Release Train Engineer

Release Train Engineer

Job ID 2026-11471

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Wolverine World Wide, Inc. (NYSE: WWW) is a global footwear and apparel company driven by a vision to Make. Every Day. Better. Founded in 1883, the Company builds and grows iconic brands including Merrell, Saucony, Wolverine, Sweaty Betty, Chaco, Hush Puppies, Stride Rite, HYTEST, and Bates, along with footwear licenses for Cat and Harley-Davidson. Headquartered in Rockford, Michigan, the Company's products are sold in approximately 170 countries and territories worldwide. For more information, visit www.wolverineworldwide.com.

In 2025, the Company was recognized by Footwear News as Company of the Year, by Forbes as one of America's Dream Employers, America's Best Employers for Women, and America's Best Employers for Company Culture, and by Inspiring Workplaces as one of the Most Inspiring Workplaces Globally.

Wolverine Worldwide is a Certified Great Place To Work.

The Release Train Engineer (RTE) serves as Agile Release Train (ART) coach, and program delivery lead for the eCommerce ART. This role enables the successful delivery of complex digital initiatives by coordinating multiple product and technology teams, facilitating planning and governance activities, managing dependencies and risks, and ensuring alignment between business priorities and technology execution.

The RTE partners closely with Product Management, Engineering, Architecture, Business Stakeholders, Portfolio Leadership, and Vendor Partners to deliver customer-facing capabilities across eCommerce, OMS, MarTech, and Customer Experience platforms. The role drives delivery predictability, transparency, continuous improvement, and achievement of strategic business outcomes.

Primary Duties:

Agile Delivery & Program Execution

• Lead and facilitate ART ceremonies including PI Planning, ART Syncs, Scrum of Scrums, System Demos, and Inspect & Adapt events.
• Coordinate execution across multiple agile teams, ensuring alignment to business objectives, roadmap commitments, and release plans.
• Manage cross-team dependencies, risks, impediments, and competing priorities while proactively escalating issues requiring leadership attention.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement.

Planning, Governance & Stakeholder Engagement

• Partner with Product Managers, Product Owners, Engineering Leaders, and Business Stakeholders to align priorities, delivery plans, and capacity.
• Support quarterly and annual planning processes, portfolio governance activities, and demand prioritization discussions.
• Facilitate decision-making across stakeholders when priorities, resources, scope, or dependencies conflict.
• Provide leadership visibility into program status, risks, progress, and key delivery decisions.

Release Management & Operational Readiness

• Coordinate integrated release planning across teams, platforms, and vendors.
• Ensure business, technical, and operational readiness activities are completed prior to release.
• Partner with Infrastructure, Security, Operations, and Change Management teams to support successful deployments and post-release reviews.

Metrics, Coaching & Continuous Improvement

• Establish and manage program-level metrics and dashboards including predictability, PI objective achievement, velocity trends, dependency resolution, release readiness, quality measures, and capacity utilization.
• Coach teams and stakeholders on Agile and SAFe practices while promoting Lean-Agile principles.
• Identify opportunities to improve delivery performance, team effectiveness, and ART maturity.
• Build, coach and inspire a high-performing team.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years leading complex technology delivery programs.
• 5+ years working within Agile and/or SAFe environments.
• Experience coordinating multiple Agile teams delivering large-scale digital or eCommerce initiatives.
• Demonstrated success facilitating executive planning, governance, and stakeholder alignment activities.
• Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Lean) and SAFe practices.
• Program, portfolio, and release management.
• Dependency, risk, and stakeholder management.
• Software development lifecycle (SDLC) and delivery metrics.
• Digital commerce platforms and customer experience solutions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE), SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), PMP, CSM, PSM, or equivalent certifications.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, Jira, ServiceNow, Power BI, Microsoft Teams, and M365 Copilot.
• Experience supporting retail, consumer products, or digital commerce organizations.
• Experience managing vendor and systems integrator relationships.
• Experience working across global and multi-brand organizations.

Working Conditions:

Normal office environment. Some travel may be required.

Wolverine Worldwide has a flexible, hybrid work schedule, with three days in office and two days remote.

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The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills which may be required.

Wolverine Worldwide, Inc. is committed to creating a company that is as diverse as our consumers. We value the differences in one another and believe our differences make us stronger. Our diverse and inclusive corporate culture starts with the recruitment process. We are committed to being an equal opportunity employer. We aim to create equal opportunities for our associates, customers, and suppliers regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other legally protected characteristic.

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