Chief Release Manager

## Chief Release Manager Apply remote type:
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June 20, 2026 (14 days left to apply) job requisition :
JRChief Release Manager
** Company:
** The Boeing Company Boeing is seeking an accomplished
** Chief*
* ** Release Manager
** for our
** Renton, WA
** or
** Dallas, TX
** locations, to orchestrate end-to-end SAP releases across complex, multi-wave enterprise programs following the SAP Activate methodology. In this pivotal role you will serve as the central hub connecting functional work streams, technical teams, Basis operations, and business stakeholders — ensuring every release wave lands on time, within scope, and at the quality bar the business demands.

You will define and govern the release calendar, manage change & release strategies, coordinate transport management, and drive continuous improvement across the release lifecycle. Your deep understanding of SAP architecture — spanning Basis, ABAP development, and key functional modules — equips you to identify risks early, broker technical trade-offs, and keep complex dependencies from derailing program milestones.
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* Position Responsibilities:

**** Release Planning & Wave Orchestration
*** Design and maintain comprehensive wave-based release roadmaps aligned with SAP Activate phases (Discover, Prepare, Explore, Realize, Deploy, Run)
* Define release scope, sequencing, and cutover strategies for each wave, coordinating across value streams, work streams, business and technical streams
* Establish and enforce release gates, entry/exit criteria, and quality checkpoints across all waves
* Lead release planning ceremonies including kick-offs, milestone reviews, go/no-go calls, and post-release retrospectives.
* Manage wave-level interdependencies, critical path analysis, and schedule risk mitigation
** Environment & Transport Management
*** Own the SAP system migration strategy — defining configuration and governance of transport landscape from Development, QA, Pre-Production, and Production environments
* Govern the transport management process using SAP certified migration tools (Active Control, Rev-Trac, Cloud ALM etc), ensuring all transports are tracked, tested, and promoted through the landscape in a controlled manner
* Coordinate activities including system refreshes, client copies, kernel upgrades, and patch cycles in alignment with release schedules
* Manage environment availability windows and prevent environment conflicts across concurrent work streams
** SAP Technical Oversight
*** Apply working knowledge of SAP Basis (system administration, workload management, performance tuning, authorization concepts) to facilitate technical release decisions
* Collaborate with ABAP development teams on transport packaging, code freeze enforcement, and regression risk assessment
* Evaluate technical change impact analyses and translate findings into actionable release risk decisions
* Oversee SAP system integrations, middleware touchpoints, and interface testing coordination within the release cycle
* Support solution validation activities including SIT, UAT, performance testing, and cutover rehearsals
****** Stakeholder & Governance
*** Serve as the single point of accountability for release status across program leadership, business owners, and SI partners
* Maintain the release register, change log, and decision log; produce executive dashboards and release status reports
* Chair the Release Advisory Board (RAB) or Change Advisory Board (CAB) cadences
* Identify, escalate, and resolve release blockers in a timely manner, broker trade-off decisions between scope, schedule, and quality
* Partner with PMO, Solution Architects, and Business Process Owners to align release content with program objectives
** Cutover & Go-Live Management
*** Develop and maintain detailed cutover plans and runbooks for each wave go-live event
* Orchestrate dry-run/mock cutover rehearsals and document lessons learned for continuous improvement
* Lead hypercare planning, war-room operations, and stabilization activities in the immediate post-go-live period
* Coordinate decommissioning…