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Senior Release Train Engineer
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Role overview Coordinate delivery across an Agile Release Train responsible for regulated medical device software. The role leads Program Increment Planning from preparation through follow-up, aligns mobile and cloud teams around a shared release cadence, and keeps program leadership informed about milestone confidence and release readiness.
Responsibilities - Lead end-to-end Program Increment Planning, including preparation, the planning event, and follow-up on commitments. - Coordinate releases across iOS, Android, and cloud teams working to a shared train cadence. - Track risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies across the program, and identify their effects on milestones and releases. - Partner with Quality, Regulatory, and release management on gate readiness, Design Controls milestones, and supporting documentation. - Report train status to executives, including clear assessments of confidence in key milestones. - Align teams on train-level Definition of Ready and Definition of Done, and coordinate release phasing and documentation dates.
Requirements - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field. - Experience leading Program Increment Planning end to end and coordinating cross-platform releases across mobile and cloud teams. - Practical knowledge of medical device software regulations, quality systems, Design Controls, Design History File content, and verification evidence. - Familiarity with risk-management artifacts, including failure mode and hazard analyses, and the ability to assess release impacts. - Experience running program-level risk, assumption, issue, and dependency tracking; defining delivery KPIs; and participating in audits and corrective actions. - Ability to work with Quality and Regulatory partners on release gates and communicate milestone confidence to executives. - Working knowledge of a requirements and traceability tool such as Polarion, Smartsheet, and Limited Market and Full Market Release phasing.
Nice to have - SAFe Release Train Engineer certification.