NEOGOV · 13 hours ago
Enterprise Release & Environment Architect (ITS Architect IV)
Orange, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$133K/yr - $213K/yr
10+ years expCalOptima is a mission-driven community-based organization that serves member health with excellence and dignity. They are seeking an Enterprise Release & Environment Architect to manage the end-to-end release management lifecycle and governance of IT environments, ensuring compliance with healthcare regulations while promoting operational excellence.
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Responsibilities
Participates in a mission-driven culture of high-quality performance, with a member focus on customer service, consistency, dignity and accountability
Assists the team in carrying out department responsibilities and collaborates with others to support short- and long-term goals/priorities for the department
Develops and maintains the forward-looking release calendar and master release schedules across the entire enterprise
Plans and coordinates release windows and cycles with product, project, architecture, and business teams, managing interdependencies effectively
Serves as the central source of communication regarding project plans, ongoing changes, and release statuses for all stakeholders, from technical teams to executive leadership
Develops, monitors, and enforces release management processes and policies in accordance with best practices and organizational change management procedures
Acts as the gatekeeper to the production environment, ensuring all changes adhere to compliance standards (e.g., HIPAA, SOX, etc.)
Facilitates release readiness reviews, milestone reviews, and go-live activities
Manages risks, dependencies, and escalations related to releases
Partners with the Development Operations team to optimize CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
Provides subject matter expertise and supports large complex projects and/or multiple smaller projects
Oversees the strategy and operations for non-production environments (DEV, QA, UAT, STG)
Ensures environment availability, stability, and scalability to support development and testing
Defines environment refresh cycles, data masking practices, and configuration standards
Collaborates with the Infrastructure and Cloud teams to ensure cost-effective environment provisioning
Maintains environment inventory, usage dashboards, and access controls
Completes other projects and duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or related field PLUS 10 years of experience in release and/or environment management required; an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the position such as those listed above may also be qualifying
5 years of experience working in Agile organizations managing releases and environments required
Preferred
Prior experience working in the healthcare industry, particularly with healthcare plans, to understand the unique regulatory and compliance requirements
Benefits
CalPERS pension program and additional retirement packages.
A generous PTO program
A quality work life balance
Various wellness programs
Tuition Reimbursement
Professional development opportunities
Career development opportunities
Flexible scheduling
Company
NEOGOV
NEOGOV is the leading provider of workforce management software uniquely designed for the public sector, education, and public safety.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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$700MKey Investors
Warburg Pincus
2025-07-28Secondary Market· $700M
2025-07-28Acquired
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CEO
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