Senior Lead Release Train Engineer

Lumen is the trusted network for the AI-powered world, connecting people, data, and applications through our expansive fiber network and connected ecosystem. We enable secure, high-performance connectivity across cloud, edge, and AI workloads for enterprises, governments, and communities. At Lumen, you’ll work on infrastructure customers rely on today and build for what’s next, where performance, security, and resilience matter. This is a high accountability environment where bold ideas drive real innovation for our customers, partners, and industry.

About 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.

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

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Lead planning and alignment across complex teams, related ARTs, and senior stakeholders; ensure scope, capacity, dependencies, and tradeoffs are visible before commitments are made.
• 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 escalate systemic risks, cross-ART dependencies, capacity constraints, organizational impediments, and execution-pattern issues before they threaten delivery commitments.
• Define, improve, and govern ART-level metrics, dashboards, flow insights, maturity assessments, reusable playbooks, and operating standards that improve delivery transparency and predictability.
• Drive continuous improvement across teams and leadership forums by ensuring improvement actions become owned, visible, prioritized, measurable, and embedded into future planning cycles.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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 RTE certification strongly preferred; SPC, SAFe Agilist, SAFe Scrum Master, CSM, CSPO, or equivalent experience also valued.

Pay

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

Individual pay is based on skills, experience, and other relevant factors. Additional compensation may include bonuses (short-term incentives, long-term incentives, and/or sales compensation).

Benefits

Lumen offers a comprehensive package featuring a broad range of health, life, and voluntary lifestyle benefits, as well as other perks that enhance physical, mental, emotional, and financial wellbeing.