Senior Release Manager Location: Gaithersburg, MD (Primary); Alexandria, VA; Chantilly, VA; Englewood, CO; St. Louis, MO; Tucson, AZ
Required Clearance: Active TS/SCI with Polygraph Eligibility
Employment Type: Full-Time Regular
Shift: Day
Travel: No
Relocation Assistance: Yes
Position Overview
Ennoble First is seeking a Senior Release Manager to support the Chinook program for an Intelligence Community customer. In this highly visible role, you will lead software release planning and execution while serving as a Scrum Master for Agile development teams delivering mission-critical capabilities.
Working closely with engineers, Product Managers, DevSecOps professionals, and customer stakeholders, you will coordinate software releases, facilitate Agile ceremonies, improve delivery processes, and help ensure secure, high-quality software is delivered in a fast-paced mission environment.
Primary Responsibilities
Release Management
- Develop, maintain, and execute integrated release plans across multiple Agile teams.
- Coordinate release readiness activities including planning, integration, testing, deployment, and production support.
- Manage release schedules, dependencies, risks, and cross-team coordination.
- Facilitate release planning meetings and Go/No-Go decision reviews.
- Collaborate with Agile teams to improve CI/CD and release automation.
- Track release metrics and communicate release status to program leadership and customer stakeholders.
- Ensure compliance with customer governance, configuration management, cybersecurity, and change management processes.
- Coordinate release documentation, deployment approvals, and implementation activities.
Scrum Master Responsibilities
- Serve as Scrum Master for one or more Agile teams.
- Facilitate Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and Backlog Refinement.
- Coach teams on Agile principles, Scrum practices, and continuous improvement.
- Remove impediments and proactively resolve delivery risks.
- Partner with Product Managers to maintain healthy product backlogs and prioritize work.
- Foster collaboration across development, test, security, and operations teams.
- Track team velocity, sprint metrics, and Agile health indicators.
- Promote transparency, accountability, and continuous process improvement.
Program Leadership
- Coordinate dependencies across multiple Agile teams and external organizations.
- Support Program Increment (PI) Planning and release forecasting.
- Identify program risks and recommend mitigation strategies.
- Prepare executive-level status reports and release dashboards.
- Support process improvement initiatives and Agile maturity efforts.
- Mentor Scrum Masters and Agile teams to higher levels of maturity.
Required Qualifications
- U.S. citizenship is required per contract.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field and 8-12 years of prior relevant experience, or Master's degree with 6-10 years of prior relevant experience. May possess a Doctorate in a technical domain.
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Advanced CSM, or Certified Scrum Professional (CSP).
- 10+ years of experience supporting software development programs.
- 5+ years of Release Management experience within Agile software development environments.
- 5+ years serving as a Scrum Master for Agile development teams.
- Experience managing releases across multiple Scrum teams.
- Strong understanding of Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and Lean methodologies.
- Experience supporting DevSecOps and CI/CD environments.
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, or similar Agile lifecycle management tools.
- Excellent facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience supporting DoD or Intelligence Community programs.
- Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with the ability to successfully pass a Polygraph examination.
Preferred Qualifications
- SAFe Scrum Master (SSM), SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE), or SAFe Agilist certification.
- PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) and/or PMP certification.
- Experience with GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub Enterprise, or other CI/CD platforms.
- Experience with Kubernetes, cloud-native technologies, or containerized deployments.
- Experience supporting mission systems within the Intelligence Community.
- Experience with scaled Agile frameworks and multi-team release coordination.
Pay Range
$120,000-$155,000
