Job Title: Senior Release Manager (Remote)
Location: Baton Rouge, LA
Duration: up to 3 Years
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.
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.