Environment & Release Lead

🌍Remote work: fully remote.

📑Assignment type: B2B

📕Project language: English.

⏳Project length: > 6 months + possibility of extension.

⏰Start: ASAP / 1 month.

💻Workload: full time.

💼 Industry: security services

Environment & Release Lead:

emagine is looking for an experienced Environment & Release Lead to take ownership of the full environment lifecycle across a major European transformation programme delivering Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics and a number of linked enterprise platforms.

About the assignment:

You will own environment planning, infrastructure coordination, release management, configuration control, production readiness, cutover and service transition across the programme. The role takes the system through to production and defines the ongoing service management model for both live and non-production environments. This is not an application or enterprise architecture role — the focus is squarely on programme and project environment management, supporting infrastructure, release discipline and operational readiness.

Main Responsibilities:

• Own the end-to-end environment strategy across dev, test, SIT, UAT, training, pre-prod 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 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:

This is a critical role requiring proactive engagement and meticulous attention to detail for the successful execution of a complex transformation programme. Candidates must demonstrate a robust understanding of the entire environment lifecycle.