Release Train Engineer (RTE) Senior

***THIS ROLE IS NOT OPEN FOR SPONSORED CANDIDATES AT THIS TIME ***THIS ROLE IS FOR A DIRECT CLIENT*** ***CANDIDATES WITHIN 25 MILES FROM MCLEAN, VA ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY*** ***THE ROLE REQUIRES THE ENGINEER TO BE ONSITE 3 DAYS A WEEK*** Release Train Engineer (RTE) Duration: 6 months.

CTH (conversion can happen as early as 3 months). Location: Onsite (Hybrid) in McLean, VA on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday Years of experience: 5+ Must Haves: A minimum of 5 years of delivery experience, this can be a mix of different areas of experience - management, development, analysis, etc.

Demonstrated leadership with strong interpersonal skills.

An ideal candidate would have the ability to multitask and to communicate effectively across various teams and/or business areas.

Responsibilities: Management and Support of Agile Delivery teams supporting and enhancing products on platforms using Java, Spring Boot, Angular, WebLogic and AWS.

Build strong partnerships with application teams, business areas, stakeholders, and technical support teams to help drive completion of key delivery activities.

Support and help manage application and product deployments from initiation through delivery.

Communicating to internal team members and partners on delivery and support topics at the technical and/or functional level appropriate for the situation.

Guidance on application of software development principles, theories, concepts, and techniques.

Understand product/business needs and actively help facilitate and participate in grooming sessions.

Support activities related to design of Applications based on groomed features and defined architecture.

Ensure teams comply with all organizational standards related to delivery including coding, security, infrastructure, incident management etc.

Drive and support technical assessments to determine complexity and effort of solutions and derive team capacity plans.

Help drive the enhancement of department application development/delivery standards, tools, and processes.

Drive team improvement by coaching and mentoring delivery team members.

Provide timely reporting related to products, applications, and delivery teams.

People Management Activities including day to day management of resources, mentoring and development of teams.

Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and skills may be acquired.

6+ years in software delivery in either hands on development or team management roles, a mix of experience in these roles is a plus.

Strong understanding of the delivery lifecycle with experience and understanding of Agile concepts and practices.

Strong communication skills, ability to clearly relay information to various levels of teams and stakeholders.

Strong leadership and interpersonal skills.

People management experience is a preferred.

Must have the ability to multitask with strong intellectual and interpersonal skills.

Additionally, must have the ability to collaborate across various teams and must have strong communication skills.

Innovative problem solver who likes to take on challenges with calculated risk to provide solutions.

Technical understandings in the following areas are a and/or understanding of the following programming languages: Spring Boot, Java, JavaScript, Angular, Restful Services, SQL.

Understanding of Node JS, Spring, AWS and Microservices.

Technical and analytical skills with the ability to analyze system functionality with customer and resolve production issues.

Understanding of DB technologies (DB2, PostgreSQL, MSSQL).