Senior Release Manager

Description

Are you passionate about leading high-performing Agile teams and delivering mission-critical capabilities that make a real-world impact? Leidos is seeking an experienced Senior Release Manager/Scrum Master to join the Chinook program supporting an Intelligence Community customer. In this highly visible role, you’ll help drive 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. You’ll collaborate with engineers, Product Managers, DevSecOps professionals, and customer stakeholders to deliver secure, high-quality capabilities in a fast-paced, mission-focused environment.

If you thrive on solving complex challenges, enabling teams to perform at their best, and continuously improving software delivery, this is an opportunity to make a meaningful contribution while working alongside some of the industry’s most talented professionals.

Position may be performed in the following locations below. Please note Gaithersburg, MD is the program’s primary work location.

• Gaithersburg, MD

• Alexandria, VA

• Chantilly, VA

• Englewood, CO

• St Louis, MO

• Tucson, AZ

Clearance Level Required:

Active Top Secret/SCI with the ability to successfully pass a Polygraph examination.

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 communication 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.

Basic Qualifications:

• US 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 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• SAFe Scrum Master (SSM), SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE), 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.

#Chinook

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Original Posting:

July 10, 2026

Pay Range:

Pay Range $107,900.00 - $195,050.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.