Release Manager

🕒 October 19

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $143.6k - $160.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

👔 Manager

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C5MI

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2016

💼 Consulting

🏢 Enterprise

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Enterprise • Logistics

C5MI is a supply‑chain transformation and systems implementation firm that operationalizes SAP enterprise systems for real‑time execution. The company focuses on implementing and sustaining SAP S/4HANA, SAP EWM (Extended Warehouse Management), and SAP TM (Transportation Management), and builds end‑to‑end solutions that connect digital core systems to Industry 4. 0 technologies (digital manufacturing, AMRs/AGVs, RFID, digital twins) and AI/automation to improve visibility, adaptability, predictability and autonomy across warehouses and distribution networks. C5MI offers program and project management, an Automation Center of Excellence, federal contract support, and cloud/partner integrations (Google Vertex AI, UiPath AI Center, Zebra RFID, Kinexon, etc. ) to drive supply chain resilience, operational clarity, and execution at scale.

📋 Description

• Own the program release strategy and release calendar across development, quality assurance, staging, training, and production environments • Coordinate concurrent process area delivery streams • Design and govern the transport landscape and transport route architecture, including sequencing, dependencies, conflicts, and overtakes • Administer change request and transport management tooling, approval gates, and automated import scheduling • Establish and enforce change control governance, including the change advisory board, emergency change procedures, freeze windows, and production approval evidence • Enforce separation of duties and maintain evidence for information system controls testing • Ensure promoted changes have completed testing, defect closure, documentation, and end-to-end traceability • Lead cutover planning and execution for deployment waves, including rehearsals, go/no-go criteria, command center operations, and rollback planning • Coordinate with risk management and security functions to maintain configuration management controls and system authorization • Partner with platform operations on system refreshes, client strategy, kernel and support package application, and maintenance windows • Integrate release management with DevSecOps pipelines, automated builds, static/security scanning, and deployment gates • Establish and report release metrics, including deployment frequency, change failure rate, emergency change volume, and defect escape rate • Set release and change management standards and mentor delivery teams • Support post-deployment hypercare and transition release operations to sustainment • Travel to client sites as needed, up to 50% • Perform other related tasks as assigned by the direct supervisor

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience; 8–10 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, or 10–13 years of relevant experience without a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree • 8+ years of SAP experience, including significant experience in release, change, transport, or deployment management • Hands-on expertise with SAP transport management, multi-system landscape design, and transport dependency and conflict management • Experience with SAP Change Request Management (ChaRM), SAP Cloud ALM, or an equivalent enterprise change management platform • Experience leading cutover and go-live execution for an enterprise system deployment, including dress rehearsals, go/no-go decision support, and hypercare • Experience operating a formal change advisory board and enforcing documented approval and separation of duties controls • Experience integrating release processes with DevSecOps toolchains and automated testing • Ability to set standards and best practices and influence delivery teams across multiple workstreams • Must meet DoDM 8140.03 IAT Level II baseline certification requirements, such as CompTIA Security+ CE, before privileged production access • Active Secret security clearance or ability to obtain and maintain one prior to assignment; requires U.S. citizenship • Ability to travel up to 50% to client sites • Adherence to C5MI policies, procedures, core values, quality assurance, and information security requirements • Preferred: active Secret security clearance at time of hire • Preferred: experience supporting federal ERP modernization programs, Department of War SAP environments, or defense business systems acquired under DoDI 5000.75 • Preferred: ITIL 4 Foundation, SAP Certified Technology Associate, or SAFe Release Train Engineer certification • Preferred: configuration management under the risk management framework • Preferred: dual-maintenance and retrofit processes • Preferred: SAP Activate methodology using a fit-to-standard, clean-core approach

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical coverage • Dental coverage • Vision coverage • Life insurance • Long-term disability coverage • 401(k) plan • Bonus opportunities • Paid holidays • Paid time off • Personal development investment • Reasonable accommodation for disability or religious observance