Agile Release Manager – TS/SCI CI Poly

Agile Release Manager – TS/SCI CI Poly

Department: Government Customer - Chantilly
Location: Chantilly, VA

ACTIVE TS/SCI CLEARANCE WITH CI POLY REQUIRED TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION

Job Responsibilities

• Provide Agile release management and coordination support for the development, integration, testing, deployment, and transition of complex enterprise systems and mission-critical capabilities.

• Support the planning, scheduling, coordination, and execution of software and system releases across multiple Agile development teams and technical workstreams.

• Develop, maintain, and communicate release roadmaps, schedules, milestones, and delivery plans to ensure alignment with program objectives and operational requirements.

• Coordinate with Agile development teams, product owners, systems engineers, program managers, and government stakeholders to establish release priorities and delivery expectations.

• Support Agile planning activities, including increment planning, backlog reviews, technical coordination meetings, and solution demonstrations.

• Monitor release progress, development dependencies, technical milestones, and integration activities to identify potential schedule conflicts and delivery risks.

• Coordinate cross-team activities to ensure software development, system integration, testing, and deployment efforts remain synchronized.

• Support release readiness assessments, technical reviews, integration testing, verification, validation, and operational acceptance activities.

• Review release documentation, test plans, demonstration results, defect remediation plans, and readiness artifacts to assess deployment preparedness.

• Track software defects, integration issues, technical risks, and release dependencies, coordinating corrective actions with appropriate stakeholders.

• Support configuration management, release baseline tracking, change requests, and change control processes throughout the development lifecycle.

• Coordinate the transition of new and updated capabilities into operational environments, ensuring compliance with established system architectures and mission requirements.

• Monitor release performance metrics, delivery schedules, testing outcomes, and capability readiness to identify opportunities for process improvements.

• Support the development and maintenance of release management procedures, technical documentation, status reports, and program briefings.

• Facilitate communication among engineering teams, developers, acquisition personnel, and operational stakeholders to ensure timely delivery of approved capabilities.

• Identify and recommend improvements to release planning, development coordination, integration processes, and operational transition activities.

Required Qualifications

• Experience supporting Agile release management, software delivery coordination, systems integration, or enterprise IT program execution.

• Knowledge of Agile development methodologies and release management processes, including iterative development, planning, testing, and deployment activities.

• Experience developing, maintaining, or coordinating release schedules, delivery milestones, technical dependencies, and deployment plans.

• Familiarity with Agile planning activities, including increment planning, backlog management, development reviews, and solution demonstrations.

• Experience coordinating system integration, testing, verification, validation, and release readiness activities.

• Understanding of software development lifecycle processes, configuration management, change control, and technical baseline management.

• Experience identifying release risks, tracking defects, managing dependencies, and coordinating corrective actions across technical teams.

• Ability to assess release progress, evaluate operational readiness, and communicate technical issues affecting delivery schedules.

• Experience collaborating with Agile development teams, systems engineers, product owners, program managers, and government stakeholders.

• Strong organizational, analytical, problem-solving, technical documentation, and communication skills.

• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with a Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph.

Desired Qualifications

• Junior to senior positions available, depending on experience.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Business, or a related field.

• Experience supporting Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community (IC), or other federal government Agile development and release management programs.

• Knowledge of Agile frameworks and practices, including Scrum, Kanban, or the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

• Experience using Agile planning and release tracking tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or equivalent platforms.

• Familiarity with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), DevSecOps, automated deployment pipelines, and software release automation.

• Experience coordinating releases across multiple development teams, enterprise applications, or interconnected mission systems.

• Knowledge of system readiness reviews, operational transition processes, release governance, and configuration control boards.

• Familiarity with hybrid and multi-cloud environments, enterprise integration, and software deployment practices.

• Experience supporting Agile metrics, release performance reporting, dependency management, and continuous process improvement.

• Professional certifications such as SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Project Management Professional (PMP), or equivalent Agile or program management credentials.

TENICA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.