SAP Release Manager
At a glance
Manager-level DevOps & Release role at Outokumpu. Katowice.
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What you'll do
- Run the SAP release lifecycle, schedule deployments, and coordinate production rollouts across multiple environments
- Coordinate the SAP authorization team’s work on access requests, incidents, enhancements, and security activities
- Align business, development, infrastructure, testing, and support teams on release dependencies and go-live plans
- Check testing, production readiness, coding quality, and engineering practices before changes reach production
- Manage release risks and contingency plans while maintaining change controls, documentation, and audit requirements
What you bring
- At least five years in release, change, service, or delivery management, or a related discipline
- You have managed complex release cycles in large enterprise environments
- You understand identity, access, and authorization management, along with software delivery and quality assurance
- You can coordinate stakeholders across business and IT teams and apply change, release, and service management principles
Who this fits
This manager-level role suits someone with release experience and enough development understanding to oversee SAP coding quality. You’ll coordinate across business and IT teams, including SAP service managers, development teams, functional experts, Basis specialists, and external partners.
From the employer
Join Us to Drive Reliable and Controlled SAP Releases
We are looking for an experienced SAP Release Manager with development understanding to lead the governance, planning, and execution of SAP releases across our business-critical SAP landscape. In this role, you will act as the primary gatekeeper for moving changes safely into production environments, ensuring that all deployments are thoroughly tested, approved, and aligned with business priorities. Based on your experience you will also look after the development quality
You will work closely with SAP Service managers, concept owners, development teams, functional experts, SAP Basis specialists and external partners to deliver high-quality releases while minimizing business risk and operational disruption.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and govern the release lifecycle, deployment calendar, and production rollout activities.
- SAP Authorizations and over all development quality: You will be coordinating the delivery of the SAP Authorization team and ensure stable, secure, and efficient service delivery for requests, incidents and enhancements. Look after the development quality and that teams are following the best practises in coding.
- Coordinate deployments, cutovers, and go-live activities across multiple environments.
- Manage release dependencies and align business, development, infrastructure, testing, and support teams.
- Ensure successful testing, production readiness, and quality standards are met before deployment.
- Identify and mitigate release risks, maintain contingency plans, and drive continuous process improvements.
- Govern release-related processes, controls, and documentation using established change management practices and tools.
- Coordinate releases and deployment activities across complex enterprise system landscapes.
- Ensure compliance with audit, governance, security, and change management requirements.
- Coordinate the delivery and prioritization of access management and security-related activities.
- Promote development quality and ensure teams follow engineering standards, best practices, and established delivery processes.
What We Are Looking For
- 5+ years of experience in Release Management, Change Management, Service Management, Delivery Management, or a related field.
- Strong experience managing complex release cycles within large-scale enterprise environments.
- Experience working with enterprise business systems and applications across multiple environments and technologies.
- Proven track record of coordinating diverse stakeholders across business and IT functions.
- Solid understanding of change, release, and service management principles and industry best practices (e.g., ITIL).
- Knowledge of identity, access, and authorization management concepts.
- Understanding of software development lifecycles, deployment processes, and quality assurance practices.
- Strong communication, coordination, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
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