Job description
Eagle Harbor Solutions, a Koniag Government Services company, is seeking an experienced
Release Train Engineer to join a development team supporting both established projects and building applications from the ground up. The ideal candidate is an experienced leader and team player that is passionate about technology and committed to lifelong learning, possessing the ability to apply their technical knowledge, skills, and experience to solve complex/real-world problems.
Ability to obtain a Public Trust Clearance to support
EHS and our government customer.
This position is Remote.
We offer competitive compensation and an extraordinary benefits package including health, dental and vision insurance, 401K with company matching, flexible spending accounts, paid holidays, three weeks paid time off, and more.
Essential Functions, Responsibilities & Duties may include, but are not limited to:
We offer competitive compensation and an extraordinary benefits package including health, dental and vision insurance, 401K with company matching, flexible spending accounts, paid holidays, three weeks paid time off, and more.
Essential Functions, Responsibilities & Duties may include, but are not limited to:
- Provides overall direction and 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 continuously improve. Drive delivery and 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 team in self-organization; encourages and motivates team to focus on iteration goals. Helps the team 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
- Establish and maintain close, collaborative working relationships with and between workstream leads, team members and stakeholders to provide transparency and create accountability.
- Establish and maintain close, collaborative working relationship with and between individual execution teams, cross team collaboration, best practices, and tighter alignment in purpose
Required Skills and Competencies
- Understands and can manage organizational resources, priorities, business objectives and policies; working in a matrix environment to meet workstream timelines and goals.
- Experience and use of agile principles and practices. Experience in business analysis, project management, product management and product development. Demonstrated coaching experience (effective at getting the best out of people, drive people to their best performance, empowerment, and motivation). Excellent communication, collaboration, leadership and conflict resolution skills. Experience using tools that measure and report on team performance, backlog health and continuous improvement.
- Individual contributor with comprehensive knowledge of agile principles and practices
- Ability to execute highly complex specialized projects; adapts precedent and may make significant departures from traditional approaches to develop, identify, and embrace new solutions
- Leads by example; providing support and mentoring as needed to ensure sufficient skill, knowledge and effectiveness in the workstream development process
- Adept experience in leading and influencing teams and key stakeholders
- Executive management level presentation skills
- Entirely self-directed, can solve business problems from inception to implementation without explicit direction
- Creative, flexible, and willing to continuously change, evolve, and improve workstream development processes
- Clear leader in the most complex and broadest scope of emerging technology and business topics
- Demonstrated enterprise-level collaboration and system/business architecture understanding skilled at aligning opportunities with solution options
- Participates in key enterprise decisions and technical direction, including governing standards and operating practices
Education and Experience:
Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
Working Environment & Conditions
This job operates in a professional office environment and has a noise level of mostly low to moderate. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. This position is primarily indoors, consistent with a standard office position and has a noise level of mostly low to moderate. The incumbent is required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. The workload may require the incumbent to sit for extended periods of time. The incumbent must be able to read, do simple math calculations and withstand moderate amounts of stress. The incumbent must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 lbs. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy
The company is an equal opportunity employer. The company shall not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity (except where gender is a bona fide occupational qualification), national origin, age, disability, military/veteran status, marital status, genetic information or any other factor protected by law. We are committed to equal employment opportunity in all decisions related to employment, promotion, wages, benefits and all other privileges, terms and conditions of employment.
The company is an equal opportunity employer. The company shall not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity (except where gender is a bona fide occupational qualification), national origin, age, disability, military/veteran status, marital status, genetic information or any other factor protected by law. We are committed to equal employment opportunity in all decisions related to employment, promotion, wages, benefits and all other privileges, terms and conditions of employment.
The company is dedicated to seeking all qualified applicants. If you require an accommodation to navigate or to apply to a position on our website, please contact Heaven Wood via e-mail at accommodations@koniag-gs.com or by calling 703-488-9377 to request accommodations.
Koniag Government Services (KGS) is an Alaska Native Owned corporation supporting the values and traditions of our native communities through an agile employee and corporate culture that delivers Enterprise Solutions, Professional Services and Operational Management to Federal Government Agencies. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Koniag, we apply our proven commercial solutions to a deep knowledge of Defense and Civilian missions to provide forward leaning technical, professional, and operational solutions. KGS enables successful mission outcomes for our customers through solution-oriented business partnerships and a commitment to exceptional service delivery. We ensure long-term success with a continuous improvement approach while balancing the collective interests of our customers, employees, and native communities. For more information, please visit www.koniag-gs.com
EOE Minorities/Female/Protected Veterans/Disabled. Shareholder Preference in accordance with Public Law 88-352
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