Senior Lead Release Train Engineer - Remote Agile Leadership

Lumen; Cheyenne (WY); On-site; USD 132,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life Insurance

Bonus Structure

Remote work

Job summary

Lumen is seeking a Senior Lead Release Train Engineer (Sr. RTE) to act as an experienced servant leader and execution partner for complex Agile Release Trains within the SDLC.

You will drive ART maturity, improve flow, coach leaders and teams, and translate delivery commitments into executable plans. You will collaborate with Product Management, System Architects, Scrum Masters, TPMs, and engineering leaders to ensure the ARTs operate as one coordinated delivery system, while mentoring RTEs and

Qualifications

• 8+ years in technical program management or agile delivery leadership.
• 4+ years facilitating Agile Release Train execution and PI Planning.
• Proven ability to coach leaders and teams in Lean‑Agile practices.
• Experience managing cross-ART risks, dependencies, and impediments.
• Tooling & reporting experience with Jira, Jira Align, Confluence.
• SAFe RTE certification preferred; additional SAFe/Agilist/CSM/CSPO valued.

Responsibilities

• Lead PI Planning readiness, PI Planning, ART Sync, Scrum of Scrums, System Demos, Inspect & Adapt, and related ceremonies.
• Lead planning and alignment across complex teams, related ARTs, and senior stakeholders; ensure scope, capacity, dependencies and tradeoffs are visible before commitments.
• Coach Product Management, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, TPMs, Engineering leaders, Architects, and Business Owners on Lean-Agile practices, role clarity, flow, escalation discipline, and decision-making.
• Identify, track, manage, and elevate systemic risks, cross-ART dependencies, capacity constraints, organizational impediments, and execution-pattern issues.
• Define, improve, and govern ART-level metrics, dashboards, flow insights, maturity assessments, reusable playbooks, and operating standards.
• Drive continuous improvement across teams and leadership forums by ensuring improvement actions are owned, visible, prioritized, measurable.

Skills

Agile leadership

SDLC operations

Lean-Agile coaching

Jira

Jira Align

Confluence

Delivery governance

Cross-team coordination

Tools

Jira

Jira Align

Confluence

Job description

Lumen is seeking a Senior Lead Release Train Engineer (Sr. RTE) to act as an experienced servant leader and execution partner for complex Agile Release Trains within the SDLC.

You will drive ART maturity, improve flow, coach leaders and teams, and translate delivery commitments into executable plans. You will collaborate with Product Management, System Architects, Scrum Masters, TPMs, and engineering leaders to ensure the ARTs operate as one coordinated delivery system, while mentoring RTEs and