Senior Environment & Release Analyst (Epic) at The University of Texas at Austin in Austin, TX

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Job Posting Title: Senior Environment & Release Analyst (Epic) ---- Hiring Department: Dell Medical School ---- Position Open To: All Applicants ---- Weekly Scheduled Hours: 40 ---- FLSA Status: Exempt from FLSA ---- Earliest Start Date: Immediately ---- Position Duration: Expected to Continue ---- Location: AUSTIN, TX ---- Job Details: General Notes The Senior Epic Environment & Release Analyst supports the operational governance, administration, communication, and coordination of the Epic environment and release activities. The role administers Epic change governance processes, maintains release and environment calendars, performs Epic Data Courier administration, coordinates Epic Nova note review activities, and supports release readiness across application and technical teams. This position is designed as a coordination and administration role rather than the management of the Epic environment and release strategy. Management oversight, strategic decisions, technical release accountability, vendor coordination for configuration activities, and final escalation authority remain with the Director, Epic Platform Management, Biomedical Systems & Enterprise Interoperability. The position provides a developmental pathway toward a future Epic Environment & Release Manager role as experience, technical knowledge, and organizational scope increase. Responsibilities Epic Environment & Release Management Coordination Maintain the integrated Epic environment and release calendar, including planned releases, upgrades, updates, maintenance activities, change windows, testing periods, and key readiness milestones. Coordinate shared calendar invitations, stakeholder meetings, release communications, reminders, and administrative notifications. Maintain release checklists, readiness trackers, dependency logs, decision records, meeting artifacts, and supporting documentation. Track completion of assigned release activities across application, platform, infrastructure, integration, security, and vendor teams and escalate overdue or at-risk items to management. Support release readiness reviews by consolidating status, open risks, dependencies, outstanding approvals, and completion evidence. Maintain current stakeholder and distribution lists for Epic release, environment, CAB/ECAB, and upgrade communications. Support administrative closeout of releases and maintenance activities, including documentation of outcomes, unresolved items, and follow-up actions. Assist with tracking environment utilization and scheduling conflicts across Epic non-production and production environments. Epic Change Approval Board (CAB/ECAB) Administration Administer the day-to-day operations of the Epic Change Approval Board (CAB) and Emergency Change Approval Board (ECAB). Prepare meeting agendas and change-review materials; coordinate meeting invitations and required stakeholder participation. Validate that change submissions contain required administrative information and supporting documentation before governance review. Document CAB/ECAB decisions, approvals, conditions, deferrals, action items, and escalations. Maintain an auditable record of Epic change-governance activity and communicate approved change schedules to affected stakeholders. Track action items and outstanding requirements resulting from CAB/ECAB review. Support continuous improvement of change-control procedures, templates, documentation standards, and governance workflows. Epic Data Courier Administration & Promotion Governance Configure, monitor, support, and troubleshoot Epic Data Courier interfaces used to migrate application builds between Epic environments. Manage and troubleshoot the migration of the application build across Epic environments. Maintain Data Courier interfaces and protection settings in accordance with established policies and procedures. Support application analysts with Data Courier import/export functionality and approved build-promotion processes. Resolve or coordina