SAP Release Manager

We are: Accenture’s SAP practice, and we bring the New to life using design thinking, agile development methodologies, and the latest smart tech like IoT, automation, and AI. We even built myConcerto, a mix of SAP and Accenture that helps lead our clients to big wins. Ready to learn as much as you can? We train our people on "new" SAP like SAP Leonardo, S/4HANA and Cloud, and we offer classes and support through our 50,000+ member community. It’s also nice to know our hard work doesn’t go unrecognized. We’ve got over 70 SAP awards—more than any other partner—and we’re the leading business partner for SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Ariba, SAP Hybris, SAP FieldGlass, SAP Concur, and more. Visit us here to find out more about Accenture's SAP practice. You are: An SAP Release Manager is accountable for the end‑to‑end planning, governance, and operational control of all SAP environments (e.g., DEV, QA, UAT, PRE‑PROD, PROD) to ensure that projects, enhancements, testing cycles, and production operations can proceed predictably, safely, and without conflict. The role owns the environment strategy and day‑to‑day orchestration across the SAP landscape, acting as the single point of coordination between projects, AMS, release management, Basis, testing teams, and business stakeholders. The work:

• Owns the overall SAP release and environment strategy and governance across all landscapes.
• Defines and enforces environment usage rules, refresh policies, access standards, and naming conventions aligned with SAP and enterprise governance.
• Ensures environments are used appropriately for their intended purpose (build, test, training, cutover, production).
• Plans, schedules, and controls the build, testing, and deployment of SAP releases, delivering new functionality required by the business while protecting the integrity and stability of existing services.
• Plans, schedules, and controls environment usage across:
• Projects
• AMS enhancements and defect fixes
• Regression testing cycles
• Maintenance and technical upgrades
• Manages who is using which environment, when, proactively resolving conflicts between concurrent initiatives. Coordinates the bundling of major and minor releases, including projects, AMS enhancements, and defect fixes, to ensure all components are ready for integrated testing and deployment within the agreed release schedule.
• Maintains a single integrated environment calendar covering releases, testing windows, refreshes, freezes, and maintenance periods.
• Ensures a smooth transition from BUILD to RUN, including release readiness and stakeholder coordination. Ensures all stakeholders are informed of upcoming releases and that the elements required to deploy and operate the services and products are delivered, controlled, and traceable.
• Coordinates with SAP Basis teams to proactively monitor and manage S/4HANA system performance and technical readiness for releases.
• Ensures SAP Basis best practices, including kernel updates, HANA tuning, and job scheduling reviews, are appropriately planned and coordinated with the responsible technical teams.
• Ensures appropriate preventive maintenance regimes are in place, including monitoring relevant SAP Notes and coordinating required updates.
• Coordinates regular environment health checks and drives related improvement initiatives with SAP Basis and technical teams.
• 3 days in office is required

Here's what you need:

• 10-12 years of SAP Release Management experience.
• Working knowledge of SAP Basis/BTP and SAP release and environment management is required.
• English is required for this position as this role will regularly interact with stakeholders across Canada, US and other countries across our Global footprint where English is the common language. Due to the significant high volume of interactions with these English-speaking stakeholders, which is inherent to this position, it is not possible to reorganize the company's activities to avoid this requirement.

Bonus points:

• English is must, French is bonus.

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