Release Manager

We are seeking a Release Manager to join our team. Working at NT Concepts means that you are part of an innovative, agile company dedicated to solving the most critical challenges in National Security. We’re looking for the best and the brightest to join us in supporting this mission. If meaningful work, initiative, creativity, and continuous self-improvement are important to your career, join our growing team and discover what's next for you.

Mission Focus: NT Concepts is seeking a Release Manager to support the DoD enterprise Military Housing system. This complex system of 34 web-based modules is used by over 10,000 active users to meet the housing needs of over 2.5 million service members, DoD civilians, and their families.

Clearance: Active DOD Secret clearance required

Location/Flexibility: Must be local to the DC Metro area. This position offers remote flexibility with 2 day a week (minimum) of onsite work in Northern VA.

Responsibilities:

• Provide overall management of a module release. Planning, coordinating, and controlling the movement of a module release through planning and design, development, testing, and deployment to production.
• Work as a subject matter expert in three software modules.
• Define release schedule and roadmap.
• Answer questions and provide daily guidance to developers on development tickets (requirements).
• Provide priorities and track progress on development tasks
• Creating development tickets for initial release setup and as needed or required during the release timeline.
• Meet with stakeholders on a regular basis to define requirements and flesh out requirements.
• Hold daily standups with developers, scrum master, and stakeholders, to identify and eliminate roadblocks to progress and keep the release timeline on track.
• Test developer tickets as they are completed and identify any bugs or fixes needed. Send tickets back with guidance to developers on fixes needed.
• Manage cross-team communication between developers, QA, customers, and infrastructure teams.
• Ensure dependencies between teams or systems are handled.
• Develop and maintain release documentation.
• Oversee deployments to QA Test, Staging, and Production environments (Production deployments are done on weekends – this is an overtime requirement).
• Review production change requests and production bug reports and add to the development backlog on an ongoing basis.

Qualifications:

• BA/BS Degree with at least 10 years of relevant experience
• Current and valid Scrum Master Certification (CSM) or ability to obtain.
• Active CompTIA Security+ or equivalent DoD 8140-compliant certification or the ability to obtain it.
• Dedicated to gaining the necessary expertise to effectively manage and master the system modules they are assigned
• Previous experience as a Software Release Manager in an Agile environment.
• Ability to document requirements into user stories, design and scope documents, and testing plans.
• Ability to reproduce reported software defects and document requirements to correct.
• Ability to research change requests and determine if a request is duplicative or new.
• Experience creating mockups of websites.
• Experience working with presentation and project management tools and presenting to customers/stakeholders.
• Experience writing test plans and performing various type of software testing including unit, Integration, System, User Acceptance, Smoke and End-to-end Testing..
• Experience with Atlassian Work Management tools (Jira/Confluence).
• Experience creating development tickets in Jira. Jira admin skills are a plus.
• Excellent communication and writing skills.
• Computer programming skills a plus

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift up to 10-15 pounds at times.