The Role

The Senior Lead Release Train Engineer (Sr. RTE) is an experienced servant leader, enterprise coach, and execution partner for a highly complex Agile Release Train or multiple closely aligned trains within Lumen's Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). You will be responsible for driving ART maturity, improving flow, coaching leaders and teams, and ensuring complex delivery commitments are translated into executable plans.

The Senior Lead RTE is expected to operate with greater independence, judgment, and cross-functional influence. This role supports more complex value delivery environments, mentors RTEs and Scrum Masters, strengthens operating standards. You will partner closely with Product Management, Product Owners, System Architects, Scrum Masters, STEs, TPMs, Engineering leaders, and stakeholders to ensure the ART executes as one coordinated delivery system.

Location

This a remote opportunity open to candidates located anywhere in the U.S.

The Main Responsibilities

• Advanced ART Planning & Execution: Lead PI Planning readiness, PI Planning, ART Sync, Scrum of Scrums, System Demos, Inspect & Adapt, and related operating-cadence ceremonies for a complex ART or multiple closely aligned ARTs.
• Advanced Cross-Team Alignment: Lead planning and alignment across complex teams, related ARTs, and senior stakeholders; ensure scope, capacity, dependencies, and tradeoffs are visible before commitments are made.
• Coaching & Role Clarity: 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.
• Systemic Risk, Dependency & Impediment Management: Identify, track, manage, and escalate systemic risks, cross-ART dependencies, capacity constraints, organizational impediments, and execution-pattern issues before they threaten delivery commitments.
• Advanced Metrics, Flow & Operating Standards: Define, improve, and govern ART-level metrics, dashboards, flow insights, maturity assessments, reusable playbooks, and operating standards that improve delivery transparency and predictability.
• Relentless Improvement & ART Maturity: Drive continuous improvement across teams and leadership forums by ensuring improvement actions become owned, visible, prioritized, measurable, and embedded into future planning cycles.

What We Look For in a Candidate

• 8 years of experience in technical program management, Agile delivery leadership, SDLC operations, product delivery, systems delivery, or related technology execution roles.
• 4 years of hands-on experience facilitating or leading Agile Release Train execution, PI Planning, ART Sync, System Demos, Inspect & Adapt, and ART-level delivery governance.
• Demonstrated ability to coach leaders, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Product Managers, TPMs, Architects, and engineering teams in Lean-Agile behaviors and scaled execution practices.
• Proven ability to manage complex risks, dependencies, impediments, and organizational constraints across multiple teams or related ARTs.
• Tooling & Reporting: Experience with Jira, Jira Align, Confluence, Agile dashboards, flow metrics, dependency tracking, and executive-ready delivery reporting preferred.
• Experience building metrics, dashboards, playbooks, reporting routines, and improvement systems that increase delivery transparency and predictability.
• SAFe / Agile Certification: SAFe RTE strongly preferred; SPC, SAFe Agilist, SAFe Scrum Master, CSM, CSPO, or equivalent experience also valued.

Compensation

This information reflects the anticipated base salary range for this position based on current national data. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. Individual pay is based on skills, experience and other relevant factors.

Location Based Pay Ranges

$132,232 - $176,310 in these states: AL AR AZ FL GA IA ID IN KS KY LA ME MO MS MT ND NE NM OH OK PA SC SD TN UT VT WI WV WY
$138,844 - $185,124 in these states: CO HI MI MN NC NH NV OR RI
$145,456 - $193,940 in these states: AK CA CT DC DE IL MA MD NJ NY TX VA WA

Lumen offers a comprehensive package featuring a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle benefits and other perks that enhance your physical, mental, emotional and financial wellbeing. We're able to answer any additional questions you may have about our bonus structure (short-term incentives, long-term incentives and/or sales compensation) as you move through the selection process. Learn more about Lumen's:BenefitsBonus Structure

Requisition #: 343107