Release Governance Analyst- #26-23659

US Tech Solutions; Saint Petersburg (FL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

US Tech Solutions is seeking a Release Governance Analyst to support Grid Technology Solutions in coordinating large-scale deployments, upgrades, and production releases across utility environments. The role requires strong organization, executive communication, risk and dependency tracking, and ability to drive cross-functional actions.

Onsite 3–5 days with occasional weekend deployments across states; travel as needed.

Qualifications

• Requires 5–8 years of experience in complex technology programs, releases, deployments, or consulting.
• Proven ability to coordinate across large, cross-functional teams.
• Strong organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to drive work to completion with urgency and initiative.
• Experience in governance, risk, and dependency tracking.
• Experience in release governance or large-scale technology program coordination preferred.

Responsibilities

• Understand and ensure compliance with GTS release management practices.
• Coordinate and support release management activities for major deployments and upgrades.
• Track and drive completion of release criteria across multiple teams.
• Facilitate stakeholder meetings and document action items to closure.
• Lead release readiness assessments, go/no-go reviews, and executive forums.
• Develop and maintain release readiness dashboards, logs, risks, and deployment trackers.
• Coordinate development, review, and approval of MOP documents and deployment plans.
• Identify and elevate risks, issues, and dependencies affecting release readiness.
• Prepare executive-ready status reports and leadership communications.
• Provide on-call/onsite coordination during planned release weekends and occasional after-hours deployments.

Skills

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Stakeholder management

Executive presence

Meeting facilitation

Education

4-year university degree

Tools

PowerPoint

Job description

3-5 days onsite; CW should be willing to participate in weekend deployment activities in other states

About the Role

The Release Governance Analyst will support the Grid Technology Solutions (GTS) organization, which manages critical SCADA, ADMS (Advanced Distribution Management System), and grid operations technologies across multiple utility jurisdictions.

This role serves as a key member of the Release Governance and Delivery team, helping coordinate large-scale system deployments, upgrades, and production releases. Success in this position requires strong organizational skills, executive communication capabilities, attention to detail, and the ability to drive accountability across a complex network of IT and business stakeholders. The analyst will act as the central coordinator for release readiness activities, ensuring leadership has clear visibility into progress, risks, dependencies, and production release readiness.

What You'll Do

Responsible for understanding and ensuring compliance of GTS release management practices

Coordinate and support release management activities for major technology deployments and sustainment upgrades

Track and drive completion of release criteria across multiple teams

Facilitate stakeholder meetings and ensure action items are documented, assigned, and driven to closure

Facilitate release readiness assessments, go/no-go reviews, and executive decision-making forums

Develop and maintain release readiness dashboards, action logs, risk registers, deployment trackers, and lessons-learned repositories

Coordinate the development, review, and approval of Method of Procedure (MOP) documents and deployment plans

Identify, communicate, and elevate risks, issues, and dependencies impacting release readiness

Develop executive-ready PowerPoint presentations, status reports, and leadership communications

Provide coordination support during planned release weekends and occasional after-hours deployment activities.

What We're Looking For

Graduation from a 4-year university.

5-8 years of experience supporting complex technology programs, releases, deployments, or consulting engagements

Exceptional organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills

Demonstrates initiative, a strong sense of urgency, and the determination to drive work to completion.

Demonstrated ability to coordinate activities across large, cross-functional teams

Strong executive presentation and PowerPoint development capabilities

Comfortable facilitating meetings and presenting status updates to leaders and stakeholders

Ability to proactively drive follow-ups, facilitate resolution of open items, and ensure commitments are tracked through completion.

Experience managing risks, dependencies, action items, and governance processes

Experience in consulting, release governance, or large-scale technology program coordination strongly preferred.

Experience in utility operations, grid technology, SCADA, ADMS, OMS, or other critical infrastructure environments is highly desirable

Experience with consulting, process development and change management are highly desirable

Willingness to work onsite, travel as needed, and support occasional weekend deployment activities in other states.

Success in this role will be measured by:

On-time completion of release readiness activities

Accurate reporting of risks and dependencies

Effective facilitation of governance meetings

Successful execution of production deployments and upgrades

Why This Role

• This position offers the opportunity to support the deployment and sustainment of mission-critical technologies that enable safe and reliable electric grid operations.
• The consultant will work alongside senior technology leaders, utility operations teams, and industry partners to help deliver high-visibility releases that directly impact customer service, outage restoration, and grid modernization initiatives.
• The role provides exposure to executive leadership, large-scale technology programs, and complex operational environments while helping establish the governance rigor needed to support ongoing annual upgrade and release cycles.

About US Tech Solutions:

US Tech Solutions is a global staff augmentation firm providing a wide range of talent on-demand and total workforce solutions. To know more about US Tech Solutions, please visit www.ustechsolutions.com.

US Tech Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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