Release Management Coordinator

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.