AVP, Release Train Engineer

What you'll do

• Coordinate with project, scrum, technology, and vendor teams to align delivery outcomes with portfolio objectives.
• Manage program budgets and partner with finance teams to track, forecast, and report funding accurately.
• Oversee demand intake activities to ensure requests align with prioritization, funding, and portfolio capacity.
• Facilitate the resolution of program-level issues, dependencies, conflicts, and escalations.
• Identify, track, and remove impediments that impact program delivery.
• Assess project-level risks and elevate issues with potential program or portfolio impacts.
• Deliver weekly status reports, bi-weekly health reports, and monthly portfolio review updates.
• Monitor adherence to software development lifecycle, governance, and enterprise delivery standards.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, Computer Science, Information Systems, Communications, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of experience managing large-scale IT programs with budgets up to $5 million.
• 3+ years of experience serving as a Release Train Engineer.
• Experience managing projects and software development lifecycles using Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Experience applying analytical and decision-making skills in ambiguous business and technology environments.
• Outstanding attention to detail combined with the ability to understand program and portfolio impacts (preferred).
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with technical and business stakeholders (preferred).
• Experience monitoring and managing vendor performance (preferred).
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including Microsoft Project or similar tools (preferred).
• Working knowledge of Jira, Confluence, or similar collaboration and project management tools (preferred).