Agile Release Manager

Job Title

Agile Release Manager

Job Description

Agile Release Manager

As our Agile Release Manager for Ambulatory Monitoring & Diagnostics (AM&D) ECG Solutions, you will develop and oversee the entire software development and release lifecycle from planning to production deployment, ensuring timely, high-quality, and compliant releases of software and device firmware.  

Your role:

• Lead enterprise-wide software and device firmware releases, ensuring timely, efficient deployments to pre-production and production environments while aligning with Agile program increments (PIs) and sprint schedules.
• Own deployment and release planning and governance, including maintaining an enterprise release calendar and coordinating cross-functional teams to ensure clear communication and successful delivery of value to customers and patients.
• Monitor and improve release performance, developing KPIs and metrics to measure deployment success, code quality, performance trends, and opportunities for process improvement.
• Drive stakeholder communication and operational excellence, providing regular status updates, managing risks, dependencies, and impediments, and resolving conflicts quickly to keep releases on track.
• Identify and address deployment bottlenecks, analyzing trends and recommending solution-level improvements while continuously enhancing release standards, processes, and lifecycle management.
• Ensure compliance, quality, and patient safety, maintaining adherence to regulatory and industry standards such as FDA, ISO, NIST, HIPAA, and other requirements for regulated healthcare environments.

You're the right fit if:

• You’ve acquired 2+ years of experience as a release manager/release engineer coordinating multiple product deployment/releases across an enterprise wide, multi-geographic, dependency-rich product stack. Extensive experience applying Lean Agile principles and experience with Agile / Scrum and hybrid development models. Experience with CI/CD & Azure DevOps is preferred and with SAFe is nice to have.
• Your skills include working in SaaS, Cloud and SaMD; as well as:
  • Clear focus on value delivery within the context of the overall solution.
  • Strong systems thinking capabilities with the ability to understand how ART level changes impact the entire solution.
  • Skilled in complex problem solving and resolving multifaceted technical or organizational bottlenecks.
  • Strong active listening skills with the ability to synthesize complex viewpoints and build common understanding.
  • Excellent facilitation, conflict resolution, and negotiation skills.
  • Ability to manage and coordinate dependencies across multiple teams.
  • Familiarity with key flow metrics, including lead time, cycle time, WIP, throughput, and predictability.
• You have a Bachelor's degree, required, Master's Degree, preferred in Computer Science Engineering, Information Technology, Business Administration or equivalent related field.
• You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position.
• You possess excellent oral & written communication skills, are fluent in English with strong people orientation, a collaborative mindset and a drive for results.

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

This is an office role.

About Philips

We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help improve the lives of others.

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Philips Transparency Details

The pay range for this position in Malvern, PA is $107,000 to $171,000.

The actual base pay offered may vary within the posted ranges depending on multiple factors including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity.   

In addition, other compensation, such as an annual incentive bonus, sales commission or long-term incentives may be offered.  Employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive Philips Total Rewards benefits program, which includes a generous PTO, 401k (up to 7% match), HSA (with company contribution), stock purchase plan, education reimbursement and much more.  Details about our benefits can be found here. 

At Philips, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each case. 

Additional Information

US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa, now or in the future.

Company relocation benefits will not be provided for this position.  For this position, you must reside in or within commuting distance to Malvern, PA.

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This requisition is expected to stay active for 45 days but may close earlier if a successful candidate is selected or business necessity dictates.  Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible to ensure consideration.

Philips is an Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets and maintains a drug-free workplace.