Release Train Engineer SME

ECS Federal LLC

Washington, DC

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Agile Programming Methodologies, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Atlassian JIRA, Cross-Functional, Financial Management, Integration Testing, Jenkins, Leadership, Negotiation Skills, Operational Audit, Program Planning, Reporting Dashboards, Risk, Team Lead/Manager, Team Player, Technical Leadership, Test Plan/Schedule, Theater Production, Top Secret Clearance, Trend Analysis
LOCATION
Washington, DC
POSTED
30+ days ago

Everforth ECS is seeking a Release Train Engineer SME to work in the National Capital Region covering the Pentagon, Falls Church, and Fairfax. Please Note: This position is contingent upon contract award.

The War Data Platform (WDP) is a key initiative within the U.S. Department of War's (DoW) AI-First strategy introduced in early 2026. The WDP focuses on operational warfighting data and aims to accelerate the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) on the battlefield. The WDP extends to Unclassified, Secret, and Top Secret environments, and supports collaboration between Combatant Commands, Joint Staff directorates, Senior Executive Service leaders, and operational analysts.

The Release Train Engineer SME serves as a senior technical and managerial authority for the WDP Core Integration Agile Release Train, orchestrating Program Increment planning, cross-team delivery governance, and DevSecOps pipelines operations across environments to ensure continuous, mission-aligned capability delivery at enterprise scale. In this role, the Release Train Engineer integrates agile program leadership, toolchain governance, and executive stakeholder engagement to maximize Agile Release Train velocity, integration maturity, and delivery predictability across all classification domains.

  • Provides technical and management leadership on major enterprise assignments across environments understanding the status of features across the enterprise
  • Establishes release-train goals, milestones, and performance controls that meet project objectives; directs and controls scope, staffing, methods, and financial management for cross-functional teams spanning development, test, integration, staging, and production.
  • Supports Agile ceremonies and Increment planning; negotiates priorities, dependencies, and risk trade-offs with engineering teams, management teams, stakeholders, and end users.
  • Applies agile domain expertise and toolchain mastery across Jira, Confluence, GitLab, Jenkins, SonarQube, and automated DevSecOps pipelines to drive velocity, feature readiness, integration maturity, and compliance.
  • Governs Infrastructure-as-Code and Configuration-as-Code baselines across multiple security enclaves; monitors and reports burndown trends, defect density, pipeline stability, integration success rates, and delivery throughput.
  • Directs triage and incident recovery to remove blockers across environments.
  • Produces Program objectives, readiness assessments, cost and schedule status, and executive dashboards used for client decision-making and roadmap alignment.
  • Coaches teams on Agile execution, systems coordination, and disciplined workflow, implementing continuous-improvement actions that reduce rework, improve predictability, and accelerate mission value.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

About the Company

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ECS Federal LLC

ECS was founded in 2001 by experienced IT professionals with a commitment to quality processes, people and performance. Led by our Chairman, Roy Kapani, and an experienced executive leadership team, ECS provides our customers with solutions and services that support their critical needs and further mission objectives. This commitment has paved the way for expansive growth, year over year.

ECS gained market share in 2011 in the Department of Defense and Federal spaces through both organic and acquisition growth. In May, ECS completed its first strategic acquisition with the purchase of OAK Management, Inc., a leading provider of marine environmental services, ship systems engineering, maritime consulting and platform acquisition management. The OAK acquisition kicked off ECS’ intention to add tactical acquisitions as a part of its long term strategy to supplement and expand upon organic growth and to build enterprise value. ECS closed out 2011 with the acquisition of Paradigm Technologies, Inc. The Paradigm transaction added approximately 200 employees to ECS’ existing 900+ employees. Paradigm also added new Defense clients for ECS, including the Missile Defense Agency, the Navy’s Program Executive Officer for Integrated Warfare Systems, the United States Marine Corps, and the U.S. Marshals Service.

In 2012, ECS completed the acquisition of iLuMinA Solutions, Inc. iLuMinA brings large-scale Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software implementation and infrastructure design and development to ECS’ expanding capabilities.

ECS will continue to invest in corporate infrastructure and quality processes as we grow and enhance our ability to offer professional excellence to both our customers and our employees.

COMPANY SIZE
50 to 99 employees
INDUSTRY
Staffing/Employment Agencies
FOUNDED
2000
WEBSITE
http://www.ecs-federal.com/