Max Rate: $55/hr. C2C (All Inclusive + Including VMS Charges 6%)
Idol profile will be – (Release Management / Deployment Coordination experience + Scrum Master)
Must-Have Skills:
- Deployment / Release Coordination – experience managing end-to-end application deployments and releases.
- Change & Implementation Management – strong understanding of change management and implementation processes.
- Agile / Scrum Experience – experience coordinating releases across Scrum teams, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, QA, and technical teams.
- Deployment Readiness – managing deployment schedules, checklists, dependencies, risks, issues, approvals, and go/no-go meetings.
- Stakeholder Management – strong communication and coordination with business teams, technical teams, vendors, and contractors.
- QA & Production Environments – familiarity with QA testing, smoke testing, production support, post-deployment validation, and operational handoffs.
- DevOps / Release Environment Knowledge – understanding of application release and deployment environments.
- Risk & Issue Management – ability to identify, escalate, and resolve deployment blockers, environment issues, and schedule conflicts.
- Documentation & Reporting – maintaining deployment records, implementation plans, readiness trackers, and executive-level status updates.
- Flexible Schedule – must be comfortable supporting 9 PM–12 AM deployments once or twice per week and occasional weekend releases.
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Job Title: Deployment Coordinator
Location: Allentown, NY (REMOTE)
Duration: 6 months
Responsibilities
• Leads weekly planned and emergency deployments for all PPL Customer Service applications
• Orchestrates and coordinates pre-deployment activities, including securing required Cloud support, Database support, and other resources as needed
• Maintains deployment schedules, checklists, implementation plans, readiness tracking materials, and a deployment registry that includes successful, failed, and postponed deployments
• Conducts weekly business touchpoint meetings to review test plans, confirm post-deployment validation coverage, and align on readiness expectations
• Facilitates deployment readiness meetings, go/no-go discussions, deployment communications, and post-deployment follow-ups on a defined cadence
• Collaborates with Scrum Masters across the value stream to support smooth and successful releases for their teams
• Maintains communication between vendors, contractors, and PPL IT to minimize QA environment overlaps and mitigate dependency risks that could delay releases for other applications
• Identifies and escalates deployment blockers, schedule conflicts, environment readiness concerns, risks, issues, approvals, and open action items through completion
Key Skills
• Strong understanding of deployment, release, change, and implementation coordination practices
• Ability to organize complex deployment activities across multiple teams, systems, environments, vendors, and contractors
• Skilled at managing schedules, checklists, dependencies, risks, issues, approvals, action items, deployment records, and recurring communication cadences
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including stakeholder updates, organizational deployment communications, and executive-ready status summaries
• Strong analytical, organizational, troubleshooting, and problem-solving abilities
• Familiar with production support, DevOps, change management, QA environments, application release environments, and post-deployment validation practices
Agile/Digital Experience
• Experience supporting Agile delivery teams and coordinating release activities across sprint, program increment, project, or value stream milestones
• Understands relationships with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, technical leads, testing teams, operations, business stakeholders, vendors, and contractors
• Experience managing release readiness, deployment tasks, implementation dependencies, test plan alignment, and validation activities within a backlog or release plan
Individual Skills
• Strong communication skills with the ability to align cross-functional teams and employees at all levels of the organization on deployment timing, readiness, risks, responsibilities, and required decisions
• Collaborative coordinator who keeps teams organized, informed, accountable, and focused on successful implementation outcomes
• Able to build effective working relationships across teams with different operating models, priorities, and team dynamics
Mindset & Behaviors
• Proactive, organized, and detail-oriented individual who helps teams stay aligned and prepared
• Comfortable working in an environment with a level of ambiguity and able to adapt as priorities, dependencies, or deployment conditions change
• Flexible with schedule and prepared to support deployments from 9 p.m. to 12 a.m. once or twice per week, with occasional weekend support for larger releases
• Open to learning different aspects of the organization and how they work together to support a multi-year PPL systems expansion
• Able to anticipate deployment risks and drive follow-through without needing direct authority
• Embraces transparency, accountability, clear communication, a good attitude, and a team-first approach
• Calm under pressure and focused on helping teams execute clean, well-coordinated deployments
Thank You!
Vineet Kumar Sharma
Senior Recruitment Consultant
