Senior Release Manager

About the role

Leidos is seeking an experienced Senior Release Manager/Scrum Master to join the Chinook program supporting an Intelligence Community customer. This role involves driving the successful delivery of innovative software solutions that directly support national security missions. As a trusted Agile leader, you’ll orchestrate complex software releases across multiple teams while serving as a servant leader and coach to Agile development teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and execute integrated release plans across multiple Agile teams.
• Capture and 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 works.
• 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.
• Track record of mentoring Scrum Masters and Agile teams to higher levels of maturity.