Cloud ERP Release & Environment Management Lead / Cloud ERP Release & Environment Management Leadess

Cloud ERP Release & Environment Management Lead

As the Cloud ERP Release & Environment Management Lead, you will play a pivotal role in overseeing the integrated ERP release calendar across SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and its connected enterprise applications. Your responsibilities will encompass a wide range of tasks, ensuring the smooth operation and governance of releases.

Key Responsibilities

• Define release governance, entry/exit criteria, and cutover controls.
• Manage deployment approvals, rollback/contingency planning, and hypercare expectations.
• Coordinate impact assessments for SAP Public Cloud releases and upgrades, including feature reviews and post-upgrade testing.
• Develop an application environment strategy for development/configuration, testing, quality, and production landscapes.
• Oversee configuration synchronization and deployment sequencing within the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 3-system landscape.
• Manage rebaselining and environment merge plans for parallel workstreams, ensuring traceable changes.
• Maintain release dependency maps across configuration, extensions, integrations, data, and security roles.
• Chair release readiness reviews and address any unresolved defects or operational readiness actions.
• Coordinate release packaging and deployment with functional, technical, and vendor teams.
• Own production change windows and emergency-change governance, along with post-deployment verification.
• Establish key metrics for release success, defect leakage, and ongoing improvement actions.
• Maintain detailed release plans, environment calendars, change records, and deployment documentation.
• Collaborate with QA to define regression strategies and risk-based test scopes.
• Manage business communications related to planned releases, outages, and post-release updates.
• Facilitate operational handoffs from project delivery into steady-state support, providing necessary documentation to support teams.
• Escalate any provider or SAP release risks and cross-team conflicts with clear business impacts and proposed decision options.

If you believe you are a suitable match for this role, apply online using the form below. Only applications matching the job profile will be considered.