Epic Release Manager — Healthcare IT Go-Live Lead

The University of Kansas Health System; Lenexa (KS); On-site; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Kansas Health System is seeking a Release Manager - Epic to own and drive the release lifecycle from planning through deployment. You will coordinate application development, QA, database, and infrastructure teams, ensuring testing, upgrades, and go-live readiness align with project milestones.

Responsibilities include maintaining environment structure, producing release notes, and training stakeholders on NOVA.

Qualifications

• Associates Degree in Computer Science or related field required.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field preferred.
• 2+ years as an analyst of release manager preferred.
• 1+ year healthcare setting experience in title role preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own the Release Management lifecycle including planning and scheduling.
• Coordinate between application development, QA, DB, servers and storage teams.
• Ensure release testing, deployment, communication and risk management.
• Maintain environment structures and release documentation.
• Lead Go-Live activities and participate in 24/7 command center duties.
• Use NOVA for assignments and provide stakeholder training.
• Collaborate with HITS change control for 02 components and releases.

Skills

Communication skills

Release management

Planning & scheduling

Inter-team coordination

Education

Associates Degree in Computer Science or related field

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

NOVA

Sherlock

SharePoint

MS Office Suite

Remedy

Job description

The University of Kansas Health System is seeking a Release Manager - Epic to own and drive the release lifecycle from planning through deployment. You will coordinate application development, QA, database, and infrastructure teams, ensuring testing, upgrades, and go-live readiness align with project milestones.

Responsibilities include maintaining environment structure, producing release notes, and training stakeholders on NOVA.