Release Train Engineer

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Currently, ManTech is seeking a motivated, career and customer-oriented Release Train Engineer to join our team in the Herndon, VA area.

As a Release Train Engineer, you will have the opportunity to support your Agile Teams by providing coaching and guidance. You will be expected to lead by example, challenge the status quo and promote an environment of continuous improvement, experimentation, and innovation. With your excellent listening skills, facilitation, and conflict-resolution skills you will help ManTech continue to adopt work methods required to properly adopt Agile at scale.

Key Responsibilities:

• Facilitate Program Increment (PI) planning, visualize and manage the flow of features and capabilities from ideation to analysis, implementation, and release.

• Outline business and technical goals that development teams intend to achieve and the relationship to program objectives.

• Coach the ART on Agile / SAFE Principles and mindset, course correct any Anti-Patterns.

• Manage and coordinate large and complex development projects, facilitate synchronization events (i.e. meetings and processes) and coordinate between cross functional teams.

• Help manage risk and dependencies between teams. Escalate and track impediments. Provide input on resourcing to address critical bottlenecks.

• Facilitate system demos that provide integrated view of new features for the iteration delivered by all the teams on the ART.

• Represent the development teams in front of senior leadership to provide status update, acquire feedback or approval.

• Perform a critical role in the data driven decision making process. Create and interpret metrics to guide the organization to continuously improve. Analyze data used to track key performance indexes providing insights and context to the results.

• Create an environment of continuous improvement by facilitating Inspect and Adapt workshops.

• Initiate strategic efforts to enhance product development workflow and process.

• Stay abreast of industry trends, new technology and competitive products.

• Create an environment of psychological safety, coach and mentor less experienced engineers and actively support communities of practice.

Minimum Required Skills and Experience

• Lean-Agile Leadership Mindset and able to coach agile principles.

• BS degree preferably in Computer Science or some other IT related discipline.

• Minimum 7+ years of experience supporting software development lifecycle.

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple and significantly complex projects and assignments in a production environment with a high level of autonomy and accountability for results.

• A proactive and empowering nature that makes others want to follow your lead

• High level of interpersonal skills to work effectively with others, motivate employees, and drive for results.

• Skilled at resolving interpersonal conflicts and overall helping people communicate effectively.

• Comfortable with data analysis, and recommending solutions or improvements based on data.

• Proven ability to deal with ambiguity, embrace changes and challenges.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrates coordination and project management skills with at least 2 years' experience in leading cross-functional development work in the production environment.

• SCRUM and Release Train Engineer (RTE) training with at least 3 years of experience in Agile Software Development

• High organizational agility and ability of representing the product development team in communication with the senior leadership

• Familiar with data mining, analysis, and visualization techniques.

• Comfortable with ambiguous assignments and capable of developing strategies with minimum guidance.

• High level of oral and written communication skills.

• MS in Engineering in the disciplinary areas such as Computer science or MBA.

• 10+ years' experience supporting software development lifecycle.

Security Clearance Requirement:

• Active and current TS/SCI clearance.

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