Technical Release Lead: Orchestrating Seamless Deployments

Horace Mann Company; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

ViziRecruiter, LLC is seeking a Technical Release Coordinator to manage and coordinate technology releases across multiple teams and applications. You will own release schedules, readiness activities, deployment communications, change-management documentation, and post-release reviews.

The role partners with development teams, Scrum teams, infrastructure resources, project leaders, and business stakeholders to ensure releases are properly planned, tested, approved, deployed, and validated.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• More than five years of technology experience, including coordinating projects or software releases across multiple teams.
• Experience managing releases of varying size, scope, complexity, and business impact.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate regularly scheduled releases, out-of-cycle deployments, and emergency fixes across multiple teams.
• Facilitate release-planning meetings to determine scope, sequencing, timelines, dependencies, and deployment requirements.
• Develop and document release recommendations including scope, deliverables, testing requirements, and rollback plans.
• Establish release-readiness criteria and track projects through the change-ticket lifecycle.
• Create and maintain release calendars, deployment schedules, and stakeholder communications.

Skills

Planning

Coordination

Communication

Risk management

Off-hours deployment

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT or related

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Release-management tools

Change-management processes

Job description

ViziRecruiter, LLC is seeking a Technical Release Coordinator to manage and coordinate technology releases across multiple teams and applications. You will own release schedules, readiness activities, deployment communications, change-management documentation, and post-release reviews.

The role partners with development teams, Scrum teams, infrastructure resources, project leaders, and business stakeholders to ensure releases are properly planned, tested, approved, deployed, and validated.