RTM Systems Engineer
Position Type: Full-time Onsite
Location: Springfield, VA
Clearance Required: Active TS/SCI Waypoint’s client is seeking an RTM Systems Engineer who combines systems engineering discipline with hands-on expertise in JIRA and Confluence to ensure accurate taxonomy, traceability, and synchronization across complex development efforts. This role sits at the intersection of governance, technical rigor, and cross-program coordination, ensuring consistent recordkeeping and alignment to SAFe Release Train Management (RTM) practices. The RTM Systems Engineer will be responsible for creating and maintaining accurate records in JIRA/Confluence across Solution Epics, Program Epics, and Features, while ensuring traceability, dependencies, and documentation are properly managed to support enterprise development efforts. Responsibilities
- Ensure all taxonomy elements (Solution Epics, Program Epics, Features) are linked correctly with parent-child relationships, dependencies, tags, and labels in JIRA.
- Enforce adherence to SAFe Core Values, including fixed schedules, common PI length, known velocity, face-to-face PI planning, and consistent cadence.
- Create and maintain documentation of dependencies and interrelationships across development activities and release trains.
- Track associated risks and opportunities within RTM risk boards.
- Coordinate with Product Owners, Feature Support Engineers, and RTM boards to prepare features for execution and demonstrate capability accomplishments for Government approval.
- Synchronize development activity with other Agency Program Offices where services are leveraged or capabilities integrated.
- Capture architecture and system documentation in standardized formats for release trains.
- Translate requirements into Program Epics and Features in collaboration with engineers, Product Owners, and mission stakeholders.
- Support cross-train and enterprise synchronization by ensuring accurate requirements translation and system documentation.
- Active TS/SCI clearance.
- Bachelor’s degree with 4+ years of relevant experience, or Master’s degree with 2+ years of relevant experience.
- Experience drafting detailed application program coding specifications.
- Experience integrating development efforts across multiple systems/segments.
- Experience leading tasks for modifying complex application programs from specifications and Discrepancy Reports.
- Deep expertise configuring and governing JIRA/Confluence records, enforcing parent-child relationships, and ensuring traceability.
- Experience translating requirements into Solution/Program Epics and Features with acceptance criteria aligned to SAFe/RTM practices.
- Familiarity with dependency tracking in JIRA, including use of linkages, boards, and reviews to resolve issues.
- Experience using Confluence templates, macros, and workflows to maintain enterprise documentation.
- Understanding of architecture documentation (ADRs, interface specifications, non-functional requirements).
- Knowledge of SAFe Agile constructs (Solution Epics, Capabilities, Features) to support Release Train Management alignment.
- Strong communication skills for enterprise-wide collaboration, synchronization, and reporting.
- Experience supporting the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).
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