Release Coordinator

AssistRx, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 71,000 - 89,000; Full time

Job summary

AssistRx, Inc. is seeking a Release Coordinator to join our Release Management team in the United States. You will lead CAB activities, validate deployment plans, and ensure release deliverables are completed on time with proper communication and documentation.

You will collaborate with engineers and project teams, manage release notes, approvals, and post-release verification, and drive improvements to release processes while maintaining strict deadlines and quality standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or 1-2 years of related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Working knowledge of change release management best practices and of risk management.
• Proven experience in release management, project coordination, or a similar role.
• Strong understanding of software development and release processes.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Ability to work well under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
• Knowledge of version control systems and deployment tools.
• Familiarity with Agile and DevOps methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates release planning meetings with key stakeholders to identify proper sequencing of release packages.
• Ensures issues and risks are identified, understood, and mitigated to protect scope and schedule.
• Participates in or facilitates the Change Advisory Board meetings and process.
• Defines and documents the release recommendation for each release and/or change to production.
• Reviews release recommendation with key stakeholders.
• Oversees release decisions and processes in terms of cross-departmental impacts.
• Maintains release management schedule for specific system(s).
• Documents and communicates all changes for a release in release notes.
• Lead and coordinate the Go-Live activities including the execution of deployment plans and checklist.
• Work with engineers and project teams to understand impacts of branches and code merges.
• Performs other related duties as assigned by management.

Skills

Release management

Project coordination

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Work under pressure

Version control

Deployment tools

Agile methodologies

DevOps practices

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Version control systems

Deployment tools

Job description

Overview

A Release Coordinator is a member of the Release Management team. The release management team is responsible for Change Advisory Board (CAB) and Release Coordination. The Release Coordinator specifically may lead/participate in the CAB process and will then validate the release deployment plan is accurately prepared and followed. The Release Coordinator will ensure that all release deliverables (usually in the form of Release Activities or entry/exit criterion) have been completed in line with the release dates and deadlines. Typically, we would expect to see release notes, approvals, communications, contact lists and pre and post-release verification activities also managed by the Release Coordinator.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates release planning meetings with key stakeholders to identify proper sequencing of release packages. Ensures that issues and risks are identified, understood, and dealt with in a manner that mitigates risk to scope and schedule.
• Participates in or facilitates the Change Advisory Board meetings and process.
• Defines and documents the release recommendation for each release and/or change to production. Includes release scope, schedule, deliverables, and roll back plan. Reviews release recommendation with key stakeholders.
• Oversees release decisions and processes in terms of the big picture/cross-departmental impacts.
• Maintains release management schedule for specific (or assigned) system(s).
• Documents and communicates all changes for a release in release notes which are published to the internal team.
• Identifies opportunities to make tactical improvements to the release management process.
• Maintains documentation of all processes.
• Creates release management standards to be followed. Educates on the release methodology and strategy.
• Collects feedback from the users of release management standards and identifies the need to modify or retire a standard based on the feedback.
• Lead and coordinate the Go-Live activities including the execution of deployment plans and checklist.
• Work with engineers and project teams to understand impacts of branches and code merges
• Performs other related duties as assigned by management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree (BA) from four-year college or university, or one to two years of related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Working knowledge of change release management best practices and of risk management.
• Proven experience in release management, project coordination, or a similar role.
• Strong understanding of software development and release processes.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Ability to work well under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
• Knowledge of version control systems and deployment tools.
• Familiarity with Agile and Dev
• Ops methodologies.

Pay Range

USD $71,400.19 - USD $89,250.24 /Yr.