# Sr. Solution Train Engineer

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Annapolis Junction, MD
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $131,300.00 - $237,350.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced Sr. Solution Train Engineer to support Solution Train and Agile Release Train (ART) operations for a large mission-critical program using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

The ideal candidate will bring significant experience leading agile teams and be prepared to step into a Solution Train Engineer leadership role on a large, complex program with demanding interface, performance, and security requirements.

**Primary Responsibilities**

- Facilitate Solution Train and ART operations across Solution Train and ARTs.

- Work with SAFe governance stakeholders on program execution.

- Support work allocation and resource assignment across ARTs.

- Monitor performance, remove impediments, and drive improvement.

- Coordinate schedules and program-wide software and architecture releases.

- Lead PI Planning, including logistics and technical preparation.

- Lead Solution Train planning events and pre- and post-planning meetings.

- Facilitate cross-team collaboration through Scrum of Scrums and related forums.

- Track feature and capability execution through program metrics.

- Brief customers on progress, testing, deployment, and release readiness.

- Assess skill needs and support staffing actions with leadership.

- Provide input on resourcing to address critical bottlenecks.

- Coach teams, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and leaders in agile practices.

- Promote teamwork to achieve PI goals.

- Guide teams toward greater agile maturity.

- Support Communities of Practice and Built-In Quality practices.

**Benefits**

- Competitive benefits, including Paid Time Off, 11 paid Holidays, 401K with a 6% company match and immediate vesting, Flexible Schedules, Discounted Stock Purchase Plans, Technical Upskilling, Education and Training Support, Parental Paid Leave, and much more.

**Basic Qualifications**

- Bachelor’s degree and at least 12 years of relevant experience.

- At least 7 years of experience leading teams or projects.

- At least 5 years of experience supporting large software development, systems, integration, and test efforts.

- Demonstrated work experience as a Scrum Master.

- Demonstrated work experience as a Release Train Engineer or Solution Train Engineer.

- Demonstrated work experience applying SAFe and executing PI Planning.

- Experience with agile tools such as Jira, VersionOne, Rally, or IBM ELM.

- Ability to explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.

- Experience working on agile software teams.

- Experience working with external stakeholders, including government representatives.

- Experience briefing leadership and customers on status and progress.

- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.

- Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.

- Strong time management and issue triage skills, and strong attention to detail and task completion.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Prior experience as a Solution Train Engineer.

- Significant experience in software development, test, or systems engineering.

- Extensive experience working with multi-disciplinary development teams.

- Scaled Agile certification, such as SAFe Agilist or SAFe RTE.

- Experience across the software development lifecycle – as a developer, tester, system engineer, etc.

- Experience with test automation, test-driven development, continuous integration, and continuous deployment to support Built-In Quality.

## Skills

### Required
- SAFe
- Agile
- Scrum Master
- Release Train Engineer
- Solution Train Engineer
- Jira
- VersionOne
- Rally
- IBM ELM

### Nice to have
- Scaled Agile certification
- software development
- test automation
- test-driven development
- continuous integration
- continuous deployment

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