Agile Release Train Engineer at Raytheon

Release Train Engineer

This role supports the Systems, Software, and Integration & Test Engineering departments. These departments provide subject matter expertise for concept development, architectural design, requirements generation & flow-down, modeling and simulation, systems analysis, software development, integration, test, and evaluation of world-class, Missile Defense & Sensor Systems to be achieved through our people, processes, technology, and performance.

This is an onsite role in Woburn, MA.

What You Will Do

• As a Release Train Engineer (RTE), you will be working as part of the leadership team of an agile engineering team alongside the Chief Product Owner (CPO) and Cross Product Team (CPT) leads.
• The RTE is a servant-based leader and coach for the ART.
• Identify and escalate blockers to upper-level leadership, facilitate barrier removal for the ART.
• Improve team agile execution by implementing process improvement opportunities and data driven decisions for better performance.
• Ensure that the agile teams follow established processes and agile methodologies.
• Schedule and drive coordination of agile team scrum masters (Scrum of Scrums).
• Ensure team product owners are establishing effective scope definitions, including clear acceptance criteria for team products and services.
• Schedule and facilitate increment planning and review events in a scaled agile team environment.
• Ensure team sprint plans and day-to-day execution are aligned with program and customer priorities.
• Partner closely with the key stakeholders to ensure on time delivery of team products and services that meet agreed acceptance criteria.
• Partner closely with the Cross Product Team leads on staffing decisions and rotations.
• Identify and track internal and external dependencies required to deliver products and services.
• Coach Agile team execution processes and mentor team agile leaders.

Qualifications You Must Have

• Typically requires a Bachelor's in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and 8 years of prior relevant experience unless prohibited by local laws/regulations.
• Experience in the field of Engineering, including any of the following: System Requirements definition and analysis, System Test and Analysis, Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Software Development, Software Test and Analysis working with MATLAB, C/C++, Ada, Java or DOORS.
• Experience with Agile principles and methodologies.
• Ability to obtain U.S. government issued Interim Secret security clearance is required prior to start date. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Qualifications We Prefer

• SAFe Scrum Master, Release Train Engineer certification or related industry certification.
• Experience on XBR, AN/TPY-2, COBRA DANE, QEWR, UEWR, SRP or radar data processing domain knowledge.
• Ability to communicate and coordinate across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Experience with agile management and engineering tools (Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Azure, Jenkins, Coverity, etc.).
• Prior experience as a Scrum Master or Product Owner.
• Running or attending Agile ceremonies (daily scrum, monthly planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives).
• Previous software development experience, requirements development and analysis or system integration and testing.
• Experience working on or leading a multi-disciplinary team.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to interact positively with coworkers, suppliers, management, and customers in a team environment.
• Experience contributing in a team environment for the purpose of developing creative solutions to technical problems.
• Project management experience.
• Ability to make data-driven decisions in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with time-critical requirements and competing priorities.
• Team leadership experience in a scaled agile environment, preferably using Scaled Scrum or Kanban frameworks.