Release Manager

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The Release Manager owns the release, change, and transport management discipline for a large-scale, greenfield SAP S/4HANA financial management modernization program for a Department of War (DoW) organization, accountable for the safe, auditable movement of configuration and code across a multi-system SAP S/4HANA landscape supporting nine concurrent financial process areas. This position establishes the release calendar, transport strategy, and change control governance that allow parallel process area development to converge without regression, and leads cutover and go-live execution for each deployment wave. The Release Manager is the standards authority for the program’s change process, ensuring every promoted change is approved, tested, traceable, and consistent with the configuration management requirements that sustain the system’s authority to operate.
Note: This position is contingent upon contract award.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
Owns the program release strategy and release calendar across development, quality assurance, staging, training, and production environments, coordinating concurrent process area delivery streams.
Designs and governs the transport landscape and transport route architecture, including transport sequencing, dependency management, and conflict and overtake analysis.
Administers change request and transport management tooling, including change control workflow, approval gates, and automated import scheduling.
Establishes and enforces change control governance, including the change advisory board, emergency change procedures, freeze windows, and documented approval evidence for every production promotion.
Enforces separation of duties between development, approval, and transport import authority, and maintains evidence of that separation to support information system controls testing.
Ensures all promoted changes are supported by completed testing, defect closure, documentation, and traceability from requirement through design, build, and test.
Leads cutover planning and execution for each deployment wave, including cutover task sequencing, dress rehearsals, go/no-go criteria, command center operations, and rollback planning.
Coordinates with the risk management framework and security functions to ensure releases comply with configuration management controls and do not invalidate the system authorization.
Partners with platform operations on system refresh, client strategy, kernel and support package application, and maintenance window coordination.
Integrates release management with the DevSecOps pipeline, including automated build, static and security scanning, and deployment gates.