Release Manager

Spatial Front, Inc

Release Engineer managing and coordinating PeopleSoft platform releases for federal organizations in a hybrid work environment. Leading release activities, ensuring production stability and governance practices are adhered to.

Posted 6/9/2026full-timeArlington • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureERP

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead end-to-end release management activities across multiple ARTs supporting PeopleSoft HCM and related enterprise systems, including release planning, coordination, scheduling, execution, and post-release follow-through.
Develop and maintain an integrated release calendar, release milestones, deployment windows, and dependency trackers across application, infrastructure, database, security, testing, and support teams.
Coordinate release scope, readiness, and sequencing for enhancements, fixes, tax updates, PeopleTools changes, interfaces, batch processes, security changes, and production support items moving across environments.
Facilitate release governance activities including release planning meetings, readiness reviews, change control coordination, go/no-go assessments, cutover planning, rollback planning, and stakeholder communications.
Work closely with product owners, scrum masters, release train engineers, developers, testers, infrastructure teams, and client stakeholders to identify dependencies, remove blockers, and ensure release commitments are realistic and traceable.
Track release risks, issues, decisions, and action items; escalate appropriately and drive resolution to protect production stability, schedule adherence, and business continuity.
Ensure environment readiness and deployment discipline across development, test, staging, and production, including coordination of code migrations, configuration changes, data moves, approvals, and validation activities.
Develop and maintain release runbooks, checklists, status reporting, release notes, lessons learned, and operational handoff materials to improve repeatability, auditability, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
5+ years of experience in release management, deployment management, or environment coordination for enterprise applications; experience supporting PeopleSoft HCM or similar ERP platforms preferred.
Hands-on experience coordinating complex releases across multiple teams or ARTs, including release planning, dependency management, cutover execution, change control, production readiness, and post-release stabilization.
Strong understanding of software development lifecycle, testing cycles, migration practices, configuration management, and release governance; experience with Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar work tracking and reporting tools preferred.
Must be a U.S. Citizen with an active Secret security clearance or the ability to obtain one; experience supporting federal or other highly regulated environments preferred.

Benefits

Comp & perks

For more information, visit: http://www.spatialfront.com/pages/career.html
This is a full-time, W2 position.
No agencies, third parties, or Corp-to-Corp submissions.
Spatial Front Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer — all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status.
SFI participates in E-Verify.

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Hard Skills & Tools

release managementdeployment managementenvironment coordinationdependency managementchange controlproduction readinesspost-release stabilizationsoftware development lifecycleconfiguration managementrelease governance

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationcoordinationproblem-solvingstakeholder management

Certifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's degree in Information SystemsBachelor's degree in EngineeringBachelor's degree in BusinessSecret security clearance