New Mexico Staffing
Interface Release Manager
The primary role of the Interface Release Manager is to oversee the release of VA Electronic Health Record Modernization program external system interfaces during VA Medical Center (VAMC) conversions from their existing Health Record system. This role focuses on coordinating the interface development teams, requirements, testing, and release schedules of interfaces to ensure readiness and availability for VAMC go-live events. The release manager will participate on the Integrated Change Advisory Board (ICAB) and in sprint planning or scrums in order to be aware of all changes occurring across the site's release. This role may also communicate any challenges or impacts to external solutions in relation to managing the internal dependencies. In general, this role focuses more on the details of the broad release and should participate in or lead any site release related meetings. The release manager ensures coordination of day-to-day activities of the interface teams supporting each assigned site's go-live event. The release manager role combines requirements management, project management (e.g., project planning, project tracking and oversight, risk management), design, development, configuration management including change control, test, and release. The release manager focuses on coordinating pieces from various interface deliverables that must come together to work as an integrated solution. The release manager helps coordinate timelines, ensuring they are planned and managed so that future dependencies can come together in a timely manner. The release manager will work with the project managers, cutover coordinator, and others to ensure that all dependent pieces are ready to support the release in build, test, and production. They are responsible for ensuring that resources, timelines, and the overall quality of interface development and deployment are all considered and accounted for. Responsibilities may include (but are not limited to): managing risks and resolving challenges that impact release scope, quality, and schedules; managing relationships working on interrelated processes; communicating crucial release plans and changes; measuring and monitoring progress to achieve timely releases within defined budgetary limits and defined quality standards; coordinating high level processes between matrixed teams including cyber, FSI, FHIR, CCL, DICOM, testing and the development team; communicating necessary release details to business owners as needed; managing, planning, and negotiating release activities; coordinating release content and efforts based on updates and third-party apps; championing and facilitating contributions to integrated master schedules (IMS), deployment, implementation and cutover plans; conducting release readiness and milestone reviews; maintaining release schedules for assigned interfaces and ensuring it aligns with other vendors and key stakeholders; leading and coordinating checklist and deployment plan execution; ensuring that releases operate as per expectations; ensuring that requirements are clear across dependent project streams within a release; managing the deployment of deliverables to the test environment particularly guaranteeing that external dependent items are available for testing; tracking changes to requirements and communicate impacts; managing the deployment of deliverables into production; plan the release of project deliverables and release life cycle; communicate the project-related tasks such as plans, timelines, requirements, etc. between different teams; identify the risks that can delay the release and manage them, such that the scope scheduled, and quality of the release is not affected; plan and give weekly updates on the release activities to VA leadership including the OEHRM deployment coordination meeting; lead the go-live activities to deploy the interfaces successfully.
The primary role of the Interface Release Manager is to oversee the release of VA Electronic Health Record Modernization program external system interfaces during VA Medical Center (VAMC) conversions from their existing Health Record system. This role focuses on coordinating the interface development teams, requirements, testing, and release schedules of interfaces to ensure readiness and availability for VAMC go-live events. The release manager will participate on the Integrated Change Advisory Board (ICAB) and in sprint planning or scrums in order to be aware of all changes occurring across the site's release. This role may also communicate any challenges or impacts to external solutions in relation to managing the internal dependencies. In general, this role focuses more on the details of the broad release and should participate in or lead any site release related meetings. The release manager ensures coordination of day-to-day activities of the interface teams supporting each assigned site's go-live event. The release manager role combines requirements management, project management (e.g., project planning, project tracking and oversight, risk management), design, development, configuration management including change control, test, and release. The release manager focuses on coordinating pieces from various interface deliverables that must come together to work as an integrated solution. The release manager helps coordinate timelines, ensuring they are planned and managed so that future dependencies can come together in a timely manner. The release manager will work with the project managers, cutover coordinator, and others to ensure that all dependent pieces are ready to support the release in build, test, and production. They are responsible for ensuring that resources, timelines, and the overall quality of interface development and deployment are all considered and accounted for. Responsibilities may include (but are not limited to): managing risks and resolving challenges that impact release scope, quality, and schedules; managing relationships working on interrelated processes; communicating crucial release plans and changes; measuring and monitoring progress to achieve timely releases within defined budgetary limits and defined quality standards; coordinating high level processes between matrixed teams including cyber, FSI, FHIR, CCL, DICOM, testing and the development team; communicating necessary release details to business owners as needed; managing, planning, and negotiating release activities; coordinating release content and efforts based on updates and third-party apps; championing and facilitating contributions to integrated master schedules (IMS), deployment, implementation and cutover plans; conducting release readiness and milestone reviews; maintaining release schedules for assigned interfaces and ensuring it aligns with other vendors and key stakeholders; leading and coordinating checklist and deployment plan execution; ensuring that releases operate as per expectations; ensuring that requirements are clear across dependent project streams within a release; managing the deployment of deliverables to the test environment particularly guaranteeing that external dependent items are available for testing; tracking changes to requirements and communicate impacts; managing the deployment of deliverables into production; plan the release of project deliverables and release life cycle; communicate the project-related tasks such as plans, timelines, requirements, etc. between different teams; identify the risks that can delay the release and manage them, such that the scope scheduled, and quality of the release is not affected; plan and give weekly updates on the release activities to VA leadership including the OEHRM deployment coordination meeting; lead the go-live activities to deploy the interfaces successfully.