Strategic ERP Release & PMO Lead

Tech Mirrors; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Tech Mirrors in Irvine, CA is seeking an experienced SAP PMO & Release Management Lead to oversee ERP deployment and cutover planning. The role coordinates release governance, deployment strategies, and risk mitigation across business, technical, and vendor teams to ensure smooth ERP implementations.

You will drive end-to-end release calendars, manage multi-stream schedules, and lead go-live events with a focus on minimizing downtime and ensuring business continuity.

Responsibilities

• Establish and manage release governance frameworks aligned with ERP program milestones.
• Coordinate across functional, technical, infrastructure, security, and business teams.
• Track program deliverables, risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans.
• Maintain RAID logs and ensure proactive escalation management.
• Support steering committee reporting and executive-level status updates.
• Define and manage end-to-end ERP release calendars.
• Coordinate multi-stream release schedules across development, testing, and production environments.
• Manage release scope validation and readiness checkpoints.
• Facilitate cross-team release planning workshops.
• Ensure release documentation completeness and sign-offs.
• Develop deployment strategies for large-scale ERP rollouts.
• Coordinate environment readiness across DEV, QA, UAT, and Production.
• Support infrastructure, security, and application readiness validation.
• Manage release packaging and deployment sequencing.
• Ensure rollback planning and fallback procedures are documented and validated.
• Lead war-room execution during go-live events.
• Develop detailed ERP cutover plans including task sequencing and ownership.
• Identify deployment risks and operational constraints early.
• Coordinate mitigation strategies across stakeholder groups.
• Manage integration dependencies across upstream/downstream systems.
• Ensure business continuity and minimal operational disruption.
• Partner with business owners, ERP functional leads, infrastructure teams, and vendors.
• Coordinate communication between delivery towers and leadership stakeholders.
• Support executive readiness updates prior to go-live decisions.
• Facilitate Go/No-Go readiness checkpoints.

Skills

ERP Release Management

Stakeholder Management

Risk Mitigation

Go/No-Go Gatekeeping

Job description

Tech Mirrors in Irvine, CA is seeking an experienced SAP PMO & Release Management Lead to oversee ERP deployment and cutover planning. The role coordinates release governance, deployment strategies, and risk mitigation across business, technical, and vendor teams to ensure smooth ERP implementations.

You will drive end-to-end release calendars, manage multi-stream schedules, and lead go-live events with a focus on minimizing downtime and ensuring business continuity.