Enterprise Business Systems Release Management Lead

Enterprise Business Systems Release Management Lead

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Locations:
Seattle, WA;
Arlington, VA;
Dallas, TX;
Hazelwood, MO;
Berkeley, MO;
Kent, WA;
Mesa, AZ;
Miami, FL;
Ridley Park, PA.

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• Define, own, and publish the Enterprise Business Systems (EBS) release calendar, linking multi-year strategy to tactical quarterly deployment
• Convert the 5-year roadmap into a prioritized, executable 2-year quarterly release plan and maintain an 18-month lookahead (published each December and updated quarterly)
• Ensure a predictable quarterly cadence for major enterprise deployments and an agile approach for incremental value delivery
• Work directly with functional Vice Presidents and Product Managers to manage cross-functional dependencies, assess risks, and drive release readiness
• Lead the organization in measuring and communicating the business value and Return on Investments (ROI) of releases, not just the technical functionality deployed
• Ensure releases optimize for minimal customization, data integrity, security and compliance, and enable enterprise integration
• Ensure release readiness gates, quality standards, testing strategies, and security signoffs are enforced
• Coordinate rollback and contingency plans to preserve business continuity
• Manage release processes, tooling, and telemetry (release metrics, value delivery, defect trends, deployment time frames)
• Coordinate with strategic systems integrators and platform providers to accelerate delivery and scale capabilities
• Provide a critical technical and functional lens, ensuring seamless and safe releases across complex SAP (e.g., S/4
  
  HANA) and Supply Chain applications
• Support EBS Leadership Team, driving governance and continuous improvement of the Enterprise Release Management function

• 10+ years of experience in IT Architecture and Development
• 5+ years of experience in SAP release management and/or test automation
• 5+ years of experience developing strategic technology roadmaps or plans
• 5+ years of experience in Executive Presentation experience at the VP level or above
• 5+ years of experience working on a SAP platform
• 5+ years of experience with agile project/program and software product release management
• 5+ years of experience with CI/CD and configuration management with release processes

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work or military experience
• Certifications such as Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Release Train Engineer, Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Experience with collaboration between business and Information Technology
• Experience with Business Change Management approaches and driving adoption at scale
• Experience operating in a high-visibility, fast-moving enterprise environment with multiple critical interdependencies
• Experience managing complex cross-functional dependencies across Security, Infrastructure, Data, Manufacturing, and Business Operations
• Experience translating technical releases to measurable business outcomes and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)
• Experience with Software as a Service (SaaS) application such as Workday, Ariba, Concur, Salesforce
• Experience with translating long-term strategy into executable plans
• Experience with risk management, release gating, and readiness reviews
• Experience with stakeholder management, facilitation, and negotiation

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