Deployment Coordinator / Scrum Master at PPL

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.   105382-1 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 •       Removes barriers for technical leads before and during deployment and assists business partners with troubleshooting deployment-readiness issues, including access or permissions issues impacting QA test scripts •       Coordinates validation activities and confirms that required smoke testing, business verification, and operational handoffs are complete • Works closely with teams to drive accountability and maintain records of Root Cause Analysis outcomes across 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 Email ID: vineet.kumar@pacerstaffing.com : : : : APPLY NOW      🔔   Get our daily C2C jobs / Hotlist notifications on   WHATSAPP                   TELEGRAM                         LINKEDIN     Related