Release Engineer II (REMOTE)

Overview

The Release Engineer II oversees planning, scheduling, and deployment of software releases across the enterprise, ensuring seamless integration, minimal disruption, and alignment with organizational objectives. The goal for this position is to have improved deployment frequency, shortened lead time between fixes, and quicker recovery time in the event of failure.

Job Purpose & Responsibilities

• Schedules, manages, and coordinates software releases across multiple applications within various portfolios, spanning different teams and projects.
• Ensures releases are executed smoothly while balancing competing priorities across the organization.
• Planning and managing release windows and cycles across portfolios and system components, ensuring alignment with business objectives, technical dependencies, and delivery timelines.
• Creating, maintaining, and publishing a centralized release calendar that provides visibility into release activity and aligns product milestones across multiple teams.
• Identifying, managing, and mitigating risks that may impact release scope, quality, or schedules, resolving challenges proactively to maintain stability and predictability in the release process.
• Making sure progress is measured and monitored to ensure timely software delivery within defined quality standards.
• Working closely with development, quality assurance, and product management teams to minimize rollbacks, hotfixes, and post-release issues.
• Clear and consistent communication is essential, including sharing critical release plans, changes, and status updates.
• Monitoring the release process end-to-end and gathering feedback from internal teams and customers to inform continuous improvement.
• Aligning schedules across dependent systems while integrating Agile and DevOps principles into release trains, enabling coordinated and scalable delivery across the enterprise.
• Continuously improving release management processes, tools, and practices to increase efficiency and reliability.
• Conducting release readiness assessments and milestone reviews to ensure all technical, operational, and business requirements are met prior to deployment.
• Developing comprehensive release notes that translate technical changes into clear, business-relevant impacts for customers and internal stakeholders.
• Building and maintaining tools that support deployment, testing, and operation within stable and scalable environments through effective configuration management.
• Supporting the transition from fragmented, application-centric release practices to a mature enterprise release model by embedding AI-powered capabilities such as predictive risk analysis, automated change validation, and intelligent scheduling across release and configuration management solutions.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Experience working with Jenkins, Github actions, containerization
• Working experience with deployment tooling
• Deep understanding of CI/CD workflows
• A working understanding of branching strategies
• Experience with developing workflows for automated deployments
• Experience building Dashboards to report on Release Metrics
• Streamlining RM/Deployment Procedures utilizing AI
• Jira/Confluence, Jenkins, Eazy BI, Power BI

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent
• 7 - 10 years of relevant experience, preferably in release management

Virtual Requirements

At DICK’S, we thrive on innovation and authenticity. That said, to protect the integrity and security of our hiring process, we ask that candidates do not use AI tools (like ChatGPT or others) during interviews or assessments. To ensure a smooth and secure experience, please note the following:

• Cameras must be on during all virtual interviews.
• AI tools are not permitted to be used by the candidate during any part of the interview process.

Targeted Pay Range

This is part of a competitive total rewards package that could include other components such as: incentive, equity and benefits. Individual pay is determined by a number of factors including experience, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We review all teammate pay regularly to ensure competitive and equitable pay.

DICK'S Sporting Goods complies with all state paid leave requirements. We also offer a generous suite of benefits. To learn more, visit www.benefityourliferesources.com.