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(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.\nWolverine Worldwide is a Certified™ Great Place To Work®.\nThe 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.\nThe 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.\nPrimary Duties:\nAgile Delivery & Program Execution\nLead and facilitate ART ceremonies including PI Planning, ART Syncs, Scrum of Scrums, System Demos, and Inspect & Adapt events.\nCoordinate execution across multiple agile teams, ensuring alignment to business objectives, roadmap commitments, and release plans.\nManage cross-team dependencies, risks, impediments, and competing priorities while proactively escalating issues requiring leadership attention.\nFoster a culture of accountability, collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement.\nPlanning, Governance & Stakeholder Engagement\nPartner with Product Managers, Product Owners, Engineering Leaders, and Business Stakeholders to align priorities, delivery plans, and capacity.\nSupport quarterly and annual planning processes, portfolio governance activities, and demand prioritization discussions.\nFacilitate decision-making across stakeholders when priorities, resources, scope, or dependencies conflict.\nProvide leadership visibility into program status, risks, progress, and key delivery decisions.\nRelease Management & Operational Readiness\nCoordinate integrated release planning across teams, platforms, and vendors.\nEnsure business, technical, and operational readiness activities are completed prior to release.\nPartner with Infrastructure, Security, Operations, and Change Management teams to support successful deployments and post-release reviews.\nMetrics, Coaching & Continuous Improvement\nEstablish and manage program-level metrics and dashboards including predictability, PI objective achievement, velocity trends, dependency resolution, release readiness, quality measures, and capacity utilization.\nCoach teams and stakeholders on Agile and SAFe practices while promoting Lean-Agile principles.\nIdentify opportunities to improve delivery performance, team effectiveness, and ART maturity.\nBuild, coach and inspire a high-performing team.\nKnowledge, Skills and Abilities:\nBachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.\n7+ years leading complex technology delivery programs.\n5+ years working within Agile and/or SAFe environments.\nExperience coordinating multiple Agile teams delivering large-scale digital or eCommerce initiatives.\nDemonstrated success facilitating executive planning, governance, and stakeholder alignment activities.\nAgile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Lean) and SAFe practices.\nProgram, portfolio, and release management.\nDependency, risk, and stakeholder management.\nSoftware development lifecycle (SDLC) and delivery metrics.\nDigital commerce platforms and customer experience solutions.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nSAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE), SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), PMP, CSM, PSM, or equivalent certifications.\nExperience with Azure DevOps, Jira, ServiceNow, Power BI, Microsoft Teams, and M365 Copilot.\nExperience supporting retail, consumer products, or digital commerce organizations.\nExperience managing vendor and systems integrator relationships.\nExperience working across global and multi-brand organizations.\nWorking Conditions:\nNormal office environment. 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