Release, Delivery, & Scrum Lead

Sightview Software; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Sightview Software LLC in the United States seeks a Release & Delivery Lead who owns the release calendar, drives the Change Control Board, and ensures end-to-end readiness for deployments across Engineering, QA, DevOps, Product, and Support.

The role also serves as Scrum Master for one or more teams, bringing agile discipline to planning and execution, coordinating with stakeholders to protect reliability for patient care and customer success.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software delivery, release management, or agile project delivery.
• 3+ years as a Scrum Master on software development teams.
• Proven record coordinating production releases across several teams and functions.
• Experience writing and maintaining process documentation, runbooks, and checklists.
• Excellent written and spoken English, with ability to write deployment notices and executive release summaries.
• Hands-on experience with Jira and Confluence.
• Daily fluency with Microsoft 365 (Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, Excel).
• Comfort facilitating meetings with engineers, executives, and customers.
• Strong organization and follow-through across multiple release trains.

Responsibilities

• Own the release calendar and coordinate scope, timing, and readiness with Engineering, QA, DevOps, Product, and Support.
• Run the Change Control Board (CCB) process and coach the organization on process elements.
• Facilitate release readiness reviews and determine go/no-go criteria.
• Track release scope in Jira and keep status visible to stakeholders.
• Identify and manage release risks, dependencies, and blockers with stakeholders.

Skills

English communication

Agile delivery

Scrum facilitation

Stakeholder management

Release coordination

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Microsoft 365

Teams

Outlook

SharePoint

Excel

Job description

ABOUT SIGHTVIEW

Sightview Software LLC provides a suite of industry-leading software specifically geared toward ophthalmology and optometry practices practice management, surgical, revenue cycle management (RCM), MIPS reporting, and more. Sightview is a one-stop shop for eye care specialists and their patients.

Engagement Integrity Collaboration Resilience Accountability

JOB SUMMARY

The Release & Delivery Lead is the single accountable owner of how Sightview ships. This role owns the release calendar and Change Control Board process end-to-end, defines and enforces the checkpoints before, during, and after every deployment, and keeps internal teams and customer-facing stakeholders informed of what’s coming, when, and what it means for them. The Release & Delivery Lead also serves as Scrum Master for one or more delivery teams, bringing agile discipline to planning and execution, and partners closely with Engineering, QA, DevOps, Product, and Support to protect the reliability of every release our customers depend on for patient care.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Release Coordination

• Own the release calendar for our products and coordinate scope, timing, and readiness with Engineering, QA, DevOps, Product, and Support.
• Run the Change Control Board (CCB) process, gather decision evidence, and coach the organization on the process elements.
• Facilitate release readiness (go/no-go) reviews and bring the right people together to assess tradeoffs and reach go/no-go decisions based on clear entry/exit criteria.
• Track release scope in Jira (fix versions, release tickets, dependencies) and keep status visible to stakeholders.
• Identify and track release risks, dependencies, and blockers early, and drive them to resolution or escalation in partnership with stakeholders.

Deployment Process and Checkpoints

• Document and maintain the pre-, intra-, and post-deployment processes, checklists, and runbooks in Confluence.
• Define clear checkpoints and owners for each phase: code freeze, regression sign-off, change approval, deployment window, smoke testing, rollback decision, and post-release validation.
• Coordinate live deployment events and act as the single point of coordination while a release is in flight.
• Lead post-release reviews and retrospectives, capture lessons learned, and turn them into process improvements.
• Keep release documentation audit-ready for regulated and compliance-driven reviews.

Agile Delivery

• Serve as Scrum Master for one or more teams: facilitate planning, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Coach teams and stakeholders on Scrum and Agile practices, and remove impediments to delivery.
• Help plan and align work across teams (PI Planning or equivalent) and manage cross-team dependencies.
• Track and report delivery metrics such as velocity, predictability, cycle time, release frequency, and escaped defects.

Communication

• Own internal release communications: release plans, deployment notices, status updates, and outage or maintenance notices.
• Partner with Product, Support, Customer Success, and Marketing on customer-facing communications, including release notes, maintenance windows, and feature announcements.
• Keep Support and customer-facing teams ready for each release with known issues, changes that affect workflows, and FAQs.
• Give leadership concise, reliable updates on release health and delivery status.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years in software delivery, release management, or agile project delivery.
• 3+ years as a Scrum Master on software development teams.
• A proven record of coordinating production releases across several teams and functions.
• Experience writing and maintaining process documentation, runbooks, and checklists.
• Excellent written and spoken English, with the ability to write a clear deployment notice for engineers and a plain-language release summary for customers or executives.
• Hands-on experience with Jira (boards, fix versions, filters/JQL, dashboards) and Confluence.
• Daily fluency with Microsoft 365, including Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, and Excel.
• Comfort facilitating meetings with a wide range of people, from engineers to executives to customers.
• Strong organization and follow-through, with the ability to juggle several release trains and deadlines.
• Enough technical grounding to follow deployment pipelines, environments, and release risks, and to ask engineers the right questions.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience as a Release Train Engineer (RTE) in SAFe, or leading releases across several Scrum teams (Scrum of Scrums).
• Certifications such as SAFe RTE, SAFe Scrum Master (SSM), PSM, CSM, or ITIL 4 Foundation.
• A technical background, such as prior work as a developer, QA engineer, systems administrator, or DevOps engineer.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), environment management, and rollback strategies.
• Health IT experience, especially EHR/EMR, practice management, or other clinical software.
• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS products and customer-facing maintenance windows.
• Experience in regulated environments, such as HIPAA, ONC Health IT Certification, or SOC 2.
• Experience with ITSM or change management practices (CAB, change records, release approvals).
• Experience working alongside a support organization (for example HubSpot or Zendesk) to connect releases with customer issues.