Cutover Manager

Cutover & Release Manager

4 month contract

Inside IR35

Hybrid

Description

The Cutover and Release Manager should be highly

experienced and detail-oriented to lead and coordinate the release management

life cycle across complex enterprise environments and managed releases and

interdependencies across the BAU Landscape and the project landscape. Alongside

release management, they should have experience of Cutover and Go live

experience in Oracle EBS/Fusion environments. The ideal candidate will bring

over 8 years of experience in Agile release management, environment

coordination, Cutover/Go live experience and deep expertise in Oracle R12 or

Oracle E-business Suite (EBS). This role is pivotal in ensuring seamless

delivery of software releases, maintaining environment integrity, and driving

continuous improvement across release processes.

You will work closely with technology squads to define the releases and manage

environments maintaining which release is deployed in which environment.

Your success will be measured by clarity of Release plans, of the technical components

of this project.

Release Planning & Coordination

• Own the end-to-end release life cycle across multiple Agile teams and Project Phases
• Define and manage release schedules, scope, and milestones in collaboration with stakeholders
• Ensure alignment between development, QA, and operations teams for smooth deployments

Environment Management

• Oversee the provisioning, maintenance, and integrity of development, test, staging, and production environments
• Coordinate environment refreshes and data masking activities in Oracle EBS landscapes
• Troubleshoot environment-related issues and drive resolution with cross-functional teams

Oracle R12/EBS Expertise

• Manage releases and patches within Oracle R12/EBS modules (eg, Financials, SCM, HRMS)
• Collaborate with Oracle support and internal teams for issue resolution and upgrade planning
• Ensure compliance with Oracle best practices and internal governance standards

Agile & DevOps Integration

• Champion Agile release practices, pipelines, sprint-based deployments, and automated testing
• Implement and optimize release automation tools and dashboards
• Facilitate release retrospectives and drive continuous improvement initiatives

Stakeholder Communication

• Act as the primary point of contact for release-related communications
• Provide regular status updates, risk assessments, and post-release reports to leadership
• Manage change control processes and ensure proper documentation
• Cutover and Go-live experience
• Be able to develop detailed day-by-day cutover plans esp. in Oracle EBS/Fusion environments.
• Manage the cutover phase to be executed as per the plan to deploy all components
• Be able to plan Ramp-down and Ramp-up phases as part of Cutover and Go-live phase.

Job Title: Cutover Manager

Location: Bracknell, UK

Job Type: Contract

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