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Release Manager governing SAP S/4HANA release, transport, and change controls for C5MI’s mission-critical consulting programs. Leading cutovers, go-lives, DevSecOps integration, and deployment governance.
Responsibilities:
- Own the program release strategy and release calendar across development, quality assurance, staging, training, and production environments
- Coordinate concurrent process area delivery streams
- Design and govern the transport landscape and transport route architecture, including sequencing, dependencies, conflicts, and overtakes
- Administer change request and transport management tooling, approval gates, and automated import scheduling
- Establish and enforce change control governance, including the change advisory board, emergency change procedures, freeze windows, and production approval evidence
- Enforce separation of duties and maintain evidence for information system controls testing
- Ensure promoted changes have completed testing, defect closure, documentation, and end-to-end traceability
- Lead cutover planning and execution for deployment waves, including rehearsals, go/no-go criteria, command center operations, and rollback planning
- Coordinate with risk management and security functions to maintain configuration management controls and system authorization
- Partner with platform operations on system refreshes, client strategy, kernel and support package application, and maintenance windows
- Integrate release management with DevSecOps pipelines, automated builds, static/security scanning, and deployment gates
- Establish and report release metrics, including deployment frequency, change failure rate, emergency change volume, and defect escape rate
- Set release and change management standards and mentor delivery teams
- Support post-deployment hypercare and transition release operations to sustainment
- Travel to client sites as needed, up to 50%
- Perform other related tasks as assigned by the direct supervisor
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience; 8–10 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, or 10–13 years of relevant experience without a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree
- 8+ years of SAP experience, including significant experience in release, change, transport, or deployment management
- Hands-on expertise with SAP transport management, multi-system landscape design, and transport dependency and conflict management
- Experience with SAP Change Request Management (ChaRM), SAP Cloud ALM, or an equivalent enterprise change management platform
- Experience leading cutover and go-live execution for an enterprise system deployment, including dress rehearsals, go/no-go decision support, and hypercare
- Experience operating a formal change advisory board and enforcing documented approval and separation of duties controls
- Experience integrating release processes with DevSecOps toolchains and automated testing
- Ability to set standards and best practices and influence delivery teams across multiple workstreams
- Must meet DoDM 8140.03 IAT Level II baseline certification requirements, such as CompTIA Security+ CE, before privileged production access
- Active Secret security clearance or ability to obtain and maintain one prior to assignment; requires U.S. citizenship
- Ability to travel up to 50% to client sites
- Adherence to C5MI policies, procedures, core values, quality assurance, and information security requirements
- Preferred: active Secret security clearance at time of hire
- Preferred: experience supporting federal ERP modernization programs, Department of War SAP environments, or defense business systems acquired under DoDI 5000.75
- Preferred: ITIL 4 Foundation, SAP Certified Technology Associate, or SAFe Release Train Engineer certification
- Preferred: configuration management under the risk management framework
- Preferred: dual-maintenance and retrofit processes
- Preferred: SAP Activate methodology using a fit-to-standard, clean-core approach
Benefits:
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Life insurance
- Long-term disability coverage
- 401(k) plan
- Bonus opportunities
- Paid holidays
- Paid time off
- Personal development investment
- Reasonable accommodation for disability or religious observance
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