Environment & Release Lead

Remote in Romania

Introduction & Summary

We are seeking an experienced Environment & Release Lead to take ownership of the full environment lifecycle across a major European ERP and Dynamics Transformation Programme. The ideal candidate will possess a strong track record in environment management and hands-on experience with complex environments involving Oracle and Microsoft Dynamics.

Main Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end environment strategy across development, testing, SIT, UAT, training, pre-production, and production.

• Maintain the environment inventory and calendar across Oracle, Dynamics, and all linked systems.

• Coordinate environment setup with infrastructure, cloud, network, security, and supplier teams.

• Own the integrated release plan and release calendar across the platform landscape.

• Lead release readiness reviews, deployment sequencing, rollback, and post-release reviews.

• Control the promotion of code and configuration across environments, including production.

• Own the approach for test data, environment refreshes, and baseline data setup.

• Maintain operational oversight of integrations, batch jobs, APIs, and interfaces across environments.

• Coordinate dress rehearsals, cutover, go-live, and hypercare.

• Define and embed the ongoing service management model for live and non-production environments.

• Own environment access governance and ensure audit, security, and compliance requirements are met.

• Provide a single view of environment status, release status, and production readiness.

Key Requirements

• Strong track record in environment management on large, multi-workstream transformation programmes.

• Hands-on experience across complex environment landscapes involving Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, and linked enterprise platforms.

• Strong release planning and release management experience across shared environments and cross-system dependencies.

• Solid experience of production readiness, cutover, first-live deployment, and early life support.

• Good understanding of supporting infrastructure – identity, connectivity, certificates, middleware, scheduling, and monitoring.

• Experience of test data management and environment refresh cycles.

• Experience setting up steady-state support and service transition for live environments.

• Strong stakeholder management across business, technology, suppliers, and integrators.

Nice to Have

• Experience across Oracle Fusion ERP and HCM.

• Experience across Microsoft Dynamics 365 and related Microsoft platform services.

• Experience with CPQ, reporting platforms, and shared integration services.

• Experience of Azure DevOps or similar release and work-tracking tooling.

• ITIL or similar service management framework experience.

• Experience of pan-European programme delivery.

Other Details

The role is primarily focused on overseeing the successful transition and service management for a European transformation programme within the ERP and Dynamics landscape. Join this challenging opportunity to lead substantial projects and ensure operational readiness across live and non-production environments.