Enterprise Release Manager - Bethesda, MD (Weekly 3 Days onsite)

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Position: Enterprise Release Manager

Location: Bethesda, MD (Weekly 3 Days onsite)

Job Description:

• Release Governance & Strategy: Defining the enterprise-wide operating model and standards for how software moves from development to production.
• Orchestration & Planning: Managing a centralized "calendar-of-record" to synchronize releases across independent teams, ensuring infrastructure and test environments are ready.
• Risk & Dependency Management: Identifying "collision" risks where overlapping releases might cause outages and determining optimal rollback or recovery paths.
• Transformation Leadership: Leading the transition from traditional waterfall or hybrid models to modern, automated CI/CD pipelines
• Expert level Knowledge of SDLC for SAFe Agile environments; best-in-class Release and Change Management framework and IT Service Management. Hands-on experience with Jira Align, Jira Cloud, JSM, GitHub, Salesforce. Strong understanding of release/change lifecycle and Outage root cause analysis.
• Release Planning & Coordination: Develop and execute comprehensive release plans for software and infrastructure deployments. Align schedules across dependent systems and integrate Agile and DevOps principles into release trains.
• Risk & Issue Management: Use predictive analytics and AI-driven insights to identify, track, and mitigate risks. Proactively manage release-level jeopardies and determine optimal release paths.
• Enterprise-wide Release Calendar Management: Ensure proactive visibility, collision avoidance, and post-change learning across IT, Infrastructure, Network, and Operations to prevent service conflicts and outages.
• Deployment & Monitoring: Oversee end-to-end deployment activities using CI/CD pipelines and automation tools. Ensure rapid issue resolution to minimize downtime.