Release Management Executive Advisor

About the role

The Release Management Executive Advisor is responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing FEP application releases across multiple teams and environments, ensuring releases are predictable, well-governed, and aligned with business priorities. This role serves as the central coordination point between application teams, infrastructure, operations, testing, and business stakeholders. The Release Manager does not act as a developer or QA lead, but must deeply understand SDLC, environments, dependencies, and operational risk.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end release planning for assigned applications and platforms
• Build and maintain release calendars, including quarterly, monthly, and ad-hoc releases
• Cover scope, sequencing, and timing across multiple applications and teams
• Ensure releases align to enterprise release windows and constraints
• Identify and manage cross-team dependencies, integration points, and downstream impacts
• Proactively surface release risks, conflicts, and readiness gaps
• Drive mitigation plans and re-sequencing when conflicts arise
• Balance speed-to-market with stability and operational risk
• Enforce established release, change, and implementation management processes
• Ensure releases meet required approval, documentation, and readiness criteria
• Participate in or support CAB, release readiness, and go/no-go forums
• Apply lessons learned from incidents or outages to improve release discipline

Requirements

• Requires a minimum of 10 years' experience in information technology project management
• BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study strongly preferred
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification and/or knowledge of project management methodologies with experience in managing multiple releases in a time sensitive environment strongly preferred
• Extensive experience managing complex conflicting release priorities in a timely manner is strongly preferred
• Ability to handle "late-breaking" defects or readiness gaps is strongly preferred
• Experience coordinating tasks across distributed and offshore teams is strongly preferred
• A high comfort level making risk-based released recommendations is strongly preferred

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years' experience in information technology project management
• Preferred: BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study
• Preferred: Project Management Professional (PMP) certification and/or knowledge of project management methodologies
• Preferred: Extensive experience managing complex conflicting release priorities in a timely manner
• Preferred: Ability to handle "late-breaking" defects or readiness gaps
• Preferred: Experience coordinating tasks across distributed and offshore teams
• Preferred: High comfort level making risk-based released recommendations

Skills

• Deep understanding of SDLC, environments, dependencies, and operational risk
• Strong ability to coordinate tasks across distributed and offshore teams
• High comfort level making risk-based released recommendations

Benefits

For candidates working in person or virtually in the below location(s), the salary* range for this specific position is $145,152.00-$217,728.00. Locations: Maryland. In addition to your salary, Elevance Health offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements).

Pay

For candidates working in person or virtually in the below location(s), the salary* range for this specific position is $145,152.00-$217,728.00. Locations: Maryland. In addition to your salary, Elevance Health offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements).

Schedule

This role requires associates to be in-office 3 days per week, fostering collaboration and connectivity, while providing flexibility to support productivity and work-life balance. This approach combines structured office engagement with the autonomy of virtual work, promoting a dynamic and adaptable workplace. Alternate locations may be considered.