Release Manager

Jobtailor; Kentucky; On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Kentucky seeks an experienced Release Manager to coordinate complex software releases and drive IT change management best practices. You will lead cross-team efforts to align schedules, milestones, and deployment plans across multiple applications and platforms.

The role requires strong expertise in release management, ITSM, and governance, with mentoring and process improvement responsibilities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience in release management or IT change management.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
• Experience with Application Development, IT governance, and UX considerations.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate multiple releases across portfolios and ensure coordinated integration of applications and systems.
• Partner with teams to build release schedules and project milestones.
• Lead build and maintenance of infrastructure for configuration and release management.

Skills

Release management

IT Change Management

ITIL Release Management

ITSM

Agile development

Configuration management

Cross‑team integration

Deployment coordination

Software development lifecycle

Governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Responsibilities

• Manages multiple aspects of technology releases, ensuring the coordinated integration of applications and systems within various portfolio streams.
• Serves as a subject matter expert while partnering with various teams to build release schedule and project plan/milestones for an application and/or project.
• Leads the build and maintenance of the infrastructure for configuration and release management, for new or enhanced application systems.
• Leads the quality check on change releases to ensure processes are following enterprise standards, guidelines and best practices.
• Creates and maintains deployment plan success guides within segments and projects ahead of release execution.
• Oversees configuration management procedures and processes.
• Consults and collaborates with peers to provide oversight and ensure proper use of tools, methods and schedules to enable compliance with the change management process.
• Executes change management processes appropriately.
• Documents release management process improvement opportunities and ensures proper escalation as needed.
• Mentors and trains others on release coordination, deployment, and overall best practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years of industry-relevant experience
• Bachelor’s degree
• Application Development
• Business Management
• Customer Solutions
• Design
• Group Problem Solving
• IT Change Management
• ITIL Release Management
• IT Service Management (ITSM)
• Process Improvements
• Release Management
• Software Solutions
• User Experience (UX) Design
• Agile Development
• Application Delivery Process
• Configuration Management
• Cross-Team Integration
• IT Environment
• IT Governance
• Software Development Life Cycle
• Software Release Management
• System and Technology Integration

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in Release Management and IT Change Management, ensuring compliance with enterprise standards and best practices while leading cross-team integration and process improvements. Proficient in Application Development and Configuration Management, with a strong focus on mentoring and training others in deployment and release coordination.