Senior Manager, SAP Release Management

Auto req ID: 275423BR Job Description Purpose: The role of the SAP Release Management Sr Analyst is to assist in the planning, execution, and finalization of maintenance releases. Expectation is to plan, organize, direct, and manage activities for building and maintaining releases for promotion to production environments across Enterprise Solutions within PepsiCo IT. Communicate and manage customer expectations, including DevSecOps teams, IT Service Owners, Product Owners, Application Owners, and the PepsiCo Global & North America Business. Accountabilities: Accountable for assisting and delivery of the NA release calendar annual plan. Coordinate for SAP landscape requirements to support and align with NA projects, including third party applications. Define system environment strategy for major projects. Participate and support the SAP and major application transport strategy, assist with the coordination of transports between development, quality and user acceptance environments. Participate in key Sprint/PI planning, retrospectives and other key ceremonies. Coordinate for the synchronization of technical cutover to non-production to align systems and landscape. Coordinate release planning of post technical cutover refresh (non-production) including planning, communications, status tracking and related tasks. Coordinate and manage change freeze for SAP and non-SAP systems during Regression Testing phase. Attend and provide input requirements to relevant governance groups e.g. Release Advisory Board (RAB), Change Advisory Board (CAB) and other related approval boards. Accountable for release governance processes and deliverables e.g. Release Calendar, Release Records, Release Plans. Support DevSecOps project strategies and delivery requirements. Stays up-to-date with technology and industry trends by proactively participating in training, self-study, conferences, webcasts, user group participation, reading or other relevant means Qualifications/Requirements Years of exp: • 2+ years Project Management/Release Management Mandatory Technical Skills: • Working Knowledge of SAP ChaRM, ServiceNow, Analytics, Azure DevOps • Knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines • Good understanding of application architecture, infrastructure Mandatory Non-Technical Skills: • Knowledge of agile methodologies and waterfall • Well versed with release process • Should be able to manage multiple deployment activities Differentiating Skills: • Demonstrates ability to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization • Manage hundreds of stakeholders • Continuously add value through process improvementsRelocation Eligible: Eligible for Standard Relocation Job Type: Regular