Release Engineer jobs in Reston, VA

Compass is looking for a motivated individual to provide operational services to the Intelligence Community. Our goal is to hire talented and passionate team members who desire to grow their skill sets, as well as the reputation of the company with our partners, clients, and stakeholders. We are looking for an individual to join an innovative team supporting mission critical/mission essential activities. Professional IT certification training opportunities and assistance are available through Compass.

Position Title: Systems Engineer: Data Analyst-Release Manager (Expert)
Clearance: Top Secret/SCI
Location: Springfield, VA

General Responsibilities:

• Assist the Government in establishing and maintaining an enterprise release management framework that supports requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability, and analysis across the NSG, ASG and Federal Agencies.
• Knowledgeable of Enterprise level Agile engineering concepts specifically the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) to assist the Government in the addressing and implementing enterprise level Agile methodologies and concepts in areas of relating to vision, strategy, plans, needs, requirements, process/capability development, and execution.
• Supports the development of enterprise guidance for the construct of agile engineering artifacts and systems engineering plans which guide and govern the Government in performing systems integration and enterprise AGILE activities.
• Assist the programs in the planning, analysis/traceability of user requirements, architectures traceability, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review cloud service capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.
• Advise the Government on proposed changes to the solutions designs based on analysis of requirements and new technology.
• Assist the Government in the capture and translation of mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and program epics that align with enterprise requirements and priorities.

Required Skills and Tasks:

• Active TS/SCI clearance
• Able to develop & communicate SAFe Agile concepts & processes
• Performs multiple tasks at specialist level
• Leads multiple Junior-Mid-Senior level personnel
• Experience within National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
• Knowledge of Enterprise Agile development terms and methodology
• May be recognized as a SME

Education/Certification Required:

• Master’s degree, Bachelor’s degree plus 4 years’ experience, Associate's degree plus 6 years’ experience, or a minimum of 18 years’ experience in relevant field.
• SAFe Agilist; active SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) certification

Education/Certification Desired:

• SAFe Product Owner and Project Manager (POPM), SAFe Lean Portfolio Manager (LPM), SAFe Government Practitioner (SGP)

Compass, Inc. (Compass) is a Small Business (SB) headquartered in Winchester, VA as a Defense and Intelligence solutions provider to the United States Government. We provide Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA), Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS), and Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) to our government and business partner customers. As a premier Defense and Intelligence solution provider, we employee a diverse, agile, highly trained and extremely talented staff.

Equal Opportunity Employer Veterans/Disabled