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Release Train Engineer (Pharmacy)

McKesson Corporation

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Columbus, OH
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Job overview

The Release Train Engineer for Pharmacy Value Stream facilitates alignment, execution, and continuous improvement across multiple teams within the Pharmacy Suites SAFe Operating Model and Lean Portfolio Management framework. The role establishes operating cadences, coaches teams and leaders, improves predictability, manages dependencies, and addresses complex delivery challenges. It does not own product priorities, technical architecture, team-level delivery decisions, or people management.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

SAFeLean Portfolio ManagementPI PlanningART SyncsScrum of ScrumsProduct Owner SyncsSystem DemosInspect and AdaptProgram Board PlanningRisk ROAMingFlow MetricsAI-Enabled AnalyticsDashboardsLean-Agile PrinciplesDecentralized Decision-MakingSystem-Level Thinking

Full job description

McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve - we care. What you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and are empowered to bring new ideas. Together, we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients, our communities, and our people. If you want to be part of tomorrow's health today, we want to hear from you. CoverMyMeds' Pharmacy Product is a high-performing team focused on delivering innovative solutions for pharmacies that improve patient outcomes. In partnership with teams across the business, Pharmacy Product helps people get the medicine they need to live healthier lives. What You'll Do: As the dedicated Pharmacy Value Stream Release Train Engineer, you will serve as the chief facilitator, enabling alignment, execution, and continuous improvement across multiple teams. Operating within the Pharmacy Suites SAFe Operating Model and Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) framework, you will establish the operating cadence that enables work to flow seamlessly from strategy through delivery. As a key contributor, you will apply deepexpertiseand independent judgment to coach teams and leaders, improve predictability, manage dependencies, solve complex delivery challenges, and deliver value at scale. This role enables alignment and execution across the system and does not own product priorities, technical architecture, team-level delivery decisions, or people management. Key Responsibilities: Partner with the Operating Model Transformation Team and Product Operations to design, facilitate, and continuously improve value stream and ART-level operating cadences, including PI Planning, ART Syncs, Scrum of Scrums, Product Owner Syncs, System Demos, Inspect & Adapt workshops, and PI execution reviews. Establish a consistent operating rhythm that enables alignment and execution, and lead large-scale, cross-functional planning and execution events involving multiple teams, competing priorities, and real-time decision-making. Ensure teams and leaders are prepared for PI Planning by aligning priorities, capacity, dependencies, risks, objectives, and backlog readiness. Facilitate Program Board creation and planning alignment, confidence voting, risk ROAMing, and the capture of committed and stretch PI objectives. Support pre-planning activities to promote realistic sequencing, alignment, and committed delivery outcomes. Ensure cross-team dependencies, risks, blockers, and impediments are visible and actively managed across the value stream. Monitor and improve flow across the system by identifying and addressing systemic bottlenecks, mediating cross-team conflicts and dependency trade-offs, and proactively escalating issues that cannot be resolved at the team level. Track performance, flow metrics, ART health, and delivery outcomes to improve predictability and execution confidence. Use AI-enabled analytics and dashboards to identify patterns and bottlenecks, surface risks earlier, and translate delivery insights into clear actions and data-driven decisions for teams and leaders. Lead Inspect & Adapt workshops, retrospectives, problem-solving sessions, and improvement backlogs that strengthen ART health and delivery performance. Coach teams and leaders on Lean-Agile principles, decentralized decision-making, and system-level thinking. Share expertise and guide colleagues with less experience, enabling self-sustaining delivery systems rather than directly managing execution outcomes. Act as a connective force across Product Management, Technology, User Experience, Data, portfolio p

How this job compares

Set against the 11,062 open Program Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • Ohio median$122–210K/yr204 salary ranges
  • Ohio median$19–24/hr27 hourly ranges
Openings
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Experience
Program Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 6 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 5 to 8 years (9,391 postings).
Education
5,034 of the 11,062 open Program Manager jobs (46%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

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