Change Manager

Responsibilities:

• Own RFC review, validation, lifecycle tracking, and readiness checks.
• Classify and route standard, normal, emergency, and release-related changes by impact, risk, urgency, and compliance need.
• Prioritize changes and releases by business impact, service stability, risk, dependency, and readiness.
• Govern transition from build or development teams into production operations.
• Chair CAB, Emergency CAB, and release governance forums with clear decisions, approvals, and actions.
• Assess business, technical, security, compliance, operational, and customer-facing risks before approval.
• Approve, reject, defer, or escalate RFCs based on risk, readiness, justification, and policy compliance.
• Coordinate build, test, approval, implementation, validation, and closure activities.
• What you need to bring:
• Education and Experience Required:
• First Level University degree: a) technical, b) non-technical (i.e., Bachelor of Arts/ Science). Typically 3-4 year completion beyond High School level, BA/BS or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years experience in relevant technologies and customer environments.
• Relevant industry qualification where applicable.
• Knowledge and Skills:
• Resolve or escalate conflicts on priority, timing, risk, approvals, or customer expectations.
• Govern the Forward Schedule of Change and release calendar, including windows, dependencies, and blackout periods.
• Conduct PIRs for failed, emergency, high-risk, or critical changes and drive corrective actions.
• Own Change and Release documentation, templates, approval matrices, CAB guidelines, and audit evidence standards.
• Perform quality checks on records, risk assessments, plans, approvals, evidence, and closure notes.
• Manage subprocesses including emergency change, standard change, release readiness, CAB effectiveness, and reporting.
• Create and improve standards, controls, KPIs, quality gates, exception rules, and governance checkpoints.
• Design and validate dashboards for CSR, ECR, failed changes, release adherence, backlog, SLA impact, and compliance.
• Create procedures, work instructions, knowledge articles, and training material; guide stakeholders as needed.
• Coach service groups to create, correct, and mature change, release, and support records.
• Analyze trends and drive measurable improvements for delays, failures, emergency changes, and release exceptions.
• Confirm production readiness, quality, security, compliance, approvals, and operational support before deployment.
• Own and improve Release Management policies aligned with Change, Configuration, Incident, Problem, and customer governance.
• Define release procedures for planning, readiness, deployment, acceptance, communication, rollback, validation, and closure.
• Plan acceptance activities for software, hardware, infrastructure, and Configuration Items.
• Coordinate release plans, schedules, dependencies, risks, issues, actions, and execution alignment.
• Design, govern, and periodically review standard change procedures for recurring low-risk activities.
• Communicate release plans, risks, impacts, approvals, outcomes, and expectations to all stakeholder levels.
• Accessibility
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• What We Can Offer You:
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