As an Release Train Engineer, you will...
Release Management
- Lead integrated release planning and execution across Agile teams.
- Coordinate release readiness, deployment, and production support.
- Manage release schedules, dependencies, risks, and cross-team alignment.
- Facilitate release planning and Go/No-Go reviews.
- Drive CI/CD, release automation, and continuous improvement.
- Communicate release status, metrics, and risks to leadership and customers.
- Ensure compliance with configuration, cybersecurity, and change management processes.
- Manage release documentation, approvals, and implementation activities.
- Serve as Scrum Master for one or more Agile teams.
- Facilitate Scrum ceremonies and Agile planning activities.
- Coach teams on Agile best practices and continuous improvement.
- Remove impediments and mitigate delivery risks.
- Partner with Product Managers to prioritize and maintain healthy backlogs.
- Foster collaboration across development, test, security, and operations.
- Track sprint metrics, velocity, and team health.
- Promote transparency, accountability, and delivery excellence.
Program Leadership
- Coordinate cross-team dependencies and program execution.
- Support PI Planning, release forecasting, and roadmap alignment.
- Identify program risks and drive mitigation strategies.
- Deliver executive status reporting and release dashboards.
- Advance Agile maturity and process improvement initiatives.
- Mentor Scrum Masters and Agile teams to improve delivery outcomes.
Release Train Engineer Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field and 8-12 years of prior relevant experience or Master’s with 6-10 years of prior relevant experience. May possess a Doctorate in a technical domain.
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Advanced CSM, or Certified Scrum Professional (CSP).
- 10+ years of experience supporting software development programs.
- 5+ years of Release Management experience within Agile software development environments.
- 5+ years serving as a Scrum Master for Agile development teams.
- Experience managing releases across multiple Scrum teams.
- Strong understanding of Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and Lean methodologies.
- Experience supporting DevSecOps and CI/CD environments.
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, or similar Agile lifecycle management tools.
- Excellent facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience supporting DoD or Intelligence Community programs.
Additional Skills We Would Like to see...
- SAFe Scrum Master (SSM), SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE), SAFe Agilist certification.
- PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) and/or PMP certification.
- Experience with GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub Enterprise, or other CI/CD platforms.
- Experience with Kubernetes, cloud-native technologies, or containerized deployments.
- Experience supporting mission systems within the Intelligence Community.
- Experience with scaled Agile frameworks and multi-team release coordination.