Change and Release Manager

**Choosing Capgemini means choosing a company where you will be empowered to shape your career in the way you’d like, where you’ll be supported and inspired by a collaborative community of colleagues around the world, and where you’ll be able to reimagine what’s possible. Join us and help the world’s leading organizations unlock the value of technology and build a more sustainable, more inclusive world.**

**Job Description**:
**As a Change and Release Manager, you are responsible to lead and govern release activities across a complex, multi-vendor landscape. This role is critical to ensuring structured, risk-aware delivery aligned with business priorities and transformation goals.**

**Roles & Responsibilities**
- **Define and enforce standardized release governance policies across all suppliers and delivery teams**:

- **Coordinate cross-supplier release planning, ensuring alignment with business objectives and avoiding scheduling conflicts**:

- **Review and approve release plans, validating readiness criteria and risk mitigation strategies**:

- **Oversee release execution, including deployment orchestration, validation checkpoints, and rollback procedures**:

- **Conduct post-release reviews, capturing lessons learned and driving continuous improvement**:

- **Maintain a centralized release calendar, ensuring visibility and transparency across stakeholders and leadership**:

- **Engage with cross-functional teams, including engineering, operations, and business units, to ensure seamless release cycles**:

- **Champion in release best practices, embedding Agile, SAFe, and governance frameworks into delivery workflows**

**Job Description - Grade Specific**:
**Required Skills & Experience**
- **10+ years of experience in engineering, program delivery, and multi-vendor coordination**:

- **Proven expertise in Agile, SAFe, PRINCE2, and risk-based delivery planning**:

- **Strong background in release governance, digital transformation, and enterprise-scale delivery**:

- **Exceptional stakeholder engagement and cross-functional collaboration capabilities**:

- **Proficiency in release management tools, centralized scheduling platforms, and deployment automation**:

- **Ability to lead structured release cycles in high-stakes, regulated environments**:

- **Strong analytical mindset with a focus on continuous improvement and process optimization**

**What you’ll love about working here**:

- **You will be a part of a diverse collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. You will love the exposure to the scale of transformation, the depth of expertise, and the opportunities for growth.**
- **We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. We embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people.**
- **At the heart of our mission is your career growth. You will have countless learning and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications crafted to support you in exploring a world of opportunities.**:

- **We realise a Total Reward package should be more than just compensation. We offer a range of core and flexible benefits and have a Peer Recognition Portal called ‘Celebrate’.**

**Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem.