Cloud ERP Release & Environment Management Lead

Red Commerce Schweiz GmbH; Chase (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Red Commerce Schweiz GmbH is seeking an experienced Cloud ERP Release & Environment Management Lead to own the ERP release calendar for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and connected applications.

You will define governance, manage production change windows, coordinate multi-system environments, and drive readiness reviews with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth deployments and robust post-release support.

Responsibilities

• Own the integrated ERP release calendar across SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and connected applications.
• Define release governance, entry/exit criteria, cutover controls, deployment approvals, rollback/contingency planning, and hypercare expectations.
• Coordinate SAP Public Cloud release and upgrade impact assessment, including feature review, regression scope, post-upgrade testing, and business readiness.
• Own application environment strategy across development/configuration, test, quality, and production-aligned landscapes, including purpose, refresh/rebaseline principles, access, and scheduling.
• Coordinate configuration synchronization and deployment sequencing across the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 3-system landscape where applicable.
• Manage rebaselining and environment merge plans for parallel workstreams, ensuring changes are reconciled, tested, traceable, and promoted through approved paths.
• Maintain release dependency maps spanning configuration, extensions, integrations, data, security roles, workflows, and connected SaaS products.
• Chair release readiness reviews and drive closure of unresolved defects, testing gaps, data dependencies, and operational readiness actions.
• Coordinate release packaging and deployment activities with functional, technical, integration, data, security, and vendor teams.
• Own production change windows, freeze periods, emergency-change governance, and post-deployment verification.
• Establish release metrics, defect leakage reporting, deployment success measures, and continuous improvement actions.
• Maintain authoritative release plans, environment calendars, configuration baselines, change records, and deployment evidence.
• Partner with QA to define regression strategy, automated-test coverage, upgrade-test execution, and risk-based test scope.
• Coordinate business communications for planned releases, outages/limitations, validation needs, and post-release status.
• Manage operational handoff from project delivery into steady-state support and ensure support teams receive runbooks and known-error information.
• * Escalate provider/SAP release risks, environment constraints, or cross-team conflicts with clear business impact and decision options.

Job description

Cloud ERP Release & Environment Management Lead

• Own the integrated ERP release calendar across SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and connected enterprise applications. Define release governance, entry/exit criteria, cutover controls, deployment approvals, rollback/contingency planning, and hypercare expectations. Coordinate SAP Public Cloud release and upgrade impact assessment, including feature review, regression scope, post-upgrade testing, and business readiness. Own application environment strategy across development/configuration, test, quality, and production-aligned landscapes, including purpose, refresh/rebaseline principles, access, and scheduling. Coordinate configuration synchronization and deployment sequencing across the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 3-system landscape where applicable. Manage rebaselining and environment merge plans for parallel workstreams, ensuring changes are reconciled, tested, traceable, and promoted through approved paths. Maintain release dependency maps spanning configuration, extensions, integrations, data, security roles, workflows, and connected SaaS products. Chair release readiness reviews and drive closure of unresolved defects, testing gaps, data dependencies, and operational readiness actions. Coordinate release packaging and deployment activities with functional, technical, integration, data, security, and vendor teams. Own production change windows, freeze periods, emergency-change governance, and post-deployment verification. Establish release metrics, defect leakage reporting, deployment success measures, and continuous improvement actions. Maintain authoritative release plans, environment calendars, configuration baselines, change records, and deployment evidence. Partner with QA to define regression strategy, automated-test coverage, upgrade-test execution, and risk-based test scope. Coordinate business communications for planned releases, outages/limitations, validation needs, and post-release status. Manage operational handoff from project delivery into steady-state support and ensure support teams receive runbooks and known-error information. * Escalate provider/SAP release risks, environment constraints, or cross-team conflicts with clear business impact and decision options.