Release Specialist
Listed on 2026-07-16
-
IT/Tech
IT Project Manager, Change Management
Location: Indianapolis
Application Change and Release Specialist
Date Posted:
Jul 10, 2026
Requisition
Location:
Indianapolis, IN, US, 46204
Begin a fulfilling career with the State of Indiana by joining one of the largest employers in the state, offering a range of opportunities across 60+ agencies. At the state, you'll find competitive compensation, a robust benefits package and a commitment to work-life balance. Most importantly, you'll have the chance to make a real and measurable impact on the lives of Hoosiers across Indiana.
About the Indiana Department of Transportation: INDOT provides a dynamic workplace that serves Indiana citizens, improves our state’s quality of life, and enhances its economic opportunity. INDOT has a number of innovative programs and projects, including Public-Private Partnerships, Green Initiatives, and cutting‑edge uses of materials and assets. As part of the State of Indiana, INDOT offers a competitive total compensation package, as well as outstanding work/life balance.
Whether you are an established professional in the transportation field or just starting your career, INDOT has exciting and challenging opportunities for you.
Role Overview:
The Application Change and Release Specialist oversees INDOT’s enterprise release calendar and ensures software updates move through controlled environments in a structured, traceable, and low‑risk manner. In this role, you will coordinate release scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, and readiness across multiple teams delivering applications in parallel. You will lead release planning and go/no‑go reviews to confirm test completion, defect status, deployment sequencing, and rollback preparedness.
The position governs code promotion across SIT, UAT, staging, and production, ensuring all changes are properly authorized and deployment‑ready. You will manage release communications, deployment schedules, business notifications, and post‑release validation. Additionally, this role includes supervising the application change and release management team to ensure consistent governance and successful delivery.
This role requires 5+ years of experience in release or environment management, including work with .NET or Salesforce releases. Candidates should bring strong knowledge of deployment processes, promotion controls, metadata movement, and the overall release lifecycle. They must be able to manage integrated release calendars, cross‑team dependencies, cutover plans, and readiness activities while maintaining solid change control, governance, risk awareness, and rollback planning.
Proficiency with Azure Dev Ops, Service Now, and standard Microsoft tools is important, along with strong communication and stakeholder‑management capabilities. Experience working in Agile environments and leading teams responsible for release or change management is also essential.
Location:
This position is with INDOT’s Central Office in Indianapolis.
The salary for this position traditionally starts at $79,118.00 but may be commensurate with education and work experience. Use our Compensation Calculator to view the total compensation package.
A Day in the Life:The essential functions of this role are as follows:
- Provide technical leadership on complex projects and act as a SME in business or functional areas.
- Project software and hardware requirements for application software.
- Devise or modify procedures to solve highly complex problems considering computer equipment capacity and limitations, operating time, and form of desired results to obtain maximum computer utilization.
- Confer with department management to assist in planning, organizing, and controlling activities for highly specialized technical areas.
- Confer with the user community to conduct research, fact‑finding, and analysis to formulate and define system requirements, scope, and objectives, establish priorities, and monitor the progress of complex information systems for highly specialized technical areas.
- Prepare detailed project feasibility studies, formulate complete system scope, project cost, time estimates, and human resource and IT infrastructure requirements for new and existing computer…
(If this job is in fact in your jurisdiction, then you may be using a Proxy or VPN to access this site, and to progress further, you should change your connectivity to another mobile device or PC).