ASRC Federal is seeking a Release Train Engineer to support an upcoming USDA contract.  

 

Location: Remote opportunity

Clearance: Public Trust - must be a US Citizen or Lawful Permanent Resident and be able to successfully complete a government issues background investigation.

 

Responsibilities:

Provides overall guidance for workstream team to adhere to agile principles and practices. Arrange, facilitate and schedule meetings, demos and decision-making processes to ensure that the proper collaborative process is in use. This includes team backlog grooming, estimating and sizing efforts, program increment planning, standups, and retrospectives. Works with workstream leads, stakeholders, and team members to shepherd Product Increment (PI) delivery and drive continuous improvement by utilizing feedback and metrics to identify areas of opportunity. Facilitates transparency by escalating impediments and shares progress by the team to the appropriate channels. Provides regular and open communication across the workstream to all stakeholders for transparency and awareness of progress and impediments. Eliminates impediments by actively addressing issues so the team can remain focused on achieving the objectives of the workstream. Actively engaged in defining and managing action items, identifying issues and risks, adjusting scope, and identifying tasks necessary to complete planned work. Guides teams in self-organization; encourages and motivates teams to focus on iteration goals. Helps teams improve on their journey towards continuous delivery, which includes practices including continuous integration, continuous deployment and designing the solutions for release. Guides solution evaluation activities across the automation capabilities to identify suitability and feasibility of automation objectives while aligning opportunities with the most relevant customer solution sets. Establishes and maintains close, collaborative working relationships with and between workstream leads, team members and stakeholders to provide transparency and create accountability. Establishes and maintains close, collaborative working relationship with and between individual execution teams, cross team collaboration, best practices, and tighter alignment in purpose.