Remote Senior RTE Leader — Agile Release Train Excellence

Lumen; Hartford (CT); Remote; USD 132,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Lumen, the trusted network for AI-powered connectivity, seeks a Senior Manager of Release Train Engineers to lead an RTE organization within our SDLC. You will define standards, coach teams, and align ART execution with portfolio priorities, roadmaps, and business outcomes.

This remote U.S. role emphasizes delivery excellence, risk management, and relentless improvement through Lean-Agile practices, automation, and AI-enabled workflows.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in 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.
• Strong knowledge of Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Lean-Agile principles, SAFe, PI Planning, ART operations, SDLC execution, software delivery, and portfolio governance.
• Demonstrated ability to coach RTEs and delivery leaders, manage performance, resolve organizational impediments, and influence senior stakeholders.
• Ability to translate ART health, delivery data, risk, dependency exposure, and milestone confidence into executive-ready insights and improvement plans.
• Demonstrated experience optimizing delivery systems through continuous improvement, automation, AI-enabled capabilities, or agentic workflows; ability to foster responsible experimentation and creative problem-solving.

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 operations

Project management

Portfolio governance

Coaching

Executive storytelling

Lean-Agile

Jira

Power BI

Tools

Jira Align

Confluence

Clarity

ServiceNow SPM

AI tools

Agile dashboards

Job description

Lumen, the trusted network for AI-powered connectivity, seeks a Senior Manager of Release Train Engineers to lead an RTE organization within our SDLC. You will define standards, coach teams, and align ART execution with portfolio priorities, roadmaps, and business outcomes.

This remote U.S. role emphasizes delivery excellence, risk management, and relentless improvement through Lean-Agile practices, automation, and AI-enabled workflows.