Hybrid SAP S/4HANA Cloud Release & Environment Lead

Planet Group; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Planet Group is seeking an experienced SAP Release & Environment Management professional to own enterprise release governance for a cloud ERP landscape built on SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition. You will establish predictable release trains, synchronize configurations across environments, and guide cloud release adoption with a broad set of business, technical, and vendor teams.

The role emphasizes governance, 3-system landscape coordination, cutover controls, hypercare, and post‑deployment

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in enterprise application release, environment, change, or operations management.
• Knowledge of the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition release and upgrade lifecycle and landscape concepts
• Experience with 3-system landscape configuration synchronization and SAP Central Business Configuration
• Experience with release planning, environment calendars, and rebaselining and merge governance
• Experience with cutover, rollback, hypercare, and emergency change management
• Experience coordinating cloud/SaaS releases across complex, integrated ERP landscapes
• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• Manage the integrated release calendar spanning SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and connected enterprise applications
• Define release governance, including entry and exit criteria, cutover controls, deployment approvals, rollback and contingency planning, and hypercare expectations
• Coordinate impact assessments for SAP cloud releases and upgrades, covering feature review, regression scope, post-upgrade testing, and business readiness
• Own the environment strategy across development, test, quality, and production-aligned landscapes, including purpose, refresh and rebaseline principles, access, and scheduling
• Coordinate configuration synchronization and deployment sequencing across the 3-system SAP landscape
• Maintain release plans, environment calendars, configuration baselines, change records, and deployment evidence
• Lead release readiness reviews and drive closure of open defects, testing gaps, data dependencies, and operational readiness actions
• Coordinate release packaging and deployment with functional, technical, integration, data, security, and vendor teams
• Oversee 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

Skills

Enterprise release management

Environment management

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

Release planning

ITIL change/release management

Cloud/SaaS coordination

Cross-team coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Engineering, Computer Science

Tools

SAP S/4HANA Cloud

SAP Cloud ALM

ServiceNow

Azure DevOps/Jira

SAP Ariba

Fieldglass

BTP/Integration Suite

Job description

Planet Group is seeking an experienced SAP Release & Environment Management professional to own enterprise release governance for a cloud ERP landscape built on SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition. You will establish predictable release trains, synchronize configurations across environments, and guide cloud release adoption with a broad set of business, technical, and vendor teams.

The role emphasizes governance, 3-system landscape coordination, cutover controls, hypercare, and post‑deployment