Release Orchestrator-Architect Role(Onsite) Overland Park, KS
About The Position
A Release Orchestrator provides operational discipline and cross-functional coordination to deliver software changes safely, predictably, and efficiently. The role manages release readiness, risk mitigation, stakeholder communication, and deployment governance to improve software quality, reduce service disruptions, and enable engineering teams to focus on business value. The position manages release activities and release agents, defines approval gates, supervises autonomous deployment workflows, coordinates human and AI delivery streams, and manages exception handling. The role partners with engineering, product, operations, and business teams to establish shared accountability and improve software delivery practices.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in software delivery, release management, DevOps, engineering operations, program management, or a related technology environment.
- Experience coordinating complex software releases across multiple engineering teams, products, and stakeholders, with a focus on quality, readiness, and predictable delivery.
- Working knowledge of modern CI/CD practices, deployment automation, cloud environments, and software development lifecycles.
- Experience establishing and managing release readiness criteria, approval gates, deployment controls, risk mitigation, and exception-management processes.
- Ability to oversee automated and autonomous deployment workflows while balancing speed and innovation with governance and human oversight.
- Strong problem-solving skills, including the ability to assess release risks, dependencies, exceptions, and potential service impacts and drive issues toward resolution.
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate Engineering, Product, Quality, Cloud/DevOps, Support, and business stakeholders around shared release objectives.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills, including the ability to translate complex technical release information into clear updates for technical and business audiences.
- Continuous-improvement mindset and ability to identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and strengthen software delivery practices.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-moving, highly collaborative environment where priorities evolve and delivery depends on partnership and accountability.
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States; visa sponsorship is not provided.
- Post-offer candidates must successfully complete a pre-employment background check, including a drug screen.
Nice To Haves
- Interest in or experience with AI-enabled software delivery, including environments where human teams and AI-powered agents or automation work together to support development and deployment.
Responsibilities
- Manage release activities.
- Manage release agents.
- Define approval gates.
- Supervise autonomous deployment workflows.
- Coordinate human and AI delivery streams.
- Manage exception handling.
- Coordinate complex software releases across engineering teams, products, and stakeholders.
- Establish and manage release readiness criteria, deployment controls, risk mitigation, and exception-management processes.
- Oversee automated and autonomous deployment workflows with appropriate governance and human oversight.
- Assess release risks, dependencies, exceptions, and potential service impacts, and drive issues toward resolution.
- Align Engineering, Product, Quality, Cloud/DevOps, Support, and business stakeholders around shared release objectives.
- Communicate release readiness, risk, and status information to technical and business audiences.
- Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and strengthen software delivery practices.
- Communicate openly, surface concerns early, and keep stakeholders aligned throughout the release lifecycle.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
