Release Governance Analyst- #26-23659

Duration:12 months

3-5 days onsite; CW should be willing to participate in weekend deployment activities in other states

About the Role

The Release Governance Analyst will support the Grid Technology Solutions (GTS) organization, which manages critical SCADA, ADMS (Advanced Distribution Management System), and grid operations technologies across multiple utility jurisdictions.

This role serves as a key member of the Release Governance and Delivery team, helping coordinate large-scale system deployments, upgrades, and production releases. Success in this position requires strong organizational skills, executive communication capabilities, attention to detail, and the ability to drive accountability across a complex network of IT and business stakeholders. The analyst will act as the central coordinator for release readiness activities, ensuring leadership has clear visibility into progress, risks, dependencies, and production release readiness.

What You'll Do

• Responsible for understanding and ensuring compliance of GTS release management practices

• Coordinate and support release management activities for major technology deployments and sustainment upgrades

• Track and drive completion of release criteria across multiple teams

• Facilitate stakeholder meetings and ensure action items are documented, assigned, and driven to closure

• Facilitate release readiness assessments, go/no-go reviews, and executive decision-making forums

• Develop and maintain release readiness dashboards, action logs, risk registers, deployment trackers, and lessons-learned repositories

• Coordinate the development, review, and approval of Method of Procedure (MOP) documents and deployment plans

• Identify, communicate, and escalate risks, issues, and dependencies impacting release readiness

• Develop executive-ready PowerPoint presentations, status reports, and leadership communications

• Provide coordination support during planned release weekends and occasional after-hours deployment activities.

What We're Looking For

• Graduation from a 4-year university.

• 5-8 years of experience supporting complex technology programs, releases, deployments, or consulting engagements

• Exceptional organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills

• Demonstrates initiative, a strong sense of urgency, and the determination to drive work to completion.

• Demonstrated ability to coordinate activities across large, cross-functional teams

• Strong executive presentation and PowerPoint development capabilities

• Comfortable facilitating meetings and presenting status updates to leaders and stakeholders

• Ability to proactively drive follow-ups, facilitate resolution of open items, and ensure commitments are tracked through completion.

• Experience managing risks, dependencies, action items, and governance processes

• Experience in consulting, release governance, or large-scale technology program coordination strongly preferred.

• Experience in utility operations, grid technology, SCADA, ADMS, OMS, or other critical infrastructure environments is highly desirable

• Experience with consulting, process development and change management are highly desirable

• Willingness to work onsite, travel as needed, and support occasional weekend deployment activities in other states.

Success in this role will be measured by:

• On-time completion of release readiness activities

• Accurate reporting of risks and dependencies

• Effective facilitation of governance meetings

• Stakeholder satisfaction

• Successful execution of production deployments and upgrades

Why This Role

• This position offers the opportunity to support the deployment and sustainment of mission-critical technologies that enable safe and reliable electric grid operations.
• The consultant will work alongside senior technology leaders, utility operations teams, and industry partners to help deliver high-visibility releases that directly impact customer service, outage restoration, and grid modernization initiatives.
• The role provides exposure to executive leadership, large-scale technology programs, and complex operational environments while helping establish the governance rigor needed to support ongoing annual upgrade and release cycles.

About US Tech Solutions:

US Tech Solutions is a global staff augmentation firm providing a wide range of talent on-demand and total workforce solutions. To know more about US Tech Solutions, please visit www.ustechsolutions.com.

US Tech Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

AI Statement: By applying, you acknowledge that AI-assisted tools may be used during hiring.

#LI-AS140