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Lead Release Train Engineer
Location: US
Job ID: ATR 17807
Job Description
Job Title: Lead Release Train Engineer
Location: Washington D.C. – Hybrid Remote
Eligibility: Candidate must possess an active Secret clearance
Job Description:
Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership and Alignment
- Lead and coach teams at the enterprise level to implement SAFe
practices, working with leadership to ensure strategic alignment
with Agile values.
- Collaborate with senior leadership to guide the organization through
SAFe’s Lean Portfolio Management, ensuring strong alignment between
strategy and execution.
- Enable Lean Budgeting by working with leadership to align financial
management practices with Agile principles.
Program Execution and Coordination
- Manage program execution by acting as a servant leader, ensuring
teams deliver value consistently and efficiently through the program
lifecycle.
- Build and maintain program-level roadmaps, partnering with Product
Management to align with business priorities and long-term
objectives.
- Facilitate Program Increment (PI) Planning, Inspect and Adapt
workshops, and other key SAFe ceremonies to drive alignment across
task orders and delivery teams.
- Coordinate task order activities across teams, acting as the central
point of collaboration for Agile Release Train (ART) activities
across BPA task orders
Integration and Dependency Management
- Oversee task order integration and dependencies, identifying,
monitoring, and managing interdependencies to ensure seamless
delivery of integrated solutions.
- Establish and maintain integration strategies, tools, and processes
for cohesive functionality across systems and deliverables.
- Facilitate cross-task order program alignment by working with task
order leads, stakeholders, and contractors to ensure deliverables
align with overarching program goals.
- Ensure seamless integration testing and delivery of fully
functioning systems across all task orders.
Team Enablement and Development
- Provide hands-on coaching toAgileRelease Trains (ARTs), Product
Managers, and Scrum Masters, fostering continuous improvement and
self-organizing teams.
- Mentor less experienced Agile coaches and Scrum Masters to develop
coaching skills across the organization.
- Train teams on SAFe best practices through workshops and training
sessions to strengthen adherence to core SAFe principles.
- Drive a culture of transparency, accountability, and collaboration,
focusing on building high-performing, self-managing teams
Risk and Impediment Management
- Proactively identify and address risks, impediments, and bottlenecks
that affect the ART’s ability to deliver program objectives.
- Support change management processes by providing leadership to
manage changes across task orders and ensuring alignment with
long-term goals.
Stakeholder and Relationship Management
- Foster relationships with Business Owners to steer decisions and
ensure alignment with organizational objectives.
- Act as a liaison between task orders and enterprise leadership,
communicating progress, risks, and challenges while providing
actionable solutions.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define priorities and allocate
resources across task orders, balancing strategic needs with
delivery capabilities
Governance and Compliance
- Ensure compliance and governance by aligning program execution with
organizational standards, regulatory requirements, and Agile
principles.
- Maintain compliance across task orders to adhere to applicable
standards, policies, and Lean-Agile practices.
Performance and Metrics Tracking
- Establish key metrics to track progress and performance, ensuring
adherence to Agile best practices andSAFeprinciples.
- Conduct Agile maturity assessments periodically to review team
performance and create actionable plans for improvement.
- Track BPA-wide metrics to monitor integration progress, delivery
performance, and alignment with program objectives.
DevOps and Delivery Optimization
- Promote a DevOps culture by fostering continuous delivery pipelines
and automation practices across task orders to ensure consistent
delivery.
- Support value stream delivery by working closely with System
Architects, Product Management, and other key roles to optimize
outcomes.
Minimum/General Experience/Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business, or a related
discipline.
- SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) certification is required.
- 8+ years of experience coaching agile teams in complex, large-scale
environments.
- A minimum of 10 years’ experience in Agile coaching, including
expertise in implementing frameworks likeSAFe, Scrum, Kanban, and
Lean.
- Proven ability to lead enterprise-level agile transformations.
- Deep knowledge of Lean Portfolio Management and Agile Release
Trains.
- Strong proficiency in Agile project management tools (Gitlab, Jira,
Confluence etc).
- Excellent communication and leadership skills, capable of engaging
and influencing senior leadership and cross-functional teams.
Preferred Requirements:
- Extensive experience in coaching senior leadership and teams on
advanced Agile practices, including scaling Agile frameworks across
large and distributed teams.
- Proven track record of successfully leading enterprise-level Agile
transformations, guiding organizations through cultural shifts and
process improvements.
- Ability to coach and mentor other Agile coaches, Scrum Masters, and
product teams, developing a center of excellence for Agile
methodologies within the organization.
- Deep understanding of Agile metrics (e.g., velocity, cycle time,
lead time) and their application in driving team and organizational
performance improvements.
- Experience facilitating large-scale Agile ceremonies such as Program
Increment (PI) Planning, Inspect and Adapt workshops, and
executive-level retrospectives.
- Expertise in change management strategies for large enterprises,
particularly in Agile adoptions, and fostering an environment of
continuous improvement.
- Strong knowledge of Lean-Agile leadership principles, with
experience implementing Lean Portfolio Management and helping
organizations align strategy with execution.
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Job Description
Job Title: Lead Release Train Engineer
Location: Washington D.C. – Hybrid Remote
Eligibility: Candidate must possess an active Secret clearance
Job Description:
Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership and Alignment
- Lead and coach teams at the enterprise level to implement SAFe
practices, working with leadership to ensure strategic alignment
with Agile values.
- Collaborate with senior leadership to guide the organization through
SAFe’s Lean Portfolio Management, ensuring strong alignment between
strategy and execution.
- Enable Lean Budgeting by working with leadership to align financial
management practices with Agile principles.
Program Execution and Coordination
- Manage program execution by acting as a servant leader, ensuring
teams deliver value consistently and efficiently through the program
lifecycle.
- Build and maintain program-level roadmaps, partnering with Product
Management to align with business priorities and long-term
objectives.
- Facilitate Program Increment (PI) Planning, Inspect and Adapt
workshops, and other key SAFe ceremonies to drive alignment across
task orders and delivery teams.
- Coordinate task order activities across teams, acting as the central
point of collaboration for Agile Release Train (ART) activities
across BPA task orders
Integration and Dependency Management
- Oversee task order integration and dependencies, identifying,
monitoring, and managing interdependencies to ensure seamless
delivery of integrated solutions.
- Establish and maintain integration strategies, tools, and processes
for cohesive functionality across systems and deliverables.
- Facilitate cross-task order program alignment by working with task
order leads, stakeholders, and contractors to ensure deliverables
align with overarching program goals.
- Ensure seamless integration testing and delivery of fully
functioning systems across all task orders.
Team Enablement and Development
- Provide hands-on coaching toAgileRelease Trains (ARTs), Product
Managers, and Scrum Masters, fostering continuous improvement and
self-organizing teams.
- Mentor less experienced Agile coaches and Scrum Masters to develop
coaching skills across the organization.
- Train teams on SAFe best practices through workshops and training
sessions to strengthen adherence to core SAFe principles.
- Drive a culture of transparency, accountability, and collaboration,
focusing on building high-performing, self-managing teams
Risk and Impediment Management
- Proactively identify and address risks, impediments, and bottlenecks
that affect the ART’s ability to deliver program objectives.
- Support change management processes by providing leadership to
manage changes across task orders and ensuring alignment with
long-term goals.
Stakeholder and Relationship Management
- Foster relationships with Business Owners to steer decisions and
ensure alignment with organizational objectives.
- Act as a liaison between task orders and enterprise leadership,
communicating progress, risks, and challenges while providing
actionable solutions.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define priorities and allocate
resources across task orders, balancing strategic needs with
delivery capabilities
Governance and Compliance
- Ensure compliance and governance by aligning program execution with
organizational standards, regulatory requirements, and Agile
principles.
- Maintain compliance across task orders to adhere to applicable
standards, policies, and Lean-Agile practices.
Performance and Metrics Tracking
- Establish key metrics to track progress and performance, ensuring
adherence to Agile best practices andSAFeprinciples.
- Conduct Agile maturity assessments periodically to review team
performance and create actionable plans for improvement.
- Track BPA-wide metrics to monitor integration progress, delivery
performance, and alignment with program objectives.
DevOps and Delivery Optimization
- Promote a DevOps culture by fostering continuous delivery pipelines
and automation practices across task orders to ensure consistent
delivery.
- Support value stream delivery by working closely with System
Architects, Product Management, and other key roles to optimize
outcomes.
Minimum/General Experience/Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business, or a related
discipline.
- SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) certification is required.
- 8+ years of experience coaching agile teams in complex, large-scale
environments.
- A minimum of 10 years’ experience in Agile coaching, including
expertise in implementing frameworks likeSAFe, Scrum, Kanban, and
Lean.
- Proven ability to lead enterprise-level agile transformations.
- Deep knowledge of Lean Portfolio Management and Agile Release
Trains.
- Strong proficiency in Agile project management tools (Gitlab, Jira,
Confluence etc).
- Excellent communication and leadership skills, capable of engaging
and influencing senior leadership and cross-functional teams.
Preferred Requirements:
- Extensive experience in coaching senior leadership and teams on
advanced Agile practices, including scaling Agile frameworks across
large and distributed teams.
- Proven track record of successfully leading enterprise-level Agile
transformations, guiding organizations through cultural shifts and
process improvements.
- Ability to coach and mentor other Agile coaches, Scrum Masters, and
product teams, developing a center of excellence for Agile
methodologies within the organization.
- Deep understanding of Agile metrics (e.g., velocity, cycle time,
lead time) and their application in driving team and organizational
performance improvements.
- Experience facilitating large-scale Agile ceremonies such as Program
Increment (PI) Planning, Inspect and Adapt workshops, and
executive-level retrospectives.
- Expertise in change management strategies for large enterprises,
particularly in Agile adoptions, and fostering an environment of
continuous improvement.
- Strong knowledge of Lean-Agile leadership principles, with
experience implementing Lean Portfolio Management and helping
organizations align strategy with execution.
First Name
Required
Last Name
Required
Email Address
Required
Phone Number
CountryNoneAfghanistanÅland IslandsAlbaniaAlgeriaAmerican SamoaAndorraAngolaAnguillaAntarcticaAntigua and BarbudaArgentinaArmeniaArubaAustraliaAustriaAzerbaijanBahamasBahrainBangladeshBarbadosBelarusBelgiumBelizeBeninBermudaBhutanBoliviaBonaire, Sint Eustatius and SabaBosnia and HerzegovinaBotswanaBouvet IslandBrazilBritish Indian Ocean TerritoryBritish Virgin IslandsBruneiBulgariaBurkina FasoBurundiCabo VerdeCambodiaCameroonCanadaCayman IslandsCentral African RepublicChadChileChinaChristmas IslandCocos (Keeling) IslandsColombiaComorosCongoCongo-BrazzavilleCook IslandsCosta RicaCôte d'IvoireCroatiaCubaCuraçaoCyprusCzechiaDemocratic People's Republic of KoreaDenmarkDjiboutiDominicaDominican RepublicEcuadorEgyptEl SalvadorEquatorial GuineaEritreaEstoniaEthiopiaFalkland IslandsFaroe IslandsFederated States of MicronesiaFijiFinlandFranceFrench GuianaFrench PolynesiaFrench Southern TerritoriesGabonGambiaGeorgiaGermanyGhanaGibraltarGreeceGreenlandGrenadaGuadeloupeGuamGuatemalaGuernseyGuineaGuinea-BissauGuyanaHaitiHeard Island and McDonald IslandsHondurasHong KongHungaryIcelandIndiaIndonesiaIraqIrelandIslamic Republic of IranIsle of ManIsraelItalyJamaicaJapanJerseyJordanKazakhstanKenyaKiribatiKuwaitKyrgyzstanLao People's Democratic RepublicLatviaLebanonLesothoLiberiaLibyaLiechtensteinLithuaniaLuxembourgMacaoMacedoniaMadagascarMalawiMalaysiaMaldivesMaliMaltaMarshall IslandsMartiniqueMauritaniaMauritiusMayotteMexicoMonacoMongoliaMontenegroMontserratMoroccoMozambiqueMyanmarNamibiaNauruNepalNetherlandsNew CaledoniaNew ZealandNicaraguaNigerNigeriaNiueNorfolk IslandNorthern Mariana IslandsNorwayOmanPakistanPalauPanamaPapua New GuineaParaguayPeruPhilippinesPitcairnPolandPortugalPuerto RicoQatarRepublic of KoreaRepublic of MoldovaReunionRomaniaRussiaRwandaSaint BarthelemySaint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da CunhaSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint MartinSaint Pierre and MiquelonSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSamoaSan MarinoSao Tome and PrincipeSaudi ArabiaSenegalSerbiaSeychellesSierra LeoneSingaporeSint Maarten (Dutch part)SlovakiaSloveniaSolomon IslandsSomaliaSouth AfricaSouth Georgia and the South Sandwich IslandsSouth SudanSpainSri LankaState of PalestineSudanSurinameSvalbard and Jan MayenSwazilandSwedenSwitzerlandSyriaTaiwanTajikistanThailandTimor-LesteTogoTokelauTongaTrinidad and TobagoTunisiaTurkeyTurkmenistanTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluU.S. Virgin IslandsUgandaUkraineUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited Republic of TanzaniaUnited StatesUnited States Minor Outlying IslandsUruguayUzbekistanVanuatuVaticanVenezuelaVietnamWallis and FutunaWestern SaharaYemenZambiaZimbabwe
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