Pharmacy SAFe Release Train Engineer — Lead Agile Delivery

CoverMyMeds LLC; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 115,000 - 192,000; Full time

Job summary

McKesson is seeking a dedicated Pharmacy Value Stream Release Train Engineer to enable alignment, execution, and continuous improvement across multiple teams within the Pharmacy Suites SAFe Operating Model. You will coach teams and leaders, manage dependencies, and drive data-driven delivery decisions to scale value delivery.

This role focuses on establishing cadence, facilitating PI Planning and related events, and removing impediments at the system level, without owning product priorities or

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant professional experience in Agile delivery, program delivery, product development, technology, or a related field.
• Experience supporting Agile teams in a scaled environment and leading large cross-functional planning 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 influence without formal authority and communicate credibly with delivery teams, senior leaders, and cross-functional partners.
• Experience using Agile planning and collaboration tools such as Atlassian and Miro.

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 and priorities.
• Ensure teams are prepared for PI Planning by aligning priorities, capacity, dependencies, risks, objectives, and backlog readiness; facilitate Program Board creation and planning alignment.
• Manage cross-team dependencies, risks, blockers, and impediments; monitor flow and address systemic bottlenecks and conflicts.
• Track performance, flow metrics, ART health, and delivery outcomes; use AI-enabled analytics to identify patterns and guide actions.
• Lead Inspect & Adapt workshops and coach on Lean-Agile principles, decentralized decision-making, and system-level thinking.

Skills

Agile delivery

Scaled Agile / SAFe

Facilitation & coaching

Stakeholder management

Systems thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher

Tools

Atlassian tools

Miro

Job description

McKesson is seeking a dedicated Pharmacy Value Stream Release Train Engineer to enable alignment, execution, and continuous improvement across multiple teams within the Pharmacy Suites SAFe Operating Model. You will coach teams and leaders, manage dependencies, and drive data-driven delivery decisions to scale value delivery.

This role focuses on establishing cadence, facilitating PI Planning and related events, and removing impediments at the system level, without owning product priorities or