Agile Release Train Engineer (Experienced and Senior)

Job Description

At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that’s welcoming, respectful and inclusive, with great opportunity for professional growth. Find your future with us.

The Boeing Company is currently seeking a highly motivated Agile - Release Train Engineer (RTE) (Experienced or Senior) to become part of a large Air Dominance Division Mission Systems Software team using Agile in Berkeley, MO.

This position will lead and/or support an agile organization to implement new software capabilities within the platform as defined by a capability roadmap. The organization is responsible for the full lifecycle of software development including requirements, design, implementation, and testing for mission systems.

The agile leader will be a servant leader and coach who oversees and optimizes the flow of value on the program using various tools including Jira and Confluence. The responsibilities of this position include: facilitating workshops as needed, escalate impediments, manage risk, help ensure value delivery, and drive relentless improvement. This leader will also coach leaders and teams in new processes and mindsets and will help sustain and relentlessly improve the Agile execution on the program.  

The candidate must have a solid grasp of how to scale Lean and Agile practices, and understand the unique opportunities and challenges associated with facilitating and continuously aligning a large organization with multiple stakeholders.

Position Responsibilities:  

• Coaches’ leaders and teams in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets

• Drives relentless improvement and assess the agility level of the organization and help them improve

• Fosters preparation of Vision, Objectives and Program Backlogs

• Ensures backlogs are managed in accordance with defined standards

• Tracks the execution of features and capabilities

• Facilitates roadmap development

• Supports inter- and intra-team dependency mapping

• Prepares for and facilitates quarterly planning and execution of the plan

• Encourages cross-functional collaboration across the organization

• Works with Product Management, Product Owners, Scrum Masters and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment

• Help manage risks and dependencies

• Escalate and track impediments

• Ensure standards are established and followed

• Monitor and improve metrics to track and improve the flow of value

This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will be required to work onsite at one of the listed location options.  

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/ Experience):  

• This position requires the ability to obtain a US Security Clearance for which the US Government requires US Citizenship as a condition of employment (An interim and/or final U.S. Secret Clearance Post-Start may be required)

• Ability to obtain access to Special Access Programs (SAP)

• 5+ years of experience with Scaled Agile Framework or Agile Methodologies

• 1+ year of experience in a leadership role

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience): 

• Associate degree or higher

• Level 4: 9 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience

• Agile/SAFe training and/or certification, for example:

  • SAFe Program Consultant (SPC)

  • SAFe Release Train Engineer Certification (RTE)

  • SAFe Scrum Master (SSM)

  • Project Management Institute- Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)

• Familiarity with Jira and Confluence

• Critical thinking skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Conflict of Interest:

Successful candidates for this job must satisfy the Company’s Conflict of Interest (COI) assessment process.

Drug Free Workplace:

Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.

Pay & Benefits:  

At Boeing, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities. 

The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of