Release Manager

Experis - ManpowerGroup • TRAFFIC • Shropshire, Telford, United Kingdom • 1d ago

Role Title: Release Manager
Duration: 6 Months
Location: Telford Hybrid (2 Days Per week)
Rate: £540 Per Day - Umbrella only
SC Clearance required

Would you like to join a global leader in consulting, technology services and digital transformation?

Our client is at the forefront of innovation to address the entire breadth of opportunities in the evolving world of cloud, digital and platforms.

Role purpose / summary

The Release Manager will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and overseeing the deployment of software releases across multiple environments. This includes managing release schedules, ensuring configuration integrity, and supporting testing and validation processes. The role demands strong technical expertise in SAS technologies and Oracle, as well as a deep understanding of configuration management and the software testing lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities:

Own and manage the end-to-end release process across development, test, and production environments.
Coordinate with development, testing, and operations teams to ensure timely and quality releases.
Maintain and enforce configuration management standards using manifest files and structured release artefacts.
Oversee packaging and deployment of SAS DI code (SPKs) and Oracle artefacts (clear-text files).
Support migration activities, particularly from SAS 9.4 to SAS Viya 4, using CI/CD practices and Capgemini accelerators.
Facilitate release readiness reviews, go/no-go decisions, and post-release retrospectives.
Ensure traceability and auditability of all release components and decisions.
Required Skills & Experience:
Technical Skills:
SAS Enterprise Guide (EG) - experience in job orchestration and user migration support.
SAS Data Integration (DI) - packaging and deployment of DI jobs using manifest structures.
SAS Management Console - Used for promotion & Management of code.
SAS Studio - job development and deployment.
SAS Viya 3.5 / Viya 4 - hands-on experience with modernised SAS platforms and migration strategies.
SAS Visual Analytics (VA) and SAS Visual Investigator (VI) - familiarity with reporting and investigation tools.
Oracle - working knowledge of Oracle databases, particularly in data staging and decisioning workflows

Process Knowledge:
Configuration Management - experience managing artefact groupings, dependencies, and release hierarchies
Testing Lifecycle - understanding of test strategy, planning, execution, and defect management within release cycles.

Soft Skills:
Strong communication and stakeholder engagement abilities.
Methodical and detail-oriented approach to planning and execution.
Ability to work under pressure and manage competing priorities.

Desirable Qualifications:
Familiarity with DevOps practices and cloud-hosted platforms (AWS, Azure, SAS PaaS).
Knowledge of scheduling tools - Airflow
Exposure to SAS Migration Factory Delivery Models.
The successful candidate will also need to be SC Vetted.

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!

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