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# IT Delivery Manager

- **Company:** Motus, LLC
- **Location:** Portland, OR, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Confluence, JIRA, Scrum Methodology, Release Management
- **Published:** September 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/75f46412-f1ca-4981-b4a9-0354dfffbe71

## About the Role

* 5+ years of experience in delivery management, release management, technical project management, or Agile delivery.
 * Demonstrated experience coordinating complex, cross-functional technology implementations.
 * Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum delivery practices and release management.
 * Experience working with Jira, Confluence, or similar delivery-management tools.
 * Strong dependency, risk, milestone, and stakeholder management skills.
 * Ability to work across business, operations, product, and technology organizations without direct authority.
 * Strong facilitation and executive-level communication skills.
 * Healthcare payer, clinical systems, utilization management, payment integrity, or other regulated healthcare experience preferred.

## Description

The Release Manager will own the integrated view of delivery - what is being delivered, when it is releasing, key dependencies, readiness, risks, and stakeholder impacts., * Lead and coordinate delivery across multiple projects, product teams, and workstreams.

 * Develop and maintain an integrated 90-day release and delivery calendar.
 * Track major milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, and delivery commitments.
 * Coordinate activities across Product Owners, Business Analysts, DTS/technology teams, configuration teams, UAT/quality, vendors, and operational partners.
 * Facilitate release readiness and Go/No-Go discussions, ensuring business and technical requirements are ready for implementation.
 * Coordinate UAT timing, defect resolution, approvals, and other release dependencies.
 * Identify delivery risks and impediments early and drive appropriate escalation and resolution.
 * Provide concise status reporting on delivery health, upcoming releases, risks, and decisions requiring leadership attention.
 * Ensure downstream stakeholders understand upcoming changes, timing, impacts, and required actions.
 * Support consistent use of Jira for delivery visibility, milestone tracking, dependencies, and release health.
 * Facilitate cross-team delivery discussions and ensure commitments and follow-up actions are clearly documented.
 * Support post-release reviews and identify recurring delivery issues and opportunities for continuous improvement.


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