About us
Hexagon is a general leader in digital reality solutions, combining sensor, software and autonomous technologies. We put data to work to drive efficiency, productivity and quality across industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, public safety and mobility applications.
Our solutions enable customers to capture, analyze and leverage data from the physical world to create smarter, more connected and increasingly autonomous ecosystems that support a scalable and sustainable future.
Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence business area delivers solutions that leverage data from design and engineering through production and metrology to help manufacturers make smarter, data-driven decisions and improve performance across the product lifecycle.
About the role
The IT Technical Release Manager is responsible for the planning, coordination, and execution of software releases across complex, multi-application environments. Acting as a key bridge between Development, Quality Assurance, and Operations, this role ensures releases are delivered safely, securely, and on time, with full operational readiness.
The Release Manager owns the end‑to‑end release lifecycle, ensuring compliance with governance and change processes while minimising risk and business disruption, particularly in large transformation and SAP S/4HANA environments.
Key Responsibilities
Release Planning & Coordination
Own end‑to‑end release planning and scheduling across multiple applications, platforms, and environments (Dev, Test, UAT, Pre‑Prod, Prod).
Develop and maintain the enterprise release calendar, managing dependencies, blackout periods, and approved change windows.
Facilitate release readiness reviews, ensuring scope, risks, approvals, deployment and rollback plans are clearly defined.
Coordinate release activities across Development, QA, Infrastructure, Security, and Operations teams.
Execution & Deployment Management
Lead and oversee release execution, ensuring deployments complete successfully within approved timelines.
Ensure releases meet technical, quality, security, and operational readiness criteria prior to production deployment.
Manage cutover activities, including data migrations, configuration changes, and validation steps.
Act as the primary point of contact during release windows, managing incidents, escalations, and go/no‑go decisions.
Governance, Risk & Control
Ensure releases comply with change management processes, internal controls, and audit requirements.
Validate that all required approvals, documentation, and testing evidence are in place prior to deployment.
Identify, assess, and manage release risks and dependencies, defining mitigation and contingency plans.
Maintain end‑to‑end traceability across features, defects, change requests, and deployed releases.
Quality & Stability
Partner closely with QA teams to confirm test completion, defect thresholds, and release readiness criteria.
Ensure rollback, contingency, and post‑deployment validation plans are defined and tested.
Monitor post‑release stability and coordinate rapid resolution of deployment‑related issues.
Communication & Stakeholder Management
Provide clear and timely communication to technical and business stakeholders on release scope, schedules, risks, and outcomes.
Produce and distribute release notes and deployment communications.
Chair release governance forums, readiness checkpoints, and post‑implementation reviews.
Collaborate with Product Owners, Project Managers, and Service Managers to align release activity with business priorities.
Continuous Improvement
Drive continuous improvement of release processes, tooling, and automation to increase reliability and predictability.
Analyse release metrics (success rates, failures, rollbacks) and implement corrective actions.
Support the adoption of DevOps and CI/CD practices, while maintaining appropriate governance and controls.
Qualifications
SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE)
SAP Certified Associate – SAP Activate Project Manager
ITIL Foundation or Specialist
PMP or PRINCE2 (advantage)
Experience
8–10 years of experience in IT Release and Change Management
1–3 years of SAP S/4HANA Release Management experience
Hands‑on experience with SAP Transport Management / Solution Manager
Proven experience delivering releases in large transformation programmes, including SAP S/4HANA (Public Cloud preferred)