Release Manager

Release Engineer

Spatial Front, Inc. (SFI) — a two-time USA Today Top Workplaces awardee and Washington Top Workplaces honoree is seeking a Release Engineer to join our growing team.

Work Location: Hybrid (on-site in Arlington, VA as scheduled, remaining days remote)

Job Type: Full-time (W2)

• Lead end-to-end release management activities across multiple ARTs supporting People Soft HCM and related enterprise systems, including release planning, coordination, scheduling, execution, and post-release follow-through.
• Develop and maintain an integrated release calendar, release milestones, deployment windows, and dependency trackers across application, infrastructure, database, security, testing, and support teams.
• Coordinate release scope, readiness, and sequencing for enhancements, fixes, tax updates, People Tools changes, interfaces, batch processes, security changes, and production support items moving across environments.
• Facilitate release governance activities including release planning meetings, readiness reviews, change control coordination, go/no-go assessments, cutover planning, rollback planning, and stakeholder communications.
• Work closely with product owners, scrum masters, release train engineers, developers, testers, infrastructure teams, and client stakeholders to identify dependencies, remove blockers, and ensure release commitments are realistic and traceable.
• Track release risks, issues, decisions, and action items; expedite escalation and drive resolution to protect production stability, schedule adherence, and business continuity.
• Ensure environment readiness and deployment discipline across development, test, staging, and production, including coordination of code migrations, configuration changes, data moves, approvals, and validation activities.
• Develop and maintain release runbooks, checklists, status reporting, release notes, lessons learned, and operational handoff materials to improve repeatability, auditability, and continuous improvement.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• 5+ years of experience in release management, deployment management, or environment coordination for enterprise applications; experience supporting People Soft HCM or similar ERP platforms preferred.
• Hands‑on experience coordinating complex releases across multiple teams or ARTs, including release planning, dependency management, cutover execution, change control, production readiness, and post‑release stabilization.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle, testing cycles, migration practices, configuration management, and release governance; experience with Azure Dev Ops, Jira, or similar work tracking and reporting tools preferred.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen with an active Secret security clearance or the ability to obtain one; experience supporting federal or other highly regulated environments preferred.

• Familiarity with People Soft HCM release cycles, People Tools updates, PUM image adoption, tax/regulatory changes, interfaces, batch processing, and the operational considerations of enterprise ERP releases.
• Experience supporting SAFe or other scaled agile delivery models, including coordination across multiple ARTs, synchronized planning cadences, release trains, and cross‑team dependency management.
• Knowledge of release runbooks, deployment checklists, go/no‑go criteria, rollback planning, change management, incident management, and production support practices that reduce release risk and improve stability.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical teams, business stakeholders, client leadership, and operations personnel, including presentation of release status, readiness, risks, and recommendations.

• Clearance:
  Must be a U.S. Citizen with an active Secret security clearance or the ability to obtain one.
• Work Environment:
  Hybrid (on-site in Arlington, VA as scheduled, remaining days remote)
• Benefits:
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• This is a full‑time, W2 position.
• No agencies, third parties, or Corp‑to‑Corp submissions.
• Spatial Front Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer — all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status.
• SFI participates in E‑Verify.