Job Title: RTM Systems Engineer - #463 Location: Springfield, VA Security Clearance: TS/SCI Required
ABOUT THE ROLE
The ideal RTM Systems Engineer combines systems engineering discipline with hands-on expertise in JIRA and Confluence to ensure accurate taxonomy, traceability, and synchronization across complex development efforts. The RTM Systems Engineer creates and maintains accurate records in JIRA and Confluence of past, existing and planned development work in the form of Solution Epic Light Weight Business Cases, Solution Epic Minimum Viable Product Functions, Program Epic Light Weight Business Cases, and Program Epic Minimum Viable Product Functions and Features. DUTIES Ensures all elements of this taxonomy are linked correctly in parent-child relationships and that all dependencies are reflected in the appropriate JIRA fields, along with the correct Tags and Labels for each record.
Ensures that all team members operate on a set of common principles: a fixed schedule, an increment every two weeks, a common PI length, a known velocity using SAFe Core Values, face-to-face PI planning, a demonstrated capability at the end of each development segment, a well understood and consistent cadence and monitoring of all testing schedules. Creates and maintains documentation detailing all dependencies and inter-relationships between development activities/release trains and other-than release trains. Maintaining awareness, tracking, and coordination of these inter-dependencies and required capabilities is critical to overall success.
Ensure associated risks and opportunities are entered and tracked in the Office/Contract’s Board that tracks risk and opportunities of the overall office. Coordinates with Product Owners and Feature Support Engineers and schedule/conduct RTM meetings and review/approval boards for each development cycle including Sprints and Program Increments. These boards will be required for preparing and orchestrating features for future execution and demonstrating capability for those features that have already been accomplished and need Government approval prior to the next step in fielding new capability.
Coordinates with other Agency’s capabilities and offices where we are leveraging their existing services and adding capability to their baseline. To this end, the Contractor shall support all management activities to synchronize development activity with the other Agency’s Program Office and monitor the status of capability backlogs, prioritization, and successful uploads of RTM capabilities to the Agency’s operational instance.
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Hold an active TS/SCI security clearance Bachelor’s degree plus four years of experience, or Masters plus two years of experience in Government Program and Information Technology or a related field. Experience drafting detailed application program coding specifications. Experience working to integrate development efforts across multiple systems/segments.
Desired Experience in leading tasks for modifying complex applications programs from specifications and Discrepancy Reports. The ideal candidate will: Possess deep experience configuring and governing JIRA/Confluence records, enforcing parent-child relationships, applying standardized tags/labels, and ensuring end-to-end traceability.
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