Cardinal Health
Information Technology
ReleaseEngineer
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“Release Engineer at Cardinal Health. Skills: Release Engineering, Release Management, DevOps, CI/CD, Agile. Lead iteration and release management ceremonies, including release planning, readiness reviews, and post-release communications.. Develop, maintain, and govern an integrated release calendar, ensuring alignment across teams, platforms, environments, and business priorities.”
What You'll Achieve.
ensures that changes are planned, tested, communicated, and deployed in a predictable and high quality manner; enables business agility by aligning development, testing, operations, and platform teams to deliver value safely and efficiently; improve release predictability and quality; improve decision quality
Industry & Context.
risk identification; delivery insights; decision quality improvement
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years of experience in Release Engineering or Release Management within Agile and DevOps delivery environments, experience with Jira and Confluence for planning, dependency management, tracking, and reporting, Demonstrated expertise in DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, GitHub, and modern branching and release strategies, Experience working within cloud-based and enterprise-scale engineering ecosystems, Proven ability to use AI-assisted techniques to support release analysis, artifact creation, risk identification, and delivery insights, communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical information into clear, actionable messages, Ability to operate effectively in cross-functional, geographically distributed teams
Nice to Have
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field preferred
What You'll Do.
Lead iteration and release management ceremonies
including release planning
and post-release communications.
and govern an integrated release calendar
ensuring alignment across teams
and business priorities.
Coordinate with Solution Owners
and Operations to align scope
and deployment timelines.
Partner closely with the Cutover Lead to align release plans with cutover strategies
and deployment freezes.
Provide release readiness inputs (code
deployment validation) to support cutover governance
and execution runbooks.
Collaborate with Release Managers from other teams and platforms to synchronize cross-application releases
manage shared dependencies
and ensure end-to-end business readiness.
Apply and guide branching
and release strategies aligned with GitHub workflows and CI/CD pipelines.
and actively manage release risks
and dependencies through RAID logs and mitigation planning.
Communicate release status
and outcomes effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Leverage AI-assisted tools to aggregate delivery data (e. g.
generate release artifacts
identify risk signals
and improve decision quality.
Continuously assess and improve release processes through automation
and best-practice adoption.
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Operates with a high degree of autonomy while aligning to overall project and organizational objectives.; Influences outcomes through expertise, data, and collaboration, rather than formal people management authority.; Coordinates with Solution Owners, Scrum Masters, Engineering, Testing, SRE, and Operations to align scope, sequencing, dependencies, and deployment timelines.; Collaborates with Release Managers from other teams and platforms to synchronize cross-application releases, manage shared dependencies, and ensure end-to-end business readiness.; Ability to operate effectively in cross-functional, geographically distributed teams.
Communication Scope
communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical information into clear, actionable messages; Communicate release status, impacts, and outcomes effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Process & Methodology
release planning, dependency management, risk management, integrated release calendar, sequencing, deployment timelines, cutover strategies, rollback approaches, execution runbooks, RAID logs, mitigation planning
Full Job Description
_**What Application Development & Maintenance contributes to Cardinal Health**_ Information Technology oversees the effective development, delivery, and operation of computing and information services. This function anticipates, plans, and delivers Information Technology solutions and strategies that enable operations and drive business value. Release Management provides disciplined governance, coordination, and execution of software delivery across complex, cross functional technology ecosystems. This function ensures that changes are planned, tested, communicated, and deployed in a predictable and high quality manner. Release Management enables business agility by aligning development, testing, operations, and platform teams to deliver value safely and efficiently. Cardinal Health is seeking a Release Engineer to lead iteration and release management activities supporting mission critical warehouse transformation initiatives on Program Motion. This role is responsible for end to end release planning, readiness, execution, and governance across multiple teams, platforms, and environments. The Release Manager operates at both the delivery execution and program level, ensuring release plans are integrated, dependencies are managed, risks are transparent, and stakeholders have the information needed to make timely, data driven decisions. This role works closely with Solution Owners, Agile Transformation Facilitators (Scrum Masters), Engineering, Testing, Ops Tech, Cutover Lead, and peer Release Managers to align releases with deployment and cutover strategies. Over time, this role may evolve to lead release management across the broader Pharma Supply Chain IT landscape, expanding scope beyond individual programs to drive consistency and scalability. The successful candidate embraces the responsible use of enterprise AI capabilities to enhance release analytics, readiness assessment, artifact generation, and overall delivery predictability while applying strong DevOps,
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