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CalOptima · 2 days ago

Enterprise Release & Environment Architect (ITS Architect IV)

Orange, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$133K/yr - $213K/yr

10+ years exp

CalOptima 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 release management lifecycle and oversee IT environments, ensuring compliance with healthcare regulations while promoting operational excellence.

GovernmentHealth CareNon Profit

Comp. & Benefits

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

Release ManagementEnvironment ManagementAgile MethodologiesCI/CD PipelinesHealthcare ComplianceAnalytical SkillsProject ManagementCommunication SkillsCollaboration Skills

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