Remote: Senior Manager, Release Train Leadership

Lumen; Trenton (NJ); Remote; USD 145,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

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Job summary

Lumen is seeking a Senior Manager of Release Train Engineers to lead an RTE and Sr. RTE team within the SDLC, ensuring Agile Release Train execution with clear accountability and measurable impact.

You will partner with TPMO, Product, Engineering, Architecture and business leaders to align ARTs with priorities and drive improvement through automation, AI-enabled workflows, and data-driven insights. This remote role is open to candidates across the U.S., with compensation based on location within

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Agile delivery, release-train leadership, SDLC operations, project management, platform delivery, systems delivery, or enterprise technology delivery.
• 3+ years of people‑leadership experience managing RTEs, Sr. RTEs, Scrum Masters, Agile delivery leaders, or comparable roles.
• Experience establishing ART standards, governance routines, dashboards, planning calendars, escalation models, dependency-management practices, and reporting mechanisms.

Responsibilities

• People Leadership: Manage, coach, develop, and evaluate RTEs and Sr. RTEs; set expectations, provide feedback, support career growth, and ensure the team operates with clear priorities, role clarity, and accountability.
• RTE Operating Model Ownership: Define and maintain standards, playbooks, templates, dashboards, cadence expectations, governance routines, and escalation models for ART execution.
• Portfolio Execution Alignment: Align RTE and Sr. RTE work with business priorities, PI planning calendars, portfolio objectives, product roadmaps, delivery commitments, and leadership expectations.
• Risk, Dependency & Escalation Governance: Establish consistent methods for managing ART risks, impediments, dependencies, escalation paths, accountability, and executive visibility.
• Metrics & Performance Management: Monitor ART health, RTE effectiveness, predictability, flow metrics, milestone confidence, dependency trends, and operating-model adoption. Use insights to drive improvement actions.
• Optimization & Agentic Creativity: Continuously improve ART operating models using systems thinking, Lean-Agile practices, experimentation, intelligent automation, and agentic AI. Encourage RTEs to develop innovative, responsible approaches that reduce administrative effort, improve decision quality, accelerate issue resolution, and strengthen delivery outcomes.
• Stakeholder Leadership: Partner with senior Product, Engineering, Architecture, TPMO, Operations, and business leaders to resolve delivery issues, clarify ownership, improve planning quality, and strengthen cross-functional execution.

Skills

Agile delivery

RTE leadership

SDLC ops

Project management

Platform delivery

Enterprise delivery

Tools

Jira

Jira Align

Confluence

Clarity

ServiceNow SPM

Power BI

AI tools

Job description

Lumen is seeking a Senior Manager of Release Train Engineers to lead an RTE and Sr. RTE team within the SDLC, ensuring Agile Release Train execution with clear accountability and measurable impact.

You will partner with TPMO, Product, Engineering, Architecture and business leaders to align ARTs with priorities and drive improvement through automation, AI-enabled workflows, and data-driven insights. This remote role is open to candidates across the U.S., with compensation based on location within