Change Manager Technical Governance

ECS ME; Remote; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A consultancy firm is seeking a Change Manager to oversee technical governance for ERP applications. This role focuses on managing high-risk changes, ensuring compliance with standards, and influencing executive stakeholders. Ideal candidates will have senior experience in ERP change management, a strong understanding of technical governance, and the ability to standardize processes across complex environments. This position is primarily offshore but may require initial travel to understand the landscape.

Qualifications

• Senior experience in leading techno-functional change governance in large, complex enterprises.
• Proven background in managing ERP techno-functional change at scale.
• Strong understanding of ERP architectures and release management.

Responsibilities

• Govern technical change across enterprise application environments.
• Ensure changes align with enterprise technology and compliance standards.
• Chair executive-level Change Advisory Boards with a focus on technical risk.

Skills

Technical governance

ERP change management

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Standardization of change processes

Tools

Oracle ERP

ServiceNow

Informatica

Unifier

Job description

Role Purpose: Primarily offshore but open to travel or may need to travel initial month or so to understand landscape and stakeholders. Need a good candidate with strong technical, ERP and change management experience.

Responsibilities

• Change Manager – Technical Governance is the accountable authority for governing technical change across enterprise application environments. This role ensures all changes are architecturally sound, risk-managed, standardized, and aligned to enterprise technology, security, and compliance standards.
• Acts as the final governance authority for high-risk and complex techno-functional changes
• Enforces enterprise change standards and governance controls across all ERP programs
• Govern end-to-end techno-functional change across enterprise application platforms (ex: Oracle ERP, ServiceNow, Informatica, Unifier etc)
• Review, challenge, and approve technical designs, architecture decisions, and implementation plans
• Chair executive-level Change Advisory Boards (CAB) with focus on technical risk, governance, impact, and resilience
• Drive enterprise-wide standardization of change processes across large, complex organizations application landscape
• Ensure compliance with architecture, security, audit, regulatory, and operational requirements
• Oversee complex change landscapes involving multiple vendors, systems, and delivery models
• Define and track governance KPIs, risk indicators, and continuous improvement initiatives

Experience & Capability

• Senior experience leading techno-functional change governance in large, complex enterprises
• Proven background managing ERP techno-functional change at scale
• Strong understanding of ERP architectures, integrations, infrastructure, and release management
• Demonstrated success establishing standardized, repeatable enterprise change frameworks
• Deep expertise in ITSM / ITIL and enterprise governance models
• Executive-level stakeholder influence and decision-making capability

Desirable

• ERP and integrated systems exposure is a great advantage
• Experience in highly regulated or global operating environments

Travel note: Primarily offshore but open to travel or may need to travel initial month or so to understand landscape and stakeholders.