Release Train Engineer, Commercial Data & Analytics

Join our team at Amgen Capability Center Portugal, the #1 company in Best Workplaces™ (201–500 employees category) by the Great Place to Work Institute. With over 400 talented individuals from more than 40 nationalities, our Lisbon center thrives at the intersection of innovation, excellence, and inspiration. This is your opportunity to explore the future of healthcare through technology and digital innovation, supporting our mission To Serve Patients. 

RELEASE TRAIN ENGINEER, COMMERCIAL DATA & ANALYTICS

At Amgen, Technology isn’t just a support function—it’s a catalyst for discovery, transformation, and real-world impact. Here, your ideas fuel innovation that improves and saves lives of patients in dire need of our medicines. Are you ready to do meaningful work that matters?

LIVE
What you will do

As a Release Train Engineer, Commercial Data & Analytics, you’ll work at the intersection of science, data, and innovation. You’ll collaborate with world-class experts across domains to build high-impact digital solutions that accelerate research, streamline operations, and empower better patient outcomes. 

You will act as a leader and coach who facilitates ART events, processes, and supports teams in delivering value. This role involves facilitating communication and collaboration among teams, ensuring alignment with the program’s vision, managing risks and dependencies, and driving relentless improvement. You will also contribute to the Lean-Agile transformation by coaching leaders, teams, and Scrum Master/Team Coaches on the new mindset and processes, supporting the adaptation of SAFe to the organization’s needs, and helping to standardize and document best practices.

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will:

• Lead and facilitate the PI planning event and ensure strategic and organizational readiness, leadership team preparedness and logistics management for planning readiness 

• Oversee and optimize the flow of value through the Agile Release Train using various tools, such as Program Kanban and other information radiators

• Lead and facilitate agile events and events such as Program Increment (PI) planning, pre and post PI Planning, Solution demos, and iteration planning, to ensure alignment and collaboration across teams

• Provide guidance and support to RTEs, Scrum Masters, and Product Management teams to help them deliver value effectively and adhere to Agile best practices

• Lead and manage product delivery using agile frameworks and techniques. Align with Agile values such as prioritizing individuals and interactions over processes and tools. 

• Lead and facilitate agile events including stand-ups, sprint/PI planning, sprint/PI reviews, retrospectives, demos and backlog refinement meetings to promote team collaboration.

• Advise SAFe events, including PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, and Inspect & Adapt workshops.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify business requirements and develop solutions that meet customer needs.

• Work with Product Owners, Product and Solution Management, and stakeholders to ensure strategy and execution alignment

• Help the scrum teams achieve delivery acceleration focused on business outcomes by reaching higher levels of scrum maturity

• Identify, escalate, and manage risks and dependencies across the ART to ensure that they are addressed in a timely manner

• Coordinate with Services and support to schedule resolution of issues with released products 

• Foster a culture of continuous improvement within the ART by leading retrospectives and encouraging innovation

• Monitor and report on the progress of the ART, ensuring transparency and alignment with solution objectives

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What we expect of you
We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The tech professional we seek is a creative problem-solver and a team player with these qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, IT or a related field.

• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, particularly the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

• Prior experience with Agile project management tools, such as Jira, Confluence and Jira Align.

• Leadership experience, experience in guiding teams through Agile events and ensuring adherence to SAFe practices and behaviors.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and a passion for tackling complex challenges with data.

• Collaborative spirit and effective communication skills to work seamlessly in a cross-functional team. 

• Deep understanding of DevOps and Test Automation Processes in software delivery.

• Workshop facilitation and training experience.

• A passion for applying technology to make a real-world impact.

• Fluency in English.

THRIVE
What you can expect of us
As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also care deeply for our teammates’ well-being and growth.

• Work That Matters – Build tech that accelerates scientific breakthroughs and helps patients worldwide.

• Modern Tech Stack – Cloud-first, automation-focused, AI-powered.

• Global Scale, Agile Mindset – Collaborate across continents while working in nimble, high-impact teams.

• Continuous Learning – Access to certifications, trainings, mentorship, and career mobility.

• Amgen Total Rewards Plan – Comprehensive benefits in healthcare, finance, and well-being.

• Flexibility – Hybrid work model with time split between our Lisbon office and remote work.

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