Release Engineer, Warehouse Transformation

Cardinal Health•Dublin, OH

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Cardinal Health is seeking a Release Engineer to lead iteration and release management activities supporting mission critical warehouse transformation initiatives on Program Motion. This role is responsible for end to end release planning, readiness, execution, and governance across multiple teams, platforms, and environments. The Release Manager operates at both the delivery execution and program level, ensuring release plans are integrated, dependencies are managed, risks are transparent, and stakeholders have the information needed to make timely, data driven decisions. This role works closely with Solution Owners, Agile Transformation Facilitators (Scrum Masters), Engineering, Testing, Ops Tech, Cutover Lead, and peer Release Managers to align releases with deployment and cutover strategies. Over time, this role may evolve to lead release management across the broader Pharma Supply Chain IT landscape, expanding scope beyond individual programs to drive consistency and scalability. The successful candidate embraces the responsible use of enterprise AI capabilities to enhance release analytics, readiness assessment, artifact generation, and overall delivery predictability while applying strong DevOps, CI/CD, and versioning discipline.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in Release Engineering preferred or Release Management within Agile and DevOps delivery environments preferred.
Strong experience with Jira and Confluence for planning, dependency management, tracking, and reporting.
Demonstrated expertise in DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, GitHub, and modern branching and release strategies.
Experience working within cloud-based and enterprise-scale engineering ecosystems.
Proven ability to use AI-assisted techniques to support release analysis, artifact creation, risk identification, and delivery insights.
Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical information into clear, actionable messages.
Ability to operate effectively in cross-functional, geographically distributed teams.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead iteration and release management ceremonies, including release planning, readiness reviews, and post-release communications.
Develop, maintain, and govern an integrated release calendar, ensuring alignment across teams, platforms, environments, and business priorities.
Coordinate with Solution Owners, Scrum Masters, Engineering, Testing, SRE, and Operations to align scope, sequencing, dependencies, and deployment timelines.
Partner closely with the Cutover Lead to align release plans with cutover strategies, mock cutovers, go-live windows, rollback approaches, and deployment freezes.
Provide release readiness inputs (code, environment, testing, deployment validation) to support cutover governance, Go/No-Go decisions, and execution runbooks.
Collaborate with Release Managers from other teams and platforms to synchronize cross-application releases, manage shared dependencies, and ensure end-to-end business readiness.
Apply and guide branching, versioning, and release strategies aligned with GitHub workflows and CI/CD pipelines.
Identify, document, and actively manage release risks, issues, and dependencies through RAID logs and mitigation planning.
Communicate release status, impacts, and outcomes effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Leverage AI-assisted tools to aggregate delivery data (e.g., Jira, pipelines, test results), generate release artifacts, identify risk signals, and improve decision quality.
Continuously assess and improve release processes through automation, standardization, metrics, and best-practice adoption.