Release Train Engineer at Avalon Administrative Services LLC – Tampa, Florida

Avalon Healthcare Solutions is the world's first and only Lab Insights company, bringing together our proven Lab Benefit Management solutions, lab science expertise, digitized lab values, and proprietary analytics to help healthcare insurers proactively inform appropriate care, reduce costs, and improve clinical outcomes. Working with health plans nationwide, the company covers over 44+ million lives and delivers 10-20% proven outpatient lab benefit savings. Avalon is pioneering a new era of value-driven care with its Lab Insights Program that captures, digitizes, and analyzes lab results in real-time to provide actionable insights for earlier disease detection, ensuring appropriate treatment protocols and driving down overall costs.

Avalon is a portfolio company of Francisco Partners, a global private equity firm that specializes in investments in technology and technology-enabled service companies. Avalon is a high growth company where every associate has an opportunity to make a difference.

Avalon has years of expertise in managing lab benefits and now is leveraging digitized lab results to drive quality clinical outcomes and proven savings. When you look at how we bring this to life, we offer Lab Insights solutions that work together to arm you with critical lab-driven insights to accelerate your value-driven care success. This is the first-of-its-kind suite of solutions to help you achieve the Triple Aim of improving the patient experience of care, improving the health of populations, and reducing the per-member cost of healthcare.

You will be part of a team that shapes a new market and business. Most importantly, you will help Avalon to achieve its mission and improve clinical outcomes and health care affordability for the people we serve.

For more information about Avalon, please visit www.avalonhcs.com.

About the Release Train Engineer position:

The Release Train Engineer is a servant leader and coach for the Agile Release Train (ART), assisting Avalon’s scrum and kanban teams in meeting delivery goals and providing value to the business. This role is responsible for facilitating ART events and processes such as our IT organization’s Big Room Planning (BRP) event each quarter, assisting teams in delivering value, and driving relentless improvement across the train. The RTE works closely with Product, Architecture, and other stakeholders to ensure alignment and effective execution. Documentation of work and attention to detail are essential components of this position. This role has supervisory responsibilities for Scrum Masters across the Avalon IT organization.

This position is eligible for remote work, but regular business travel will be required, including Avalon's corporate office located in Tampa, Florida.

Release Train Engineer – Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Facilitate ART ceremonies: PI Planning (BRP), System Demos, Inspect & Adapt workshops, and Scrum of Scrums.
• Coordinate planning of BRP and other in-person events with partners from HR and external vendors.
• Coach leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters in Lean-Agile practices and mindset.
• Manage and optimize program execution by tracking objectives, dependencies, and risks.
• Drive continuous improvement across the ART by fostering a culture of learning and innovation.
• Communicate with stakeholders to ensure transparency on progress, impediments, and delivery outcomes.
• Develop, roll out, and report on team and release train metrics to measure value delivery and predictability.
• Coordinate cross-team dependencies, facilitate resolution of impediments and prioritization conflicts between Product, Software Architecture, and the business.

Release Train Engineer – Minimum Qualifications:

• Strong knowledge of SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) and Lean-Agile principles.
• Experience in Agile coaching and facilitation across multiple teams.
• Experience in people management and development.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills to influence without authority.
• Background in project/program management or Agile delivery leadership.
• Ability to manage complex dependencies and resolve conflicts constructively.
• Proficiency with Agile tools (e.g., Jira, Rally, Azure DevOps).

Release Train Engineer – Preferred Qualifications:

• SAFe Release Train Engineer certification or equivalent.
• Experience in large-scale Agile transformations.
• Technical background to understand system architecture and integration challenges.
• Strong facilitation skills for large group events and workshops (100+ attendees).