SAP Release Engineer

Job Title: SAP Release Engineer

Location: Plano, TX/onsite

Position Type: Full time/Permanent role

Experience: Minimum 10 years

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

Required Experience

•              8+ years of SAP experience with at least 3+ years in Release Management or Deployment Management.

•              Hands-on experience in SAP S/4HANA Finance (FI/CO), including GL, AP, AR, Asset Accounting, Treasury, and Financial Closing processes.

•              Experience managing SAP transport landscapes and release cycles in large enterprise environments.

•              Strong understanding of Change Management, ITIL processes, and CAB governance.

Key Responsibilities

•              Manage end-to-end SAP S/4HANA Finance release planning, scheduling, deployment, and post-release support.

•              Coordinate release activities across SAP Finance, Basis, Security, Middleware, Integration, and Infrastructure teams.

•              Oversee SAP transport management and ensure proper sequencing of transports across Development, QA, UAT, and Production environments.

•              Validate release readiness, deployment plans, rollback procedures, and cutover activities.

•              Collaborate with Finance business users and functional teams to prioritize and deploy enhancements, fixes, and compliance-related changes.

•              Facilitate release governance meetings, CAB reviews, and stakeholder communications.

•              Identify release risks and implement mitigation strategies to minimize business disruption.

•              Coordinate UAT execution, defect triage, and production deployment sign-offs.

•              Monitor post-production performance and ensure timely resolution of release-related issues.

•              Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end financial close activities during release windows.

Required Technical Skills

•              SAP S/4HANA Finance (FI/CO)

•              SAP Transport Management System (TMS)

•              ChaRM (Change Request Management) / Solution Manager

•              SAP Fiori and Launchpad deployments

•              SAP Transport and Release Lifecycle Management

•              SAP Basis fundamentals

•              Integration monitoring (SAP CPI/PO/PI)

•              Jira, ServiceNow, Azure DevOps, or equivalent tools

•              ITIL Change and Release Management processes