Manage software release calendars, schedules, readiness criteria, approval gates, rollback plans, and deployment coordination across development, testing, staging, and production environments. Partner with technical and business teams to confirm scope, dependencies, risks, and go-live decisions. Maintain release documentation, support post-release monitoring and issue resolution, and improve release management processes across concurrent engagements.
This is a remote position.
The scope of the proposed services will include the following:
- Create and manage the release calendar and coordinate release schedules across concurrent projects
- Define and enforce release management processes, including release readiness criteria, approval gates, and rollback plans
- Partner with development, QA, and UAT teams to confirm release scope, sequencing, and dependencies
- Lead release planning and go/no-go meetings, ensuring risks and open items are visible to stakeholders before deployment
- Coordinate deployment activities across environments (dev, test, staging, production) with technical teams
- Maintain release documentation, including release notes, change logs, and post-release reports
- Identify and mitigate release risks, escalating issues that could affect timeline or client commitments
- Support post-release monitoring and coordinate quick resolution of any issues that surface after go-live
- Continuously refine release management practices and templates to improve consistency across engagements
Requirements
Expertise and/or relevant experience in the following areas are mandatory:
- 4+ years of experience in release management, deployment coordination, or a related delivery role within software implementation or technology consulting environments
- Bachelor's degree
- ITIL certification
Expertise and/or relevant experience in the following areas are desirable but not mandatory:
- Proven understanding of SDLC, environment management, and change control processes
- Experience with release or work-tracking tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, or similar tools
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to coordinate across technical and business teams under time pressure
- Experience managing multiple release schedules simultaneously in a fast-paced setting
- Experience working with federal or state government agencies
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