D365 , Release Manager

Position: D365 Staff, Release Manager
Location: Leavesden Green

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Your New Role  :

As a D365 Release Manager, you will play a critical role in governing and executing the end-to-end release management lifecycle for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance, Supply Chain, and Commerce platforms. The role will report to the Senior Director Retail Experiences Technology and will be based out of Leavesden Park, Watford.

You will own the technical release strategy, environment management, and deployment governance, ensuring code, configuration, and data changes move seamlessly through development, test, and production environments with minimal risk and maximum stability.

This is a hands-on leadership role that combines Dev Ops engineering, Azure infrastructure management, and D365 deployment expertise, ensuring the enterprise D365 platform operates as a reliable, secure, and scalable foundation for Warner Bros. Discovery’s global business operations.

Acting as the central coordination point between technical teams, solution architects, Microsoft partners, and program management, you’ll design and operate robust release pipelines, quality gates, and environment controls to deliver continuous improvement across the D365 ecosystem.

Your Role Accountabilities:
Release Governance & Planning

Define and own the Dynamics 365 release management framework, including deployment calendar, release cadence, quality gates, and approval workflows.

Establish and enforce release governance processes, ensuring all code/config changes are reviewed, tested, and signed off prior to deployment.

Coordinate with delivery leads, solution architects, and functional consultants to align release schedules with project milestones and business readiness.

Manage cutover planning, go-live execution, and post-release validation activities.

Serve as the single point of accountability for all D365 releases across multiple environments and vendors.

Dev Ops & Automation
Design, build, and manage Azure Dev Ops pipelines for Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations (F&O), Commerce, and supporting services.

Implement CI/CD automation for build, package, deploy, and regression testing across environments.

Govern branching, merging, and build strategies in Azure Repos or Git-based source control systems.

Collaborate with development teams to define automated testing and quality validation processes.

Maintain deployment scripts, tools, and templates to accelerate and standardize D365 releases.

Environment & Infrastructure Management
Oversee all D365 environments—Development, SIT, UAT, Pre-Prod, and Production—ensuring consistency and version alignment.

Manage environment refreshes, data masking, configuration migration, and database backups in collaboration with infrastructure and Microsoft support teams.

Optimize LCS (Lifecycle Services) projects and environment topology to ensure performance and reliability.

Coordinate with Azure Infrastructure teams to manage resource provisioning, scaling, and monitoring for the D365 platform.

Ensure high availability and disaster recovery readiness through Azure-based resilience strategies.

Technical Leadership & Collaboration
Partner with Solution and Technical Architects to define and implement Dev Sec Ops  best practices for Dynamics 365.

Act as the technical authority for release and deployment…