Our client, a leading federal defense contractor is seeking a Release Planner and FRCB Champion on MUOS to work with a a cross functional team responsible for oversight of the development and test planning activities for a satellite communications systems release.

This position can be fully on-site or three days on-site and two days working from home, While on-site, you will be a part of the MUOS team located in Scottsdale, AZ.

Activities and tasks include:
- Participating in the development of specific current release content objectives as part of a longer term Increment Planning activity
- Understanding the release content objective impacts on each of the contributing development teams
- Developing a high-level understanding of system functionality in order to validate and communicate impacts to Configuration Items
- Setting up milestones, determine communication plan and top level release development schedule
- Overseeing the execution of the development and testing of a release across the multiple contributing teams by: coordinating, progress tracking, cross-team communication
- Ensuring development schedules align for efficient use of system level lab testing / integration resources
- Working with other System Engineers to ensure alignment and adequacy of test planning in order to help guarantee smooth System Test entry and execution
- Interacting with program management and development leads to coordinate, negotiate, and update priorities as needed
- Tracking and drive resolution when teams are running into progress issues or aren-t communicating effectively
- Communicating release development status in monthly reviews
- Communicating release content scope with deployment team and support their planning activities
- Helping identify process holes for lessons-learned improvement opportunities

Required Skills

- Must be US Citizen due to government requirement
- Must be able to obtain a DoD Secret (active Secret is preferred)
- Requires a Bachelor-s degree in Systems Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering or Mathematics field. Also requires 5+ years of job-related experience, or a Master's degree plus 3 years of job-related experience. Agile experience preferred.

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
- Track record for successfully planning, testing and releasing large software releases on schedule
- Experience setting up milestones, determine communication plan and top level release development schedule
- Creative thinker motivated to apply technical standards and methodologies to develop solutions
- Collaborative team player with the ability to provide technical leadership and position others for success
- Experience running internal and customer Failure Review Control Board (FRCB) meetings
- Strong presentation and communications skills with experience in the art of negotiation and the ability to meet challenging customer requirements with win-win solutions
- Commitment to ongoing professional development for yourself and others