Senior IT Change Coordinator - Application Delivery

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The Opportunity

We are seeking a dedicated Senior IT Change Coordinator – Application Delivery. The Senior IT Change Coordinator for Application Delivery provides technical change governance for complex software releases across the enterprise. Working with application engineering, product, quality assurance, DevOps, infrastructure, and business teams, this role assesses deployment risk, coordinates dependencies, validates release readiness, and supports reliable production outcomes. The role combines advanced Change and Release Management expertise with practical knowledge of software delivery, testing, and application deployment practices.

Collaborates and manages IT change processes across all functions within IT and with business stakeholders. Measures and monitors progress to ensure IT changes are implemented on time with minimal impact or disruption to IT production systems. Ensures that all IT changes are recorded, assessed, approved, prioritized, and deployed in a manner that meets business requirements and protects the stability and reliability of production IT systems. Contributes to improvements to the Change and Release processes and technology improvement opportunities and may lead the execution of these initiatives as needed.

We offer a flexible work environment that requires an individual to be in the office 5 days per week. This position will be based in San Antonio; TX. Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

What you'll do:

• Facilitates complex or large IT change requests meeting with change requestor to review, audit, and ensure change requests meet regulatory standards.
• Drives direction of appropriate rigor level based on the technical complexity and potential impact of change.
• Identifies quality issues within the department contributing to IT service delivery issues and ensure their resolution/success.
• Partners with internal and external SMEs to improve, synchronize, automate, and integrate process controls to include integration with other ITIL disciplines.
• Understands application of process controls and their interaction, and anticipates , mitigates against them and/or ensures resolution.
• Assists in internal and external reviews on the effectiveness of the configuration management operations at USAA.
• Serves as escalation point for junior team members on moderately complex issues.
• Recognizes and escalates issues for proactive communication to stakeholders and provide guidance toward resolution.
• Provides consultation around IT change and release management tools, process and artifacts.
• Influences how the IT Change and Release organization and roles interrelate with the respective customers and other ITIL disciplines.
• May lead medium to large scale implementations.
• Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

What You Have:

• Bachelor's degree; OR 4 years of relevant education and/or experience.
• 6 years of IT change management, release management, application delivery, software engineering coordination, or technical project management experience. Advanced knowledge of ITIL and Change Enablement practices. Demonstrated experience with waterfall and Agile delivery, SDLC, application testing, CI/CD, deployment governance, and cross-functional release coordination.
• Advanced knowledge of application delivery, SDLC, release coordination, and production deployment practices.• Ability to evaluate application dependencies, testing sufficiency, implementation plans, and recovery strategies.• Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional delivery teams through complex releases.• Advanced written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.• Strong attention to detail and demonstrated knowledge of relevant risk and regulatory requirements.

What Sets You Apart:

• ITIL 4, SAFe, Scrum, DevOps, or relevant change/release certification.
• Experience with enterprise CI/CD platforms, release orchestration, observability, or deployment automation.
• Experience supporting cloud-native, distributed, mobile, or customer-facing applications.
• Experience with progressive delivery methods such as canary, blue-green, feature flags, or slow-roll deployments.

Compensation range: The salary range for this position is: $103,450- $197,730.

USAA does not provide visa sponsorship for this role. Please do not apply for this role if at any time (now or in the future) you will need immigration support (i.e., H-1B, TN, STEM OPT Training Plans, etc.).

Compensation: USAA has an effective process for assessing market data and establishing ranges to ensure we remain competitive. You are paid within the salary range based on your experience and market data of the position. The actual salary for this role may vary by location.

Employees may be eligible for pay incentives based on overall corporate and individual performance and at the discretion of the USAA Board of Directors.

The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job.

Benefits: At USAA our employees enjoy best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellness. These benefits include comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans, 401(k), pension, life insurance, parental benefits, adoption assistance, paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours, and various wellness programs. Additionally, our career path planning and continuing education assists employees with their professional goals.

For more details on our outstanding benefits, visit our benefits page on USAAjobs.com.

Applications for this position are accepted on an ongoing basis, this posting will remain open until the position is filled. Thus, interested candidates are encouraged to apply the same day they view this posting.

USAA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.