About this role
Job Title: Release Management Coordinator, Department of
Veterans Affairs
Location: Remote. The candidate must live in the
Washington, DC metropolitan area (the SOW also permits Austin, TX) to attend
in-person meetings as needed. Local travel to those meetings is not
reimbursed.
Clearance Required: Public Trust (VA background
investigation, Tier 2 or Tier 4 per position risk designation). U.S.
citizenship required per the SOW.
Salary Range: $130,000-$135,000
Employment Type: Full-time
Travel: Less than 5% (local meetings only; no TDY
expected or funded)
FM QSMO Analyst IV (BA/BS + 7 years).
Position Overview:
Our client seeks a mid-level Release
Management Coordinator to plan, coordinate, and track software releases for
the VA iFAMS (Momentum) Operations & Maintenance program across
development, test, staging, and production environments.
The coordinator works with Agile delivery teams, prime program leadership, and VA stakeholders so that approved changes reach
production on schedule, under configuration control, with minimal operational
disruption.
Key qualifications and responsibilities include:
- Manage
release schedules, deployment activities, and change management
processes for approved changes to the iFAMS operational baseline.
- Coordinate
with Agile teams, testers, operations, and VA stakeholders to plan and
execute deployments to production and Government-designated environments.
- Track release
readiness, risks, issues, and dependencies; run go/no-go readiness
reviews and communicate status clearly.
- Ensure
compliance with VA configuration management standards; keep
baseline configuration records and release artifacts audit-ready
(RMF/continuous authorization and IV&V support).
- Coordinate
post-deployment validation and regression testing with the test team, and
support release-related troubleshooting and rollback decisions.
- Identify
and drive process improvements to the release and change management
lifecycle.
- Experience
with release, CI/CD, or ITSM tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps, GitHub,
ServiceNow, or VA's Agility) and a working knowledge of ITIL change and
release practices.
- Preferred:
experience on a federal ERP or financial system (Momentum, Oracle, SAP),
and ITIL 4 Foundation or SAFe certification.