Job Description

The National Airspace System Integration Support Contract (NISC) Division of the Leidos Fed Civ IT Business Area currently has an opening for a Release Train Engineer. This position will be part of a dynamic team working to support the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in Oklahoma City at their Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center location.

RTE Responsibilities

• Facilitate & organize pivotal SAFe ceremonies—ranging from Program Increment Planning (PIP) to ART Syncs and Adapt workshops—ensuring each gathering is purposeful, fluid, and outcome-driven.

• Sustains cohesion across teams, aligning momentum so that parallel efforts converge rather than collide.

• Maintains a broad view of progress, weaving together insights from multiple teams to reveal the broader delivery landscape.

• Anticipates and mitigates risks and removes bottlenecks that affect multiple teams, and navigates interdependencies with precision, safeguarding the steady flow of business value.

• Mentor Scrum Masters, Product Management, and delivery teams, instilling refined Agile and SAFe practices through guidance that is both strategic and practical.

• Collaborate with stakeholders, System Architects, and Product Management, ensuring that features are not merely initiated but brought to full fruition.

• Ensure transparency on progress and issues.

• Lead program-level retrospectives that go beyond routine reflection, transforming insights into actionable evolution.

• Helps implement improvements across the ART.

• Catalyzes ART-wide enhancements, embedding meaningful improvements that ripple across the entire release train.

Key Skills

• Strong Agile & SAFe knowledge
• Waterfall knowledge
• Excellent facilitation and communication
• Conflict resolution
• Systems thinking (seeing how teams connect)
• Leadership without authority.
• Value Delivery: Partnering with stakeholders, System Architects, and Product Management to ensure feature completion

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field and 8 years of relevant experience or 6 years of relevant experience with Masters Degree.
• 5+ years in Agile, with 2+ years specifically as an RTE or program-level leader.
• SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE) certification or SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) is highly preferred.
• Proficient in Jira, Confluence, and reporting tools like Tableau or Power BI.
• Ability to obtain and maintain FAA Public Trust Suitability and Secret Level clearance.

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Original Posting:

March 31, 2026

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $82,550.00 - $149,225.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.