Systems Engineer (RTE)

System Engineer: RTE

As an Experienced Release Train Engineer on this program your responsibilities will include the following:

• The Systems Engineer will support the NGA Integrated Office of Analysis (IPA) in creating and maintaining accurate records in JIRA and Confluence of past, existing and planned development work in the form of record types (Solution Train Epics, Development Capability, and SAFe Features) defined with the current version of the NGA Systems Engineering Plan (SEP).
• Ensures all elements of the record types defined in NGA SEP taxonomy is linked correctly in parent-child relationships and that all dependencies are reflected in the appropriate JIRA fields, along with the correct Tags and Labels for each record.
• Creates and maintains documentation detailing all dependencies and inter-relationships between development activities/release trains and other-than release trains. Maintaining awareness, tracking, and coordination of these inter-dependencies and required capabilities is critical to overall success. 
• Ensures that all team members operate on a set of common principles: a fixed schedule, an increment every two weeks, a common PI length, a known velocity using SAFe Core Values, face-to-face PI planning, a demonstrated capability at the end of each development segment, a well understood and consistent cadence and monitoring of all testing schedules.
• Creates and maintains documentation detailing all dependencies and inter-relationships between development activities/release trains and other-than release trains. Maintaining awareness, tracking, and coordination of these inter-dependencies and required capabilities is critical to overall success. 
• Ensure associated risks and opportunities are entered and tracked in the Integrated Program Office of Analysis (IPA) Risk and Opportunities Management Board (ROMB)
• Coordinates with Product Owners and Feature Support Engineers and schedule/conduct Release Train Management (RTM) meetings and review/approval boards for each development cycle including Sprints and Program Increments. These boards will be required for preparing and orchestrating features for future execution and demonstrating capability for those features that have already been accomplished and need Government approval prior to the next step in fielding new capability. 
• Coordinates with other Agency’s capabilities and offices where we are leveraging their existing services and adding capability to their baseline. To this end, the Contractor shall support all management activities to synchronize development activity with the other Agency’s Program Office and monitor the status of capability backlogs, prioritization, and successful uploads of RTM capabilities to the Agency’s operational instance.
• Ensures all architecture and other system documentation is captured in a standardized and available format for supported release trains
• Works at the RTM level to support all Engineering requirements for that particular RTM scope.
• Works with other system engineers under other Release Trains and vendor engineers, along with Government Mission and Product owners to ensure accurate translation of requirements into Program Epics and Features.
• Have experience and understand the latest version of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) to support the customer organization implement Agile practices across their enterprise.
• Expert user of Jira and Confluence to include the ability to develop and create dashboards and visualizations using the Jira Query Language (JQL).

Clearance Required

• TS/SCI

Location

• Springfield, Virginia

• Potential CONUS travel