Release Management Executive Advisor

Location: This role requires associates to be in-office 3 days per week, fostering collaboration and connectivity, while providing flexibility to support productivity and work-life balance. This approach combines structured office engagement with the autonomy of virtual work, promoting a dynamic and adaptable workplace. Alternate locations may be considered.

Please note that per our policy on hybrid/virtual work, candidates not within a reasonable commuting distance from the posting location(s) will not be considered for employment, unless an accommodation is granted as required by law.

The Release Management Executive Advisor  is responsible

for planning, coordinating, and executing FEP application releases across multiple teams and environments, ensuring releases are predictable, well-governed, and aligned with business priorities. The role serves as the central coordination point between application teams, infrastructure, operations, testing, and business stakeholders. The Release Manager does not act as a developer or QA lead, but must deeply understand SDLC, environments, dependencies, and operational risk.

How will you make an impact: 

• 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

Minimum Requirements:

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

Preferred Skills, Capabilities and Experiences:

• 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.

For candidates working in person or virtually in the below location(s), the salary* range for this specific position is $145152.00-$217728.00

Locations:  Maryland

In addition to your salary, Elevance Health offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). The salary offered for this specific position is based on a number of legitimate, non-discriminatory factors set by the Company.  The Company is fully committed to ensuring equal pay opportunities for equal work regardless of gender, race, or any other category protected by federal, state, and local pay equity laws.

* The salary range is the range Elevance Health in good faith believes is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future and actual compensation may vary from posting based on geographic location, work experience, education and/or skill level. Even within the range, the actual compensation will vary depending on the above factors as well as market/business considerations. No amount is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable under the terms and conditions of the applicable policies and plans. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

*If this job is assigned to any Government Business Division entity, the applicant and incumbent fall under a sensitive position' work designation and may be subject to additional requirements beyond those associates outside Government Business Divisions. Requirements include but are not limited to more stringent and frequent background checks and/or government clearances, segregation of duties, principles, role specific training, monitoring of daily job functions, and sensitive data handling instructions. Associates in these jobs must follow the specific policies, procedures, guidelines, etc. as stated by the Government Business Division in which they are employed.