Strategic Release Train Engineer & Consulting Lead

Cognizant; Ciudad de México; Hybrid; MXN 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Consulting Manager - Release Train Engineer to lead integrated planning, execution, and delivery for a GMP-regulated life sciences client. You will function as an RTE and project manager, coordinating cross-functional teams and vendors to deliver prioritized capabilities on schedule.

You will drive agile ceremonies, executive reporting, and governance across Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, and Data teams, while ensuring alignment with business outcomes and regulatory

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex transformation programs or agile release trains in pharmaceutical manufacturing or other regulated life-sciences environments.
• Strong practical experience as a Release Train Engineer, Program Manager, Agile Program Lead, or equivalent role.
• Delivery experience involving manufacturing digitalization, MES, electronic batch records, or related manufacturing execution platforms.
• Familiarity with GMP, data integrity, validation/CSV principles, and site implementation constraints.
• Proven ability to lead senior stakeholders and deliver executive reporting.

Responsibilities

• Establish and manage the integrated workstream plan, release roadmap, delivery cadence, resources, milestones, dependencies, risks, action items, and decisions, while facilitating agile planning and execution across multiple teams.
• Coordinate stakeholders across Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, the client's Tech & Digital organization, Data Scientists, and site operations; oversee MES of the Future implementation and core data connectivity.
• Ensure Golden Batch and Connected Worker/OEE initiatives stay aligned to business outcomes and regulatory requirements; manage dependencies, blockers, and delivery risks.
• Support evaluation and prioritization of PAT opportunities, including vendor interaction and integration into the roadmap.
• Produce concise executive status reporting and surface milestones, risks, decisions, and next steps to the PMO; promote agile practices in a regulated environment.

Skills

Release Train Engineer

Agile Program Lead

Stakeholder Management

Executive Reporting

Quality/regulatory awareness

Tools

SAFe Certification

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Consulting Manager - Release Train Engineer to lead integrated planning, execution, and delivery for a GMP-regulated life sciences client. You will function as an RTE and project manager, coordinating cross-functional teams and vendors to deliver prioritized capabilities on schedule.

You will drive agile ceremonies, executive reporting, and governance across Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, and Data teams, while ensuring alignment with business outcomes and regulatory