About This Role
This Release Manager role involves leading the planning, coordination, and execution of release management across multiple Agile Release Trains, specifically for a complex PeopleSoft platform in a federal environment. The position focuses on integrated release planning, dependency management, environment readiness, deployment governance, cutover coordination, risk management, and production stabilization for PeopleSoft HCM and related enterprise capabilities. It suits a candidate with strong release management discipline and an understanding of the PeopleSoft platform, structured communication skills, and the ability to align technical teams, business stakeholders, and operations partners.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end release management activities across multiple ARTs supporting PeopleSoft HCM and related enterprise systems, including release planning, coordination, scheduling, execution, and post-release follow-through
- Develop and maintain an integrated release calendar, release milestones, deployment windows, and dependency trackers across application, infrastructure, database, security, testing, and support teams
- Coordinate release scope, readiness, and sequencing for enhancements, fixes, tax updates, PeopleTools changes, interfaces, batch processes, security changes, and production support items moving across environments
- Facilitate release governance activities including release planning meetings, readiness reviews, change control coordination, go/no-go assessments, cutover planning, rollback planning, and stakeholder communications
- Work closely with product owners, scrum masters, release train engineers, developers, testers, infrastructure teams, and client stakeholders to identify dependencies, remove blockers, and ensure release commitments are realistic and traceable
- Track release risks, issues, decisions, and action items; escalate appropriately and drive resolution to protect production stability, schedule adherence, and business continuity
- Ensure environment readiness and deployment discipline across development, test, staging, and production, including coordination of code migrations, configuration changes, data moves, approvals, and validation activities
- Develop and maintain release runbooks, checklists, status reporting, release notes, lessons learned, and operational handoff materials to improve repeatability, auditability, and continuous improvement
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered
- 5+ years of experience in release management, deployment management, or environment coordination for enterprise applications
- Hands-on experience coordinating complex releases across multiple teams or ARTs, including release planning, dependency management, cutover execution, change control, production readiness, and post-release stabilization
