Lead Release Train Engineer

Lumen
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 105,786 - 155,152 annuallyFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceExperience: 6+ yearsSkills: ["Servant leadership","Coaching","Risk management","Continuous improvement","Cross-team collaboration"]

Serve as a servant leader for an Agile Release Train (ART) across Lumen’s SDLC, facilitating PI Planning readiness, ART syncs, demos, and Inspect & Adapt ceremonies. Coordinate execution across multiple Agile teams, ensuring stories, dependencies, and features align to a credible PI plan. Own ART-level risk/impediment escalation and flow metrics, coordinate release readiness and release-on-demand support, and drive continuous improvement through retrospectives.

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Lead Release Train Engineer

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Job Summary

Serve as a servant leader for an Agile Release Train (ART) across Lumen’s SDLC, facilitating PI Planning readiness, ART syncs, demos, and Inspect & Adapt ceremonies. Coordinate execution across multiple Agile teams, ensuring stories, dependencies, and features align to a credible PI plan. Own ART-level risk/impediment escalation and flow metrics, coordinate release readiness and release-on-demand support, and drive continuous improvement through retrospectives.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Facilitate PI Planning readiness, PI Planning, ART Sync, Scrum of Scrums, System Demos, and Inspect & Adapt ceremonies for one Agile Release Train.
  • •Coordinate planning and execution across teams on the ART to keep features, stories, and dependencies aligned to a credible PI plan.
  • •Identify, track, manage, and escalate ART-level risks, impediments, constraints, and dependencies before they threaten delivery commitments.
  • •Own ART-level metrics and reporting, including flow, velocity, predictability, feature throughput, delivery health, and commitment progress in the management tool.
  • •Coordinate ART release readiness and execution, including release-on-demand support and movement of features through deploying and releasing states.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 105,786 - 155,152 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kGym MembershipLearning Budget

Key Requirements

  • •6+ years of experience in technical program management, Agile delivery leadership, SDLC operations, release management, Scrum Master leadership, or scaled Agile execution.
  • •2+ years operating in or directly supporting an ART-level environment.
  • •Demonstrated ability to apply Agile at Scale concepts to manage aligned features, improve flow, and support predictable delivery across an ART.
  • •Exemplifies an agile servant-leader mindset and supports coaching, Communities of Practice, and collaboration across the train.
  • •Experience with Jira, Jira Align, Confluence, Agile dashboards, flow metrics, dependency tracking, and executive-ready delivery reporting (preferred).
Experience:6+ yearsAgileScaled AgileSDLCRelease management
Skills:Servant leadershipCoachingRisk managementContinuous improvementCross-team collaboration
Certifications:SAFe RTESAFe AgilistSAFe Scrum MasterSPCCSM
Tech Stack:JiraJira AlignConfluence

Company Brief

Lumen
Provides integrated communications, network, edge cloud, and security services to enterprise, government, and carrier customers, operating a global fiber network and delivering connectivity and managed IT solutions.
Industry: Telecommunications
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Monroe, United States
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