Information Technology Project Manager (Release Train Engineer)

The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts is seeking an experienced Information Technology Project Manager (Release Train Engineer) to join its team. The role involves driving the daily technical program for the release train, managing cross-pod dependencies, and ensuring cohesive end-to-end delivery across various teams.

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining an integrated value stream delivery plan across build pods, aligning sprint and Program Increment (PI) execution to committed milestones and release items
• Tracking and managing cross-pod dependencies and handoffs ensuring blockers are surfaced early and routed through the correct escalation path
• Maintaining and managing value stream RAID including intaking, prioritizing, mitigation planning, and leadership escalation
• Monitoring resource and budget signals at the value stream level and partnering with APMO and AO pod leads to address capacity gaps and forecast risks
• Producing and maintaining program-ready execution artifacts, enabling transparent reporting, decision making support, and governance rhythms
• Analyzing, recommending, and implementing requirements, principles, and design models that satisfy the needs of the various system components
• Maintaining product alignment oversight such as roadmaps, scopes, and sequencing management
• Providing integrated views of statuses, risks, dependencies, and near-term decisions report to APMO to consolidate pod and value stream execution progress
• Driving cross-workstream alignment across solution, build, data, and infrastructure teams to ensure cohesive end-to-end delivery
• Facilitating decision-making forums to ensure timely resolution of ambiguities and maintaining structured decision logs and escalation pathways across the value streams
• Leading increment (PI) planning readiness and alignment to ensure synchronization between roadmap, scope, and execution timelines
• Coordinating with vendors to establish onboarding standards and ensure adherence to program frameworks and delivery expectations
• Defining and maintaining value stream level metrics and dashboards to track delivery, health, risks, and execution performance
• Spearheading stakeholder engagement through proactive communication to ensure alignment across technical and non-technical audiences
• Contributing to framework and process maturity including standardization of tools (e.g. Jira structures), templates, and operating rhythms
• Supporting capacity planning and resource alignment across pods/value streams to meet roadmap priorities
• Facilitating cross-team tradeoff discussions to resolve competing priorities and maintaining momentum

Requirements:

• Experience as an Information Technology Project Manager (Release Train Engineer)
• Ability to maintain integrated visibility to deliver progress, dependencies, Risks Actions Issues Dependencies (RAID) items, scope, procurement needs, resources, and budget signals across the value stream
• Experience in maintaining an integrated value stream delivery plan across build pods
• Ability to track and manage cross-pod dependencies and handoffs
• Experience in maintaining and managing value stream RAID including intaking, prioritizing, mitigation planning, and leadership escalation
• Ability to monitor resource and budget signals at the value stream level
• Experience in producing and maintaining program-ready execution artifacts
• Ability to analyze, recommend, and implement requirements, principles, and design models
• Experience in maintaining product alignment oversight such as roadmaps, scopes, and sequencing management
• Ability to provide integrated views of statuses, risks, dependencies, and near-term decisions report
• Experience in driving cross-workstream alignment across solution, build, data, and infrastructure teams
• Ability to facilitate decision-making forums and maintain structured decision logs
• Experience in leading increment (PI) planning readiness and alignment
• Ability to coordinate with vendors to establish onboarding standards
• Experience in defining and maintaining value stream level metrics and dashboards
• Ability to spearhead stakeholder engagement through proactive communication
• Experience in contributing to framework and process maturity including standardization of tools
• Ability to support capacity planning and resource alignment across pods/value streams
• Experience in facilitating cross-team tradeoff discussions