9th Way Insignia

Release Manager – Scrum Master

9th Way Insignia

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $86,896 - $102,632 per year

Job Level

SeniorLead

Tech Stack

Azure

About the role

  • Facilitate Agile delivery for enhancements and fixes using clearly defined user stories, sprint planning, backlog refinement, acceptance criteria, and end-to-end traceability to requirements.
  • Coordinate with VA stakeholders to prioritize work, remove impediments, and ensure the team delivers committed sprint and release outcomes.
  • Lead end-to-end release planning and execution within the EASS configuration management and release management process, ensuring releases meet documented requirements, readiness is confirmed, and stakeholders accept and validate operational stability.
  • Develop and maintain the Requirements Verification Report (RVR) each release cycle to document verification status and confirm requirements are satisfied through appropriate testing and validation.
  • Develop Deployment Plans for each release that define roles and responsibilities across environments, release schedules, readiness and operational requirements, infrastructure needs, installation steps, rollback considerations, and required supporting artifacts; coordinate formal reviews with program stakeholders.
  • Plan and facilitate recurring release schedule meetings with all parties involved in release implementation.
  • Produce Release Notes within required timelines after each release, ensuring notes are complete, standardized, and include impacted components and interfaces.
  • Coordinate monthly (or as-needed) patches and minor updates, ensuring releases and bug-fix deployments are executed reliably and predictably.
  • Coordinate updates to Interface Control Documents (ICDs) following interface changes and ensure interface documentation remains current with each applicable release.
  • Develop and maintain Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTMs) to ensure requirements are fully tracked from intake through development, testing, verification, and deployment.
  • Support configuration management policies and procedures, including controlled updates to configuration items, repository maintenance, and ensuring appropriate access and auditability of release artifacts.
  • Manage software change requests from intake through production implementation, tracking approvals and status, maintaining CM documentation, providing regular CM updates, and producing meeting notes/minutes within required timeframes.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree (or 4 years equivalent experience in lieu of a degree).
  • 7+ years of relevant IT delivery experience, including Agile/Scrum execution and release management in an enterprise environment.
  • 1+ years of experience leading teams and/or serving in a formal delivery leadership capacity aligned to a Level 4 Project Manager.
  • Demonstrated ability to plan, coordinate, and execute recurring releases, patches, and production deployments, including readiness coordination and post-release validation.
  • Proven experience ensuring requirements discipline (user stories, acceptance criteria, and traceability from intake through deployment).
  • Experience managing configuration/change activities, including tracking change requests through approval, implementation, and documentation updates.
  • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including facilitation of delivery ceremonies and production of release artifacts (deployment plans, release notes, schedules, and meeting minutes).
  • Proficiency with common delivery and collaboration tools (e.g., Jira/Azure DevOps, Confluence/SharePoint, Microsoft Teams).
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance at the Tier 2 (Moderate Risk) level (active preferred).
Benefits
  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Voluntary Life Insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Basic Life A&D
  • STD
  • LTD
  • PTO
  • Telehealth
  • paid holidays
  • FSA
  • HSA
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Traveling Assistance

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
AgileScrumrelease managementrequirements verificationrequirements traceabilityconfiguration managementchange managementdeployment planningtestingvalidation
Soft skills
stakeholder managementcommunicationfacilitationplanningcoordinationleadershiporganizationproblem-solvingteam collaborationmeeting management
Certifications
Bachelor's degreePublic Trust clearance (Tier 2)