Release Management Executive Advisor

• 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
  

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

• 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.
  

Please be advised that Elevance Health only accepts resumes for compensation from agencies that have a signed agreement with Elevance Health. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Elevance Health.

Who We Are

Elevance Health is a health company dedicated to improving lives and communities - and making healthcare simpler. We are a Fortune 25 company with a longstanding history in the healthcare industry, looking for leaders at all levels of the organization who are passionate about making an impact on our members and the communities we serve.

How We Work

At Elevance Health, we are creating a culture that is designed to advance our strategy but will also lead to personal and professional growth for our associates. Our values and behaviors are the root of our culture. They are how we achieve our strategy, power our business outcomes and drive our shared success - for our consumers, our associates, our communities and our business.

We offer a range of market-competitive total rewards that include merit increases, paid holidays, Paid Time Off, and incentive bonus programs (unless covered by a collective bargaining agreement), medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, stock purchase plan, life insurance, wellness programs and financial education resources, to name a few.

Elevance Health operates in a Hybrid Workforce Strategy. Unless specified as primarily virtual by the hiring manager, associates are required to work at an Elevance Health location at least once per week, and potentially several times per week. Specific requirements and expectations for time onsite will be discussed as part of the hiring process.

The health of our associates and communities is a top priority for Elevance Health. We require all new candidates in certain patient/member-facing roles to become vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza. If you are not vaccinated, your offer will be rescinded unless you provide an acceptable explanation. Elevance Health will also follow all relevant federal, state and local laws.

Elevance Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, ethnicity, genetic information, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other status or condition protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact View email address on us.fitly.work for assistance. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws, including, but not limited to, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act