R&D Sr Project Manager/Release Train Engineer

Eresearchtechnology - Remote, OR

Full-time - Senior

Remote, OR

11-50 employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Agile Release Train Engineer (RTE) at Clario is responsible for driving and enabling the delivery workstream for the eCOA business line. This high-visibility role involves defining, documenting, and managing complex R&D projects while enforcing standards of practice and leading efforts to adopt industry-standard process frameworks and tools. The RTE will optimize value delivery, facilitate continuous improvement, and support R&D Portfolio Management by developing and evaluating metrics and business cases for R&D projects.

Responsibilities

• Drive organizational structures to optimize value delivery and facilitate continuous improvement efforts.
• Manage and coach the Agile Release Train (ART) as the Release Train Engineer (RTE) in compliance with SAFe responsibilities.
• Identify, assess, and manage risks to project success, ensuring realistic plans and effective stakeholder communication.
• Adopt appropriate project management methods and tools, following predictive or adaptive approaches.
• Ensure quality reviews meet established schedules and procedures.
• Manage the change control procedure to ensure project deliverables meet standards for cost, timescale, compliance, and resource budgets.
• Provide effective leadership to the project team and take action when team performance deviates from agreed tolerances.
• Support the provision of portfolio, program, and project support, advising on available standards, procedures, methods, tools, and techniques.
• Evaluate project and/or program performance and recommend necessary changes.
• Create the business readiness plan considering IT deployment, data migration, and capability deployment.
• Determine readiness levels of business users regarding upcoming changes and implement action plans to close readiness gaps.
• Identify and monitor measures and mechanisms for benefit measurement.

Requirements

• BA, BS or equivalent degree.
• 10+ years' experience managing the building and delivery of scalable, high-performance, reliable, highly available distributed software systems.
• 10+ years' experience gathering and documenting technical requirements in a regulated software development organization.
• 10+ years' experience managing a cross-functional matrix of product management, engineering leadership, and IT resources.
• Basic experience in GxP documentation, especially in project initialization and engineering documentation.
• Proven ability to effectively manage projects using modern project management tools and techniques.
• Experience reporting project status to and taking direction from executive leadership.

Nice-to-haves

• PMP certification preferred.
• SAFe RTE certification or equivalent preferred.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary plus Annual bonus target.
• Excellent On-Boarding plan.
• Comprehensive Benefits Package.