The Airports, Borders, and Security Business Area of Leidos is seeking a Senior Release Train Engineer to help our customer manage the Operations and Sustainment (O&S) of their current persons of interest systems while developing the next generation of cloud-based systems for operation on the customer's high-side networks. This exciting role combines the ability to lead Agile SCRUM development teams as well as applying your extensive technical knowledge to solve real-world problems for our Law Enforcement and Intelligence Community customers. If you are interested in serving in a key personnel role supporting national security while applying your management and technical skills to lead a large, diverse team of developers, then this is the role for you.
Primary Responsibilities- Manages and optimizes the flow of value through the ART and Solution Train using various tools, such as the Program and Solution Kanban and other information radiators.
- Facilitates Program Increment (PI) planning readiness by fostering the preparation of vision and backlogs, and through pre- and post-PI Planning meetings.
- Facilitates the PI planning event.
- Assists tracking the execution of features and capabilities.
- Assists with economic decision-making by facilitating feature and capability estimation by teams and the roll-up to Epics, where necessary.
- Coach leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets.
- Helps manage risks and dependencies.
- Escalates and track impediments.
- Improves the flow of value through value streams using the Continuous Delivery Pipeline and DevOps.
- Facilitates system demos and solution demos.
- Drives relentless improvement via Inspect and Adapt workshops; assesses the agility level of the ART and Solution Train and helps them improve.
Basic Qualifications- Current SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE) Certification
- Minimum of 4 years experience utilizing Jira to track work for the ART.
Preferred Qualifications- Curent SAFe Agilist Certification.
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Original Posting:February 27, 2026
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range:Pay Range $107,900.00 - $195,050.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
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