A Snapshot of Your Day
This position is an addition to the Service and Project Ownership team to ensure business continuity for critical SAP S4HANA systems. As a Release Management Lead, this role is essential for governing the software release lifecycle within the SAP S4HANA Run & Change organization, directly supporting the stability and evolution of our enterprise platforms. To achieve this, the role is structured around three core areas: strategic release planning and governance, stakeholder coordination and requirements analysis, and quality assurance oversight. This approach ensures a holistic management of the release process, from initial planning and scope definition through to successful deployment and post-release support. Given the focus on process ownership and complex SAP S4HANA environments, the ideal candidate will be a subject matter expert with extensive experience in release management methodologies. Key requirements include strong analytical skills, the ability to act as a liaison between business and technical teams, and a proven track record of leading large-scale software releases.
How You'll Make an Impact
- Own the end-to-end release management lifecycle for enterprise ERP systems, including planning, scheduling, and execution.
- Define and enforce release governance, policies, quality gates, and controls to ensure production stability.
- Lead release readiness reviews, milestone checkpoints, and business go/no-go decision forums.
- Identify, manage, and mitigate risks and dependencies impacting release scope, timeline, or quality.
- Act as the primary liaison between business, development, QA, and project teams for release alignment.
- Translate business needs into clear, actionable release requirements for technical teams.
- Oversee deployments across environments, ensuring minimal business disruption.
- Drive post-release evaluation, incident resolution, and continuous improvement.
What You Bring
- Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Extensive experience with strong focus on release, change, or ERP systems management.
- Proven experience leading complex enterprise ERP releases (e.g., SAP).
- Strong expertise in release, process, and project management methodologies.
- Hands-on experience with Agile delivery, SDLC, and UAT coordination.
- Proficiency with JIRA, Confluence, and enterprise workflow tools.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and systems-thinking skills.
- Excellent collaboration, stakeholder management, and strategic communication abilities.
About the Team
Our Corporate Functions are essential in driving the company's strategic initiatives and ensuring operational excellence across various departments, business areas, and regions. These roles support our vision to become the most valued energy technology company in the world. As part of our team, you contribute to our vision by shaping the global energy transition, partnering with our internal and external stakeholders, and conducting business responsibly and in compliance with legal requirements and regulations.
Who is Siemens Energy?
At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100.000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.
Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.
Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo
Our Commitment to Diversity
Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character - no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.
Rewards/Benefits
- In addition to an attractive remuneration package in line with the market, you can expect an attractive employer-financed company pension scheme
- We also offer the opportunity to become a Siemens Energy shareholder
- We offer our employees the opportunity to work flexibly and remotely, and our inspiring offices provide space for collaboration and creativity
- The professional and personal development of our employees is very important to us. We provide them with the opportunities to learn and develop in a self-determined way, various attractive programmes and learning materials are available for this purpose
- In relation to the "compatibility of family and work", we have a wide range of offers, e.g. flexible working time models, childcare places at many locations, the possibility of trial part-time work or even a sabbatical
We value equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with disabilities.
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