Senior SAP Cloud ERP 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 SAP cloud releases with cross-functional teams.

You will manage the integrated release calendar, define governance criteria, coordinate impact assessments, and oversee environment strategy from

Qualifications

• 8+ years of enterprise release, environment, change, or operations management experience.
• Knowledge of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition release lifecycle and landscape concepts.
• Experience coordinating a 3-system landscape and SAP Central Business Configuration.
• Familiarity with ITIL-aligned change, release, and service management.

Responsibilities

• Manage release calendar spanning SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and connected apps.
• Define release governance, cutover controls, approvals, and hypercare planning.
• Coordinate impact assessments for cloud releases and upgrades.
• Own environment strategy across development, test, quality, and production landscapes.
• Coordinate configuration synchronization across the 3-system SAP landscape.
• Maintain release plans, calendars, change records, and deployment evidence.
• Collaborate with QA on regression strategy and risk-based testing.
• Escalate risks with clear business impact and options.

Skills

Enterprise release management

S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

3-system landscape synchronization

Release planning & calendars

Cutover/rollback/hypercare

Cloud/SaaS release coordination

Test management & regression strategy

ITIL change/release management

Cross-team coordination

Education

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

Tools

SAP Cloud ALM

ServiceNow

Azure DevOps/Jira

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 SAP cloud releases with cross-functional teams.

You will manage the integrated release calendar, define governance criteria, coordinate impact assessments, and oversee environment strategy from