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Release Train Engineer – FDA Food Safety Data Exchange
Location
Maryland
Posted
1 day ago
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Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Release Train Engineer – FDA Food Safety Data Exchange
Precise Software Solutions, Inc.
• The RTE leads all Program Increment planning events, coordinating capacity, sequencing, and feature prioritization across the ART in alignment with program management, customer direction and COR guidance. • The RTE maintains the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) on a weekly basis, manages release-level Project Process Agreements (PPAs) in accordance with FDA EPLC requirements, and ensures all sprint plans reflect realistic team capacity and accurate task-level estimates. • The RTE prepares and maintains release plan summaries, JIRA/ALM release plans mapped to sprint-level effort, and sprint status dashboards for review by the FDA Government IT PM. • The RTE serves as the primary integration point across all internal and external teams with dependencies on the program. • The RTE proactively identifies cross-team blockers, facilitates resolution, and escalates impediments to executive leadership when necessary. • The RTE drives participation from all impacted teams in end-to-end integration, regression, and UAT testing cycles for every FSDX release. • The RTE facilitates all ART-level ceremonies, including PI planning, System Demos, Inspect and Adapt workshops, and Scrum of Scrums. • The RTE coaches individual Scrum Masters and team-level Agile practices, fosters a culture of inspect and adapt, and drives measurable velocity improvements across the ART. • The RTE tracks and reports sprint burn rates, planned versus actual story point delivery, and release velocity trends, escalating potential overages to the Government IT PM immediately upon detection. • The RTE supports the Project Manager in preparing bi-weekly status reports, Monthly Status Reports (MSRs), and Monthly Financial Reports (MFRs) with accurate sprint metrics, burn rates, and risk indicators. • The RTE maintains the program-level Risk Management Plan, the RACI chart, and the Change Request Log, ensuring all items are tracked through closure and reflected in subsequent governance reporting. • The RTE maintains the program risk register and leads proactive risk identification, prioritization, and mitigation planning across all workstreams. • The RTE facilitates cross-team risk reviews during weekly status meetings and ensures newly identified risks are surfaced to FDA stakeholders immediately. • The RTE facilitates the integration of agency-approved AI tools and DevSecOps practices into the ART's delivery pipeline, supporting the program's commitment to leveraging AI for development efficiency, automated testing, intelligent workflow optimization, and documentation.
Job Requirements
- Minimum 5 years of experience in Agile program delivery, including at least 3 years in a RTE, Agile Coach, or Senior Scrum Master role on a program with multiple concurrent Agile teams.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a related field (Master's degree preferred).
- Demonstrated experience leading Agile Release Trains (ARTs) using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe); SAFe Release Train Engineer (SAFe RTE) or SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) certification required.
- Proven experience delivering complex federal IT programs with multiple external team dependencies, regulatory compliance requirements, and formal governance processes (EPLC, EVM, CPIC, or equivalent).
- Experience managing program-level release planning, IMS development, sprint tracking, and burn rate reporting using JIRA, Confluence, and/or ALM tools.
- Strong facilitation, conflict resolution, and servant leadership skills; ability to align stakeholders across government, contractor, and state partner organizations.
- Demonstrated experience with risk management, change management, and dependency tracking in a multi-team program environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to prepare and present executive-level briefing materials and status reports.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Health Benefits (Medical, Dental and Vision)
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) & Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Retirement Plan with 4% match and discretionary match at year end
- Paid Time Off (PTO): 15 days of PTO accrued per year; 7 holidays+ 3 Floating holidays; 2 Innovation days (paid training days)
- Short Term and Long-Term Disability
- Paid Parental Leave
- Paid Jury Duty leave
- Life and AD&D Insurance
- Critical Illness Insurance
- Training and Development
- Wellness Incentives & Discount programs
- Employee Referral Program
- Annual Charity Donation Match
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