agile Delivery Lead, Agile Program Manager, or comparable scaled-Agile leadership role. 

• Strong knowledge of Agile and SAFe principles, including Agile Release Trains, PI Planning, PI Objectives, dependency management, and continuous improvement. 

• Experience coordinating delivery across multiple Agile teams and complex technology initiatives. 

• Demonstrated ability to facilitate large cross-functional planning and alignment sessions. 

• Strong experience identifying and resolving delivery risks, impediments, and dependencies. 

• Experience partnering effectively with Product Management, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, engineering teams, technology leadership, and business stakeholders. 

• Experience using Jira or comparable Agile lifecycle-management tools to manage work, dependencies, and delivery visibility. 

• Strong communication, facilitation, coaching, and stakeholder-management capabilities. 

• Ability to translate delivery data and metrics into clear insights for technology and business leadership. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE), SAFe Agilist, SAFe Scrum Master, SPC, or comparable Agile certification. 

• Experience leading Agile delivery within a large, complex enterprise technology organization. 

• Experience with Mural or similar collaborative planning tools. 

• Experience supporting production release planning and readiness. 

• Experience applying reporting, analytics, automation, or AI-enabled tools to improve program visibility and delivery effectiveness. 

What Cencora offers

We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members’ ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave. To encourage your personal growth, we also offer a variety of training programs, professional development resources, and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and much more. For details, visit https://www.virtualfairhub.com/cencora

Equal Employment Opportunity

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The company’s continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.

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