Chief Release Manager

Boeing

Chief Release Manager orchestrating end-to-end SAP releases at Boeing. Leading cross-functional teams to ensure timely, high-quality releases for complex enterprise programs.

Posted 5/31/2026full-timeSeattle • Texas, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $159,300 - $194,700 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serve as the central hub connecting functional workstreams, technical teams, Basis operations, and business stakeholders to ensure every release wave lands on time, within scope, and at the quality bar the business demands.
Define and govern the release calendar, manage change & release strategies, coordinate transport management, and drive continuous improvement across the release lifecycle.
Own the SAP system migration strategy — defining configuration and governance of transport landscape from Development, QA, Pre-Production, and Production environments.
Manage wave-level interdependencies, critical path analysis, and schedule risk mitigation.
Establish and enforce release gates, entry/exit criteria, and quality checkpoints across all waves.
Maintain the release register, change log, and decision log; produce executive dashboards and release status reports.

Requirements

What you’ll need

1+ year of leadership experience (team leader, temp manager, large scale cross functional project/program management, or formal manager experience)
10+ years of leading delivery of SAP solution development efforts including functional and technical solutions
5+ years in SAP release management and/or test automation?
3+ years orchestrating wave-based SAP releases on large-scale, global implementations (ECC, S/4HANA, or hybrid landscapes)
3+ years of experience with SAP activate methodology.
3+ years with change/transport tooling: SAP CTS+, SAP Solution Manager (ChaRM / Focused Build), SAP Cloud ALM, Active Control or Rev-Trac
3+ years experience with SAP Basis — system landscape design, transport management (CTS/ChaRM), client strategy, system administration, and performance concepts
3+ years experience with SAP development practices (Fiori, ABAP) : object types, transport categories, code freeze disciplines, and regression risk assessment
3+ years of hands-on experience with any of the following SAP skills - Change & Release Manager, SAP Basis, Developer or in FI, SD, MM, PP, GTS, EH&S, CFIN, GPD, PS, EWM, Manhattan Associate AATP.
3+ years of experience with creating engineering release plans and releasing engineering.
Must have excellent written and verbal skills to communicate pertinent details regarding major incidents to executives, product, and technical teams.
Must be willing to travel up to 25%.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Flexible spending accounts
Health savings accounts
Retirement savings plans
Life and disability insurance programs
Time away from work programs

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Hard Skills & Tools

SAP solution developmentSAP release managementtest automationSAP activate methodologychange/transport toolingSAP CTS+SAP Solution ManagerSAP Cloud ALMSAP BasisSAP development practices

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationproject managementrisk mitigationcontinuous improvementstakeholder managementschedule managementquality assuranceexecutive reportingteam collaboration