Release Management Executive Advisor

Elevance Health • Indianapolis, IN

2d • $145,152 - $217,728 • Hybrid

About The Position

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. The 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.

Requirements

• Requires a minimum of 10 years' experience in information technology project management.

Nice To Haves

• 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.
• High comfort level making risk-based released recommendations is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end release planning for assigned applications and platforms
• Build and maintain release calendars, including quarterly, monthly, and ad-hoc releases
• Coordinate 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

Benefits

• a comprehensive benefits package
• incentive and recognition programs
• equity stock purchase
• 401k contribution
• merit increases
• paid holidays
• Paid Time Off
• incentive bonus programs
• medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, stock purchase plan, life insurance, wellness programs and financial education resources

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: Associate degree