Cloud ERP Release & Environment Management Lead

RED Global; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

RED Global is seeking a Cloud ERP Release & Environment Management Lead to own the integrated ERP release calendar across SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and connected enterprise applications. You will define release governance, entry/exit criteria, cutover controls, deployment approvals, rollback/contingency planning, and hypercare expectations.

Coordinate SAP Public Cloud releases and upgrades, oversee environment strategy across development, test, quality, and production landscapes, and

Responsibilities

• 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.

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.