Technical Release Coordinator

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $89.8k - $125.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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Horace Mann

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1945

🛡️ Insurance

💸 Finance

📚 Education

Insurance • Finance • Education

Horace Mann is a company that provides comprehensive insurance and financial solutions tailored for educators and public sector workers. The company offers a wide range of insurance options including auto, home, renters, liability, life, and supplemental insurance. In addition to insurance, Horace Mann provides retirement and financial strategies, such as 529 College Savings Plans, investment management, and student loan solutions designed specifically to help educators. They are committed to supporting educators through various programs, workshops, webinars, and partnership initiatives that aid in professional and personal financial wellness. Horace Mann is recognized for its strong financial stability and ethical governance practices, ensuring security and privacy for its nearly one million educator clients across the nation.

📋 Description

• Coordinate regularly scheduled releases, out-of-cycle deployments, and emergency fixes across multiple teams • Facilitate release-planning meetings to determine scope, sequencing, timelines, dependencies, and deployment requirements • Develop and document release recommendations, including scope, schedules, deliverables, testing requirements, implementation steps, and risk-mitigation and rollback plans • Establish release-readiness criteria and track projects through the change-ticket lifecycle • Ensure change tickets include testing documentation, implementation instructions, approvals, and rollback plans • Create and maintain release calendars, configuration plans, deployment schedules, and stakeholder communications • Prepare for and participate in Change Advisory Board meetings, deployment-planning sessions, and implementation-readiness reviews • Identify scheduling conflicts, missing requirements, technical dependencies, and risks affecting release outcomes • Direct off-hours release activities, including deployment coordination, status reporting, issue escalation, and resolution • Coordinate mock deployments, pre-production checklists, production implementation, and post-production verification • Compile and review deployment and validation instructions with development and technical teams • Package and stage production-ready release artifacts • Coordinate infrastructure-resource and environment provisioning and readiness • Establish and enforce build-management, release-management, and production-change controls • Provide input on code-branching and code-merge strategies • Collaborate with technical resources to improve and automate build and deployment processes • Communicate release status, business impact, expected duration, issues, and outcomes before, during, and after deployments • Lead release-review meetings, capture lessons learned, and improve future releases • Maintain release templates, process documentation, procedures, and best practices • Promote continuous improvement across change, build, configuration, and release-management processes

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience • More than five years of technology experience, including one to four years of relevant experience coordinating projects or software releases across multiple teams • Experience managing releases of varying size, scope, complexity, and business impact • Knowledge of the software development lifecycle • Experience working with change management processes and production deployments • Hands-on software development experience using object-oriented programming concepts • Experience with code merges, branching strategies, build processes, and deployment activities • General understanding of Agile development practices • General understanding of ITIL practices • Ability to participate in scheduled off-hours, weekend, or emergency release activities • Strong planning, organization, and project-coordination skills • Ability to manage multiple releases, deadlines, and technical dependencies simultaneously • Strong risk-identification, problem-solving, and escalation skills • Ability to communicate technical release information clearly to technical and nontechnical stakeholders • Strong attention to detail and commitment to accurate documentation • Ability to influence teams and drive activities to completion without direct authority • Sound judgment when evaluating release readiness, risk, and production impact • Ability to remain composed and make timely decisions during high-impact deployments or production issues • Commitment to process improvement, operational stability, and high-quality release outcomes