Release Analyst - Enterprise Apps (Hybrid, St. Pete)

Eliassen Group; Saint Petersburg (FL); Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group in Saint Petersburg, FL, is seeking an Application Analyst to coordinate Enterprise Asset Management release readiness, deployment planning, and post-release follow-up across application, analytics, GIS, and Change Management teams.

The role requires coordinating release windows, communicating readiness, and tracking validation results, with flexibility for evening/weekend work as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or related field.
• In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 4 years of related business or IT experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain release plans, timelines, milestone schedules, readiness checkpoints, contact lists, communication schedules, go/no-go materials, status trackers, risk registers, and action-item logs.
• Coordinate planning discussions, status meetings, pre-job briefings, readiness reviews, deployment activities, and post-release sessions across teams.
• Support implementation windows, including evening and weekend activities when required, monitor progress, and escalate issues affecting availability or service restoration.
• Prepare clear communications for technical teams, business partners, IT management, leadership, users, and Change Management.
• Track technical and functional checkout readiness, collect validation results, identify gaps, and support go/no-go decisions.
• Partner with multiple teams to align sequencing, dependencies, and release milestones.
• Assist with Change Requests, QA documentation, implementation plans, validation evidence, and audit-ready records.
• Respond to production issues and coordinate during incidents, disruption events, and deployment exceptions within SLAs.
• Document risks, blockers, lessons learned, gaps, and improvement opportunities.

Skills

Release planning

Change management

Coordination

Communication

Problem solving

Multitasking

ITSM awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Business

4+ years related experience

Tools

ServiceNow

ITSM tools

Job description

Eliassen Group in Saint Petersburg, FL, is seeking an Application Analyst to coordinate Enterprise Asset Management release readiness, deployment planning, and post-release follow-up across application, analytics, GIS, and Change Management teams.

The role requires coordinating release windows, communicating readiness, and tracking validation results, with flexibility for evening/weekend work as needed.