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(SFI) -a two-time USA Today Top Workplaces awardee and Washington Top Workplaces honoree-is seeking a Release Engineer to join our growing team. The ideal candidate will lead release management planning, coordination, and execution across multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs) supporting a complex PeopleSoft platform in a federal environment. This role focuses on integrated release planning, dependency management, environment readiness, deployment governance, cutover coordination, risk management, and production stabilization for PeopleSoft HCM and related enterprise capabilities. The ideal candidate will combine strong release management discipline with PeopleSoft platform understanding, structured communication, and the ability to drive alignment across technical teams, business stakeholders, and operations partners.\nWork Location: Hybrid (on-site in Arlington, VA as scheduled, remaining days remote)\nKey Responsibilities\nLead end-to-end release management activities across multiple ARTs supporting PeopleSoft HCM and related enterprise systems, including release planning, coordination, scheduling, execution, and post-release follow-through.\nDevelop and maintain an integrated release calendar, release milestones, deployment windows, and dependency trackers across application, infrastructure, database, security, testing, and support teams.\nCoordinate release scope, readiness, and sequencing for enhancements, fixes, tax updates, PeopleTools changes, interfaces, batch processes, security changes, and production support items moving across environments.\nFacilitate release governance activities including release planning meetings, readiness reviews, change control coordination, go/no-go assessments, cutover planning, rollback planning, and stakeholder communications.\nWork closely with product owners, scrum masters, release train engineers, developers, testers, infrastructure teams, and client stakeholders to identify dependencies, remove blockers, and ensure release commitments are realistic and traceable.\nTrack release risks, issues, decisions, and action items; escalate appropriately and drive resolution to protect production stability, schedule adherence, and business continuity.\nEnsure environment readiness and deployment discipline across development, test, staging, and production, including coordination of code migrations, configuration changes, data moves, approvals, and validation activities.\nDevelop and maintain release runbooks, checklists, status reporting, release notes, lessons learned, and operational handoff materials to improve repeatability, auditability, and continuous improvement.\nRequirements\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.\n5+ years of experience in release management, deployment management, or environment coordination for enterprise applications; experience supporting PeopleSoft HCM or similar ERP platforms preferred.\nHands-on experience coordinating complex releases across multiple teams or ARTs, including release planning, dependency management, cutover execution, change control, production readiness, and post-release stabilization.\nStrong understanding of software development lifecycle, testing cycles, migration practices, configuration management, and release governance; 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