Contract role: Release Manager with Healthcare Exp at Rochester, Minnesota ( Onsite - Hybrid Model ) - Locals Preferred

Release Manager with Healthcare Exp

Rochester, Minnesota ( Onsite – Hybrid Model )

Long Term Contract

Mandatory Skills:

• HIPAA
• DEVOPS
• Release management

Release Governance & Process Maturity

• Design, implement, and enforce a standardized release management framework aligned with ITIL, DevOps, and healthcare regulatory requirements.
• Establish release calendars, change windows, and deployment standards to reduce disruption to clinical operations.
• Lead release readiness reviews, go/no-go decisions, and post-implementation retrospectives.
• Develop and maintain release policies, runbooks, and audit-ready documentation.

Vendor & Telehealth Platform Coordination

• Serve as the primary technical liaison for vendor-supported video visit platforms (e.g., telehealth SaaS providers).
• Coordinate vendor release schedules, patches, and upgrades with internal change control processes.
• Validate vendor changes for compatibility with integrated systems such as EHR, patient identity management, and scheduling workflows.
• Ensure vendor SLAs and release communications meet operational and clinical needs.

Environment & Deployment Management

• Oversee deployment pipelines across development, test, staging, and production environments.
• Ensure environment parity and configuration management for integrated healthcare applications.
• Partner with DevOps teams to automate deployments, rollback procedures, and release verification.

Risk, Compliance & Patient Safety

• Ensure all releases comply with HIPAA, HITECH, and organizational security policies.
• Conduct risk assessments for releases impacting patient data, clinical workflows, or telehealth availability.
• Implement controls to safeguard PHI during deployments and vendor updates.
• Support audit and compliance reporting for regulatory reviews.

Observability & Continuous Improvement

• Define and track release KPIs such as deployment frequency, change failure rate, MTTR, and patient-impact incidents.
• Lead root cause analyses for release-related incidents affecting virtual care.
• Drive process improvements that increase release velocity without compromising reliability or compliance.