Description
Release Manager
Xcelerate Solutions is seeking a Release Manager. As a Release Manager you will provide technical and administrative oversight, management, and execution of the entire release management lifecycle for the D3P system. You will work closely with the Systems Engineers, Software Engineers, Architects, and Operations Engineering/Manager as well as Government counterparts to perform and manage the full spectrum of release management tasks to include requirements tracking, release cycle management, release notes, system integration, system testing, production deployment planning, as well as leading deployment process and associated documentation. You will manage risks, escalate impediments, and help to drive continuous process improvement.
Location: Bethesda, MD
Clearance: Must possess TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI with Polygraph.
Responsibilities:
- Manage and oversee the entire software release effort to successfully deploy software releases to production throughout the CI/CD pipeline
- Lead software release meetings and oversee system integration team execution to deliver product on schedule
- Obtain solid understanding of software features to plan for current and upcoming releases
- Document release rollout plans/tasks, risks and maintain schedule for release rollouts
- Hold regular release tag-ups/scrum and document minutes/actions/status
- Track down action items across program teams to keep the team on schedule
- Generate work tickets for release tasks and assign to team members
- Participate in program increment planning, scrum of scrums, bug triage and other pertinent meetings
- Coordinate with test team members on release/hotfix testing
- Coordinate release management activities with software development team lead, configuration manager and program manager
- Establish release processes, perform process improvements, and document processes
- Report release status to PMO and Customer as needed
- Develop and maintain systems engineering documentation and diagrams/models working incoordination/collaborationwith Lead SE and SE team members
- Contribute to establishing SE processes and tools to accomplish analysis, problem diagnosis and solution design, integration and test preparation, risk assessment and mitigation planning, and related activities
- Hold Agile ceremony meetings with the software development team
- Assist with resolution of technical issues that adversely impact successful product delivery
- Assist with identifying and supporting external dependencies where needed
Minimum Requirements:
- BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field with 8+ years in software development, release management, system engineering or related field
- Must have an active TS/SCI with ability to obtain a polygraph security clearance.
- At least 4+ years' experience working as a software Release Manager, Release Train engineer, or Agile Product Owner
- Demonstrable experience in release management cycle to include hotfixes, defect tracking, production operations status Demonstrable knowledge with managing and overseeing entire release reporting
- Demonstrable experience in documenting releases, risks and in maintaining the schedule of planned releases and ability to lead software release meetings and oversee release team execution to deliver product on-time
- Experience/knowledge of key Agile processes and techniques
- Experience with facilitating scrum for the team (Planning, Retrospective, Backlog Refinement & Review/Demo)
- Experience with tools for ticketing and documentation (e.g., Gitlab, Jira, Confluence).
- Knowledge of systems engineering concepts (requirements, design, etc.), systems engineering processes, and applying these concepts to software-intensive systems and release management cadence
- Familiarity with GitFlow development model
- Familiarity with continuous integration/continuous development tools (e.g., Gitlab, Jenkins, Bamboo)
- Experience with leading technical teams
- Strong written and verbal communication skills are required to collaborate with testers, systems engineers, architects, software developers, management as well as ability to work with multiple teams to release software
Preferred Qualifications:
- Software development/coding experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, and React
- Experience and domain knowledge related to data processing
- Scaled Agile Framework certification (SAFe Agilist or other)
- Experience with creating design packages and workflows
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Xcelerate Solutions
Jun 26, 2025