Senior Release & Configuration Engineer, Integrated Solutions

Wabtec Corporation; Cedar Rapids (IA); On-site; USD 105,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Annual bonus

Job summary

Integrated Solutions Release & Configuration Engineer at Wabtec Corporation drives the end-to-end release and configuration management across multiple products and systems. You will define baselines, ensure traceability, and coordinate plans with product, DevOps, quality, cybersecurity, and field services to achieve deployment readiness.

Your role emphasizes process improvement, authoritative release manifests, BOMs, and audit readiness, while guiding teams toward automation and standardization

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline.
• Typically 8+ years of experience in release management, configuration management, systems engineering, DevOps, product lifecycle management, or a related technical discipline.
• Demonstrated experience managing software and documentation baselines throughout an engineering lifecycle.
• Experience coordinating complex, multi-product releases across cross-functional engineering organizations.
• Working knowledge of configuration management standards and practices (SAE EIA-649, ISO 10007, IEEE 828).
• Experience with lifecycle tools such as DOORS Next, Polarion, Jama Connect, or similar.
• Experience with source control and release tools (Git, Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, Artifactory, Nexus).
• Experience with PLM, document control, and service management platforms (Teamcenter, Windchill, SharePoint, ServiceNow).
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, facilitation, and communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to drive process improvements and lead initiatives with limited guidance.
• Experience in transportation, industrial automation, safety-critical systems, or other regulated industries preferred.
• Advanced degree and/or certifications such as PMP, INCOSE CSEP, CMII, ASQ CQE, ITIL, or SAFe preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the execution and continuous improvement of release and configuration management processes for integrated solutions spanning multiple products and systems.
• Establish and maintain configuration identification and baseline definitions for software, requirements, specifications, interfaces, architecture artifacts, test assets, deployment packages, and supporting documentation.
• Maintain traceability across requirements, constituent-system versions, interface revisions, change records, verification evidence, and deployed configurations.
• Facilitate solution-level change control and release readiness activities, ensuring technical impacts, dependencies, risks, and deployment considerations are appropriately evaluated.
• Develop and coordinate integrated release plans that align delivery schedules, dependencies, version compatibility requirements, and deployment readiness across participating product teams.
• Manage controlled release and distribution of technical specifications, requirements, interface definitions, architecture documentation, verification artifacts, and release records.
• Partner with engineering, quality, cybersecurity, and testing teams to verify release candidates satisfy established technical, quality, and compliance requirements.
• Publish and maintain authoritative release manifests, Bills of Materials (BOMs), compatibility matrices, configuration records, and deployment documentation.
• Conduct configuration status accounting, audit preparation, and configuration verification activities to ensure released solutions align with approved baselines.
• Support deployment readiness, release authorization activities, rollback planning, post-release validation, and reconciliation of field changes into controlled baselines.
• Analyze release, deployment, and configuration issues; lead root-cause investigations; and drive corrective actions to improve release quality and configuration integrity.
• Mentor project teams on configuration management, release management, traceability, and lifecycle best practices while promoting automation and process standardization.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Communication

Stakeholder influence

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS/IS/Math

Tools

DOORS Next

Polarion

Jama Connect

Git

Azure DevOps

GitHub Enterprise

GitLab

Jenkins

Artifactory

Nexus

Teamcenter

Windchill

SharePoint

ServiceNow

Job description

Integrated Solutions Release & Configuration Engineer at Wabtec Corporation drives the end-to-end release and configuration management across multiple products and systems. You will define baselines, ensure traceability, and coordinate plans with product, DevOps, quality, cybersecurity, and field services to achieve deployment readiness.

Your role emphasizes process improvement, authoritative release manifests, BOMs, and audit readiness, while guiding teams toward automation and standardization