Release Train Engineer

Maximus TCS (Technology and Consulting Services) Internal Job Profile Code: TCS243, T5, Band 8

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Lead SAFe agile transformation initiatives, collaborating with senior leadership to define strategy and drive cultural change across teams.

- Coach and mentor teams and leaders in Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and Lean practices to foster continuous improvement and self-organization.

- Facilitate Scrum of Scrums, agile ceremonies, workshops, and training sessions to support adoption and alignment across value streams.

- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to prioritize backlogs, align deliverables to business goals, and ensure quality product releases.

- Optimize the flow of value through release trains by identifying process inefficiencies, removing blockers, and driving automation improvements.

- Work with Scrum Masters and cross-functional teams to estimate work, improve delivery processes, and ensure consistent execution across sprints.

- Analyze test results, monitor agile metrics (e.g., velocity, cycle time), and support defect management to maintain high-quality outputs.

- Lead continuous improvement efforts post-release by recommending enhancements to lifecycle processes and engineering practices.

- Coordinate with the Release Manager to manage calendars, track program increments, and ensure seamless release planning and execution.

- Act as a change agent, championing agile principles and encouraging collaboration, innovation, and technical excellence throughout the organization.

Job-Specific Minimum Requirements:

- Active Secret clearance is required.

- Due to contract requirements, only US Citizens can be considered.

Candidates with dual citizenship cannot be considered.

- 12+ years of relevant experience; qualifying education may substitute for up to 4 years of experience.

- Certified in an Agile framework such as SAFe RTE Certification

- Working experience in defining acceptance criteria and coordinating and executing acceptance testing

- Working experience with DevOps/DevSecOps and Continuous delivery pipeline

- Hands-on experience with process, and business and systems analysis to develop analysis of alternatives (AoA), process improvement documents, design documentation, and creating the associated presentations to brief results

- Experience working with multiple teams and coordinating various integration projects

- Demonstrated initiative and ability to start, develop, and complete short and long-term projects

- Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness in the implementation of project specifications and design requirements

- Experience with PI Planning and scrum ceremonies

- Experience with Agile testing, establishing IT testing frameworks, that include automation best practices

- This contract supports systems that require 24x7x365 uptime.

Candidates must be willing and able to meet recall requirements, including participation in a rotational on-call...