Description: Hybrid 3 on in St. Petersburg, FL
Our client seeks an Application Analyst to coordinate Enterprise Asset Management release readiness, deployment planning, implementation activities, communications, validation tracking, and post-release follow-up. The role supports major, sprint, emergency, maintenance, and off-cycle deployments across application, mobility, integration, analytics, GIS, design tools, environment management, application maintenance, business support, and Change Management teams.
We can facilitate w2 and corp-to-corp consultants. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.Rate: $45.00 to $50.00/hr. w2
Responsibilities: - Develop and maintain release plans, timelines, milestone schedules, readiness checkpoints, contact lists, communication schedules, go/no-go materials, status trackers, risk registers, and action-item logs.
- Coordinate planning discussions, status meetings, pre-job briefings, readiness reviews, deployment activities, and post-release sessions across application, technical, environment, testing, business support, and vendor teams.
- Support implementation windows, including evening and weekend activities when required. Monitor progress, maintain status channels, communicate schedule changes, and escalate issues affecting availability, testing, or service restoration.
- Prepare clear communications for technical teams, business partners, IT management, leadership, users, and Change Management, including readiness updates, notices, status reports, checkout updates, issue notifications, decision requests, summaries, and all-clear messages.
- Track technical and functional checkout readiness, collect validation results, identify gaps, and support accurate inputs for go/no-go decisions.
- Partner with support, delivery, infrastructure, database, environment, vendor, testing, business, and Change Management teams to align on sequencing, dependencies, and release milestones.
- Assist with Change Requests, QA documentation, implementation plans, validation evidence, and records required for execution and compliance. Promote adherence to Change Management, testing, source control, documentation, and Human Performance requirements.
- Respond to production issues and coordinate during incidents, disruption events, failed implementations, and deployment exceptions within defined SLAs.
- Document risks, blockers, lessons learned, gaps, and improvement opportunities. Support retrospectives and help mature repeatable release management practices.
Experience Requirements: - 1 to 3 years as an IT Application Analyst, Release Analyst, Release Coordinator, Project Coordinator, Change Management Analyst, or equivalent.
- Experience coordinating application releases, deployments, implementation activities, or production changes.
- Experience developing and maintaining release plans, implementation schedules, readiness trackers, status reports, risk logs, and action-item trackers.
- Troubleshooting, problem-solving, organizational, and analytical skills.
- Experience coordinating work across application, infrastructure, database, environment, testing, vendor, and business teams.
- Working knowledge of Change Management, incident management, application support, testing, and production implementation practices.
- Ability to track multiple workstreams, dependencies, risks, decisions, and milestones simultaneously.
- Ability to communicate technical information clearly to technical teams, business partners, users, IT management, and leadership.
- Ability to work effectively with limited direction and exercise sound judgment regarding communication, escalation, and release readiness.
- Ability to support implementation activities outside normal business hours, including evening and weekend windows when required.
- Preferred: Experience with EAM or complex integrated enterprise portfolios, coordinating various release types, facilitating readiness reviews and retrospectives, checkout and validation, SDLC (Agile/Waterfall), ServiceNow or similar ITSM tools, vendor and distributed teams, and enterprise standards and audit-ready documentation.
Education Requirements: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or related field. In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 4 years of related business or IT experience.
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