CVS Health is the nation's premier health innovation company helping people on their path to better health. We are building a new health care model that is easier to use, less expensive, and puts the consumer at the center of their care. The productization of data and analytics is one of the foundational pillars transforming and modernizing CVS Health.

You will be part of the "Analytics & Behavior Change" team that designs, develops, and delivers software applications that empower business users with more efficient workflows and advanced analytics, so they can do their jobs faster, better, and more accurately. As a Product Management group, we are product owners, Solution Strategists, QA experts, and release mangers who set the vision of the products we build and coordinate the entirety of the product lifecycle. We work with our business partners to identify and prioritize value. We orchestrate the work across IT, design, data engineering, data science, BI, and application development.

As a Lead DevOps & Release Management at CVS Health you will be leading the releases of complex features within the Underwriting Platform, a software application that serves financial users from our Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) business unit. You will work on various release activities for multiple applications, and your primary responsibility will be ensuring that Underwriting Transformation Products are delivered of high quality and on time.

Your role is vital to ensure that critical requirements and features are released into production to support companies underwriting and other financial processes. This has a great impact on end users of these applications and the quality of service we provide to our internal customers.

Responsibilities:
• Plan and support Release Management over multiple products/applications and perform day-to-day activities to deliver timely and quality releases.
• Influence the successful delivery and implementation of cross-functional activities to achieve the desired results for a defined program and/or strategic initiative.
• Measure, track, and communicate release milestones/notes, deployment instructions, version control records and various associated risks in collaboration with Dev/QA Engineers, Product Managers and Scrum masters.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to create release plans, considering dependencies, timelines, and resource requirements.
• Collaborate with all project stakeholders to proactively identify and mitigate project risks with frequent reevaluation and reprioritization of the risk log.
• Develop merging, branching and staging strategies in collaboration with DevOps engineers, socialize and get it implemented across various applications/software.
• Develop and maintain release management processes, policies, and procedures to ensure smooth and efficient releases.
• Generate regular reports on release status, metrics, and key performance indicators (KPIs) to provide insights to stakeholders.
• Facilitate post-release reviews to gather feedback and implement lessons learned for future releases.
• Come up with creative ideas to use application-release automation (ARA) tools, which help cultivate DevOps and implement continuous delivery (CD) quickly.
• Be able to deliver in a high paced and ambiguous environment with a customer-focused mindset. • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or other related field. CVS Health is the nation's premier health innovation company helping people on their path to better health. We are building a new health care model that is easier to use, less expensive, and puts the consumer at the center of their care. The productization of data and analytics is one of the foundational pillars transforming and modernizing CVS Health.

You will be part of the "Analytics & Behavior Change" team that designs, develops, and delivers software applications that empower business users with more efficient workflows and advanced analytics, so they can do their jobs faster, better, and more accurately. As a Product Management group, we are product owners, Solution Strategists, QA experts, and release mangers who set the vision of the products we build and coordinate the entirety of the product lifecycle. We work with our business partners to identify and prioritize value. We orchestrate the work across IT, design, data engineering, data science, BI, and application development.

As a Lead DevOps & Release Management at CVS Health you will be leading the releases of complex features within the Underwriting Platform, a software application that serves financial users from our Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) business unit. You will work on various release activities for multiple applications, and your primary responsibility will be ensuring that Underwriting Transformation Products are delivered of high quality and on time.

Your role is vital to ensure that critical requirements and features are released into production to support companies underwriting and other financial processes. This has a great impact on end users of these applications and the quality of service we provide to our internal customers.

Responsibilities:
• Plan and support Release Management over multiple products/applications and perform day-to-day activities to deliver timely and quality releases.
• Influence the successful delivery and implementation of cross-functional activities to achieve the desired results for a defined program and/or strategic initiative.
• Measure, track, and communicate release milestones/notes, deployment instructions, version control records and various associated risks in collaboration with Dev/QA Engineers, Product Managers and Scrum masters.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to create release plans, considering dependencies, timelines, and resource requirements.
• Collaborate with all project stakeholders to proactively identify and mitigate project risks with frequent reevaluation and reprioritization of the risk log.
• Develop merging, branching and staging strategies in collaboration with DevOps engineers, socialize and get it implemented across various applications/software.
• Develop and maintain release management processes, policies, and procedures to ensure smooth and efficient releases.
• Generate regular reports on release status, metrics, and key performance indicators (KPIs) to provide insights to stakeholders.
• Facilitate post-release reviews to gather feedback and implement lessons learned for future releases.
• Come up with creative ideas to use application-release automation (ARA) tools, which help cultivate DevOps and implement continuous delivery (CD) quickly.
• Be able to deliver in a high paced and ambiguous environment with a customer-focused mindset. • Azure DevOps including managing Azure DevOps projects, configuring pipelines, releases, build agents, and working with GIT repositories.
• Experience with build automation and configuration management tools (e.g. Puppet, Chef, Ansible) and deployment tools (e.g. Octopus)
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and experience working in Agile/Scrum environments. • 10+ years of experience in Release Management of medium to high complexity products.
• 7+ years' experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar role, with a strong focus on automation and build and deployment pipelines.
• 5+ years of experience with Continuous Integration environments including: Jenkins, GIT and CI/CD.
• 3+ years' experience working in a Cloud Environment (Azure preferred but open to AWS and GCP).
• Strong leadership, influencing and stakeholder management skills to lead ecosystem of cross-functional teams to deliver a quality software in timely manner to end users.
• Experience collaborating with developers, infrastructure, and other stakeholders to drive DevOps practices and facilitate smooth software delivery.
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills, including release plans and release communication to executive and technical audiences with the goal of smooth releases, obtaining feedback on communication and alignment on project goals and delivery strategies.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities, with a keen attention to detail. • Azure DevOps including managing Azure DevOps projects, configuring pipelines, releases, build agents, and working with GIT repositories.
• Experience with build automation and configuration management tools (e.g. Puppet, Chef, Ansible) and deployment tools (e.g. Octopus)
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and experience working in Agile/Scrum environments. This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors.