Integrated Release & Environment Lead

Tata Consultancy Services; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Comprehensive medical coverage

Parental leave

401K plan

Training reimbursement

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services seeks a Release Governance Lead to manage integrated release planning across applications and vendors, owning calendars, sequencing, approvals, cutovers, and post-release stabilization.

The role focuses on release governance, readiness decisions, and coordination of end-to-end change processes, ensuring smooth deployments and robust controls across multiple systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.

Responsibilities

• Owns integrated environment and release planning across applications and vendors, with accountability for release calendars, deployment sequencing, change approvals, cutover orchestration, readiness decisions, command-center execution, and post-release stabilization.
• Define the release strategy, release trains, governance forums, calendars, quality gates, approval model, and deployment standards.
• Build integrated release plans covering SAP IS-U, CDG, MDM, IEE, Salesforce, GIS, mobile, integration, reporting, and third-party systems.
• Coordinate deployment sequencing, code/configuration/data dependencies, environment windows, test completion, change freezes, certificates, and infrastructure prerequisites.
• Lead release-readiness reviews and confirm designs, testing, approvals, security, rollback, monitoring, support, and business readiness.
• Prepare and govern change requests, CAB submissions, implementation plans, validation steps, rollback plans, and audit evidence.
• Develop integrated cutover runbooks, minute-by-minute schedules, ownership, checkpoints, communications, and command-center protocols.
• Manage release RAID, critical path, vendor commitments, milestone forecast, resource needs, and executive escalation.
• Coordinate dress rehearsals, defect drops, emergency fixes, production deployments, smoke testing, and business validation.
• Track hypercare incidents, failed transactions, technical health, backout criteria, stabilization actions, and transition to support.
• Conduct post-implementation reviews and improve release metrics, controls, automation, and reusable procedures.

Skills

Release management

Deployment planning

Change governance

Environment coordination

Project management tools

Azure DevOps

Jira

ServiceNow Change Management

CI/CD

Jenkins

Git

Readiness reporting

Hypercare

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science

Tools

Microsoft Project

Azure DevOps

Jira

ServiceNow Change Management

Jenkins

Git

Job description

Tata Consultancy Services seeks a Release Governance Lead to manage integrated release planning across applications and vendors, owning calendars, sequencing, approvals, cutovers, and post-release stabilization.

The role focuses on release governance, readiness decisions, and coordination of end-to-end change processes, ensuring smooth deployments and robust controls across multiple systems.