SAP Release Manager

Senior Release Engineer

£50,000 - £80,000

Investigo is partnering with a global organization that is going through a huge multi-year program to revamp its technology and digital solutions footprint, SAP will act as the 'digital core' for the company's major processes enabled by SAP's latest cloud and S4HANA offerings, they offer the opportunity for exponential career growth with support along the way, throughout the company they deliver a successful work-life balance and promote flexible work-hours.

As Senior Engineer, you will be a key part of the team responsible to implement, manage and own the Release Life Cycle processes for code through development, test, and into production environments. You will have one or multiple release cycles assigned to you to own and deliver from end to end ranging from smaller maintenance releases to large complex integrated Business releases.

Key responsibilities
Engagement Purpose
Working in the SAP Enablement Platform as part of the Release Management team you will have a key role being part of the team responsible to design, implement, manage and own the Release Life Cycle processes for the release manifest through development, test, and into production environments. You will have one or multiple release cycles assigned to you to own and deliver from end to end ranging from smaller maintenance releases to complex integrated Business releases.

Roles & Responsibilities
* Design, implement, manage and own the Release Life Cycle processes for code through development, test, and into production environments.
* Plan, own and maintain a centralized view of the SAP Release Calendar.
* Pro-actively analyses current processes and practices, suggesting and driving improvements to the promotional model.
* Analyses products and technologies and makes appropriate suggestions to influence technical direction and use of technologies after making necessary evaluations.
* Work with software engineering teams to improve engineering processes and practices associated with continuously building, deploying, and updating software and environments.
* Stakeholder engagement on an ongoing basis with all teams involved in product development and release activity including release engineering, product build teams, business product owners, operations, program and project management, and others to ensure execution and deliverables per plan.
* Work with all delivery teams to ensure that SAP Release milestones and interdependencies are clearly defined and that they can be managed and measured to ensure management information is timely and accurate and that areas for improvement are identified.
* Provide management reporting and updates.
* Create, implement and continuously improve measures and metrics covering the release life cycle gaining insights into performance and aimed at increasing speed and quality of delivery.
* Lead the effort of defining the IT strategic direction for release engineering tools to ensure the process requirements of release management are built in.
* Work with the service introduction teams to ensure the end to end business process capability is defined and assured ahead of release roll out
* Conduct release readiness reviews, milestone reviews, and business Go/No-Go reviews
* Manage risks and resolve issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality
* Participate in any change advisory board meetings to discuss release scope and/or roadblocks
* Mentors and guides junior staff to build overall capability within the department.

We are looking for
* 5 or more years of recent SAP technical release engineering and delivery experience working in Agile delivery environments as a release manager or lead.
* SME in in structured software release processes and procedures
* 5-10 years of experience working in an application product build environment in a technical role
* 2- 3 years practical S4Hana or SAP legacy release and rollout delivery experience
* Experience working with Solution Manager using the Focus Build framework for delivery would be good to have.
* Understand change management controls and have experience with Charm in Focus build and Solution Manager
* Understand SAP CTS Process
* Experience of running SAP product upgrade release's
* Ability to work with teams, to influence, to co-operate, to collaborate are essential key skills to get teams working at outstanding levels
* Excellent communication skills across all levels
* Self-Management is a key attribute expected for this role. Being able to work without the need for follow up or too much management is important.
* Self-motivated and self-starter once work assigned results are guaranteed almost always.
* Expert level knowledge and experience working across the software development lifecycle, and end to end promotional model.
* Proven ability to pull a diverse group of individuals with different goals together and facilitate productive discussions
* Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional work teams toward common delivery outcome in complex and multi-application environments
* Demonstrated effective leadership and analytical skills
* Is results oriented and has a high degree of accountability, commitment, and responsibility.

Senior Release Engineer

£50,000 - £80,000