Technical Release Lead - Remote Deployments

Horace Mann - Agent Opportunities; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

Horace Mann - Agent Opportunities seeks a Technical Release Coordinator to manage multi-team technology releases. You will own release schedules, readiness activities, deployment communications, change-management documentation, and post-release reviews.

You will coordinate with development, Scrum, and IT teams to ensure releases are planned, tested, deployed, and validated. Remote work is supported, with some off-hours responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of technology experience including coordinating projects or software releases across multiple teams.
• Experience managing releases of varying size, scope, complexity, and business impact.
• Knowledge of the software development lifecycle.
• Experience with change management processes and production deployments.
• Hands-on software development experience using object-oriented programming concepts.
• Experience with code merges, branching strategies, build processes, and deployment activities.
• General understanding of Agile development practices.
• General understanding of ITIL practices.
• Ability to participate in scheduled off-hours, weekend, or emergency release activities.

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 release scope and schedule, deliverables, testing, implementation steps, and risk-mitigation/rollback plans.
• Establish release-readiness criteria and track projects through the change-ticket lifecycle.
• Ensure change tickets include testing documentation, implementation instructions, approvals, and rollback plans.
• Create and maintain the release calendar, configuration plan, deployment schedule, and stakeholder communications.
• Prepare for and participate in Change Advisory Board meetings and deployment-planning sessions.
• Identify scheduling conflicts, missing requirements, technical dependencies, and risks affecting release outcomes.
• Direct off-hours release activities, including deployment coordination, status reporting, and issue escalation/resolution.
• Coordinate mock deployments, pre-production checklists, production implementation, and post-production verification.
• Compile and review deployment instructions with development/technical teams.
• Package and stage production-ready release artifacts.
• Coordinate provisioning and readiness of infrastructure resources/environments.
• Establish controls for build management, release management, and production change control.
• Provide input on code-branching and code-merge strategies to project teams.
• Collaborate to improve and automate build/deployment processes.
• Communicate release status and impact before, during, and after deployments.
• Lead release-review meetings and capture lessons learned for future releases.
• Maintain release templates, process docs, procedures, and best practices.
• Promote continuous improvement across change/build/configuration/release-management.

Skills

Release coordination

Project coordination

Stakeholder communication

Risk management

Off-hours deployment coordination

Change management

Agile experience

ITIL familiarity

SDLC knowledge

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / IT or related field

Equivalent professional experience

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Release-management tools

Git / Source control

IT governance tooling

Job description

Horace Mann - Agent Opportunities seeks a Technical Release Coordinator to manage multi-team technology releases. You will own release schedules, readiness activities, deployment communications, change-management documentation, and post-release reviews.

You will coordinate with development, Scrum, and IT teams to ensure releases are planned, tested, deployed, and validated. Remote work is supported, with some off-hours responsibilities.