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Job Title: Lead, Project Engineering

Job Code: 36217

Job Location: Lynchburg, VA - Jefferson Ridge Parkway

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

• Act as a servant leader for multiple agile project teams to deliver project(s) that span across one or more value streams (multiple projects and/or release trains).
• Serve as the Release Train Engineer, managing and optimizing the flow of value through an Agile Release Train
• Includes management of issues, risks and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery.
• Provide direction and set priorities to deliver to plans/budget and resolve day-to-day project issues as it relates to the Engineering portfolio.
• Perform risk/issue assessment, tracking, resolution, escalation and closeout to ensure satisfactory project performance and delivery.
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure accurate schedules, well defined statements of work, identified and quantified risk, highest quality, and costs within budget.
• Manage and maintain program/project management tools, metrics, and related processes.
• Instill process discipline and a culture of accountability focused on customer satisfaction and supreme quality.
• Assist in the leadership of the teams through the Agile transformation and acting as a perpetual change agent to that end.
• Works with minimal supervision, manages own time effectively, maintains control over all current projects/responsibilities. Follows up on all relevant issues; pro-active.
• Minimal travel within the US anticipated.

Essential Functions:

• The position requires a critical driving force within the team for optimizing flow and pushing for improvement using the implementation of a Lean/Agile mindset.
• Managing and optimizing the flow of value through an Agile Release Train (ART)
• Managing schedule execution and planning the software / architecture releases for the project/program
• Facilitating Program Increment (PI) Planning readiness by fostering a continuous exploration process which drives the synthesis of a Vision, a Roadmap, and Backlogs, and through Pre- and Post-PI Planning meetings.
• Facilitating cross-team collaboration within program via Scrum of Scrums meeting and other less formal forums in support of development, testing, and deployment efforts
• Summarizing Team PI objectives into Program PI objectives and publishing them for visibility and transparency
• Assist tracking the execution of features and capabilities through metrics across the program’s agile and DevOps teams.
• Briefing customer on development progress throughout PI cycle and on the status of testing, deployment, and release readiness
• Acquiring understanding of the large complex software system and assess risk and understand varied customer concerns
• Coaching teams, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and Project/Program Leaders in agile practices
• Promoting teamwork to achieve PI goals.
• Leading the teams towards agile maturity
• Escalating and tracking impediments
• Work with the Scrum teams to identify dependencies and critical path items to ensure work is executed in the most efficient manner
• Providing input on resourcing to address critical bottlenecks and remove blockers
• Working with the contractor Program Management Office (PMO) on program execution test data

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience
• 10+ years’ experience as a technical project manager (hardware and/or software)

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Strong oral/written communication and interpersonal skills, including exceptional presentation and facilitation skills.
• Experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project.
• Able to work within a cross-functional, geographically dispersed team environment.
• Demonstrated the capacity to effectively foster team building within and beyond his/her work group.
• Ability to understand and evaluate technical and non-technical documents.
• Well organized, ability to meet deadlines, self-starter and be able to multi-task between multiple consecutive critical tasks.
• Cognizant of ISO quality system procedures and documents.
• Ability to use proper English spelling, grammar and legible office and business writing skills.
• Should possess shared L3Harris values of Integrity, Teamwork, Excellence, and Accountability.

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