SAP Transport and Release manager -CICD-SOLMAN,ALM

Overview

Lead end-to-end SAP Release and Transport Management across the SAP landscape, coordinating deployments through development, test, QA, pre-production and production, and guiding account teams on best practices from survey through steady-state operations.

What you'll do

• Manage and coordinate end-to-end SAP Release and Transport Management activities across the SAP landscape, ensuring smooth deployments through development, test, QA, pre-production, and production environments.
• Plan and maintain release calendars, deployment schedules, transport sequencing, dependencies, and deployment readiness, ensuring all prerequisites are completed before production releases.
• Coordinate closely with SAP Application Teams, SAP Basis/Platform Operations, Infrastructure Teams, and other stakeholders to execute releases and resolve deployment dependencies.
• Ensure compliance with established Change and Release Management processes, maintaining complete traceability between change requests, approvals, transport activities, release documentation, and production deployments.
• Utilize and manage release activities through SAP Cloud ALM (CALM), SAP Solution Manager, ChaRM, Rev-Trac, and ServiceNow, ensuring effective governance and operational control.
• Validate technical readiness, deployment plans, rollback procedures, and operational prerequisites while monitoring release execution during production deployment windows.
• Lead the identification, escalation, and resolution of transport, deployment, and post-release issues, while supporting stabilization and post-implementation verification activities.
• Maintain release reporting, risk tracking, stakeholder communications, and CAB governance participation, while driving continuous improvement, process automation, and operational efficiency within SAP Release Management practices.
• Work closely with Delivery Project Executives and account teams to determine resource allocation, select the right tools, define procedures, and establish security, privacy, and quality policies.
• Evaluate risks and set delivery times and conditions across a spectrum of scenarios, including major critical situation management.
• Define Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and penalties together with account teams.
• Bridge the gap between support teams and customers, facilitating project and problem resolution.
• Size the right number of resources to fulfil commitments made in signed contracts.
• Validate Service Delivery Plans, overseeing parts planning, education, service documentation, and preparation of all support kits.
• Collect regional and geographic needs, including national language-specific requests.

What you'll need

• 8+ years of experience in SAP Release Management, SAP Change Management, SAP Basis, or SAP Platform Operations.
• Strong experience with SAP Transport Management and release coordination.
• Experience managing releases across complex SAP landscapes and multiple environments.
• Strong understanding of SAP change, transport, and deployment lifecycle.
• Experience coordinating SAP Basis, application, infrastructure, and project teams.
• Experience with Change and Release Management processes in enterprise environments.
• Experience working in complex, multi-team and multi-vendor environments.
• Strong understanding of production readiness, rollback, deployment risk, and operational controls.

Nice to have

• SAP Cloud ALM.
• SAP Solution Manager.
• SAP ChaRM.
• Rev-Trac.
• ServiceNow.
• SAP Transport Management.
• ITIL Change Enablement and Release Management.
• SAP Platform Operations / SAP Basis knowledge.
• Release planning and dependency management.
• Strong understanding of auditability and change traceability.
• Knowledge of DevOps and continuous delivery principles in SAP environments.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
• Dynamic, hybrid-friendly culture.