Release Manager

Job Title: Release Manager (Minerva SA Reg Risking)
Max Rate: £550 via Umbrella
Clearance Required: SC
Duration: 6 months
Location: Typically, Telford with 2 days/week in office

This role will form part of the release management team within Minerva Platform to increase the existing capacity to support the additional project work.
Release Manager

The Release Manager will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and overseeing the deployment of software releases across multiple environments. This includes managing release schedules, ensuring configuration integrity, and supporting testing and validation processes. The role demands strong technical expertise in SAS technologies and Oracle, as well as a deep understanding of configuration management and the software testing life cycle.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own and manage the end-to-end release process across development, test, and production environments.
• Coordinate with development, testing, and operations teams to ensure timely and quality releases.
• Maintain and enforce configuration management standards using manifest files and structured release artefacts.
• Oversee packaging and deployment of SAS DI code (SPKs) and Oracle artefacts (clear-text files).
• Support migration activities, particularly from SAS 9.4 to SAS Viya 4, using CI/CD practices and Capgemini accelerators.
• Facilitate release readiness reviews, go/no-go decisions, and post-release retrospectives.
• Ensure traceability and auditability of all release components and decisions.

Required Skills & Experience:

SAS Enterprise Guide (EG) - experience in job orchestration and user migration support.
SAS Data Integration (DI) - packaging and deployment of DI jobs using manifest structures