Establish and evolve a holistic Release & Deployment strategy, enabling predictable, scalable delivery across multiple products and customer environments.
Serve as the primary governance authority for release readiness, quality compliance, deployment approvals, and production promotion.
Define and enforce release policies, SLAs, and success criteria to ensure consistency across all teams.
Strengthen deployment pipelines by driving automation, standardization, and quality controls that reduce risk and increase speed.
Develop and maintain a comprehensive roadmap for continuous improvement of release tooling, deployment processes, and environment reliability.
Identify systemic issues, root causes, and process gaps—then implement long term solutions.
Lead collaboration with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure/Operations, Customer Delivery, and Support to ensure alignment from planning through post release validation.
Act as a trusted advisor to internal and external stakeholders—translating release impacts, risks, and dependencies in a clear and timely manner.
Drive consensus and influence leaders across functions to solve complex, ambiguous ecosystem challenges.
Oversee complex code deployments, database synchronization efforts, and DevOps practices across multiple customer and internal environments.
Ensure environments are maintained in a known good, stable, compliant state through structured monitoring, validation, and documentation.
Lead modernization efforts— including migrations from legacy release architecture to more scalable, cloud driven and automated models.
Mentor and develop Release Managers, fostering a culture of ownership, operational rigor, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

7+ years of experience in software implementation, release engineering, deployment coordination, or large scale environment management—including complex application migrations.
3–5+ years leading teams (Release Managers, Engineers, DevOps, or related technical teams).
Proven ability to scale processes, teams, and operating models in a fast-moving environment.
Experience influencing senior leadership and driving cross-functional initiatives in matrixed organizations.
Expert understanding of the SDLC, deployment architectures, change governance, and integrated system dependencies.
Strong analytical skills for diagnosing release failures, environment drift, integration breakpoints, and scaling bottlenecks.
Demonstrated excellence in communication—simplifying complex technical issues for executives and customers.
Senior-level governance and deep technical leadership across the full release, deployment, and environment management lifecycle.
Experience with major DevOps and environment management tooling, including strategic oversight of complex CI/CD ecosystems (i.e. Jenkins).
Expertise establishing policies and controls, defining enterprise Git strategies, overseeing Jira, ensuring release and deployment processes are supported by robust observability frameworks.

Benefits

HealthEdge commits to building an environment and culture that supports the diverse representation of our teams.
Equal opportunity employer encouraging all qualified applicants.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

release engineeringdeployment coordinationenvironment managementapplication migrationsSDLCdeployment architectureschange governanceanalytical skillsCI/CDGit strategies

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationcollaborationinfluenceproblem-solvingmentoringanalytical thinkingstrategic oversightconsensus buildingcontinuous improvement