SAP Environment & Release Lead — Go-Live Readiness

Atlantis IT Group; Calgary; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Atlantis IT Group is seeking a QA Environment & Release Lead to plan, govern, and execute SAP environment management, release management, and cutover activities for a S/4HANA transformation. You will act as the single point of accountability for environments, transports, deployment readiness, and go-live readiness.

Responsibilities include defining environment strategy, coordinating with IT, business, and SI partners, and leading dress rehearsals and production deployment readiness efforts for a

Responsibilities

• Define and govern environment strategy across SAP landscapes (DEV, QA, SIT, UAT, Pre-Prod, Prod).
• Ensure environment availability and readiness for testing and deployments.
• Manage environment refreshes, data provisioning, and configuration synchronization.
• Coordinate with technical teams to resolve environment-related issues.
• Maintain environment schedules and usage planning across workstreams.
• Establish and govern release management processes and deployment controls.
• Manage transport migrations and release deployments across environments.
• Govern release scope, readiness, and implementation schedules.
• Ensure compliance with change management and quality standards.
• Track release risks, dependencies, and production deployment approvals.
• Develop and manage the overall cutover strategy and master cutover plan.
• Coordinate cutover activities across business and technology teams.
• Define cutover runbooks, task sequencing, checkpoints, and escalation paths.
• Monitor cutover risks, dependencies, and milestone completion.
• Lead readiness reviews and deployment governance decisions.
• Plan and execute cutover simulations and dress rehearsals.
• Validate timelines, resource readiness, rollback plans, and deployment procedures.
• Ensure business, technical, and support teams are prepared for go-live.
• Conduct production readiness assessments and stage-gate reviews.
• Validate completion of all pre-go-live readiness activities.

Job description

Atlantis IT Group is seeking a QA Environment & Release Lead to plan, govern, and execute SAP environment management, release management, and cutover activities for a S/4HANA transformation. You will act as the single point of accountability for environments, transports, deployment readiness, and go-live readiness.

Responsibilities include defining environment strategy, coordinating with IT, business, and SI partners, and leading dress rehearsals and production deployment readiness efforts for a