Release & Delivery Manager

• Plan, coordinate and track software implementation and deployment activities across heterogeneous technologies (ABAP, Middleware, Mainframe, job‑scheduling tools), including scope, timelines, effort, and deliverables
• Maintain and prepare project documentation, status reports, meeting materials, and action items; ensure alignment across internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Monitor progress, resources, risks, and dependencies; manage scope changes and escalate issues or blockers to the project lead.
• Ensure regulatory, compliance, and security requirements are met; adapt customer‑specific IT processes from the financial sector for the development team.
• Support testing, UAT, deployment activities, and handover to BAU teams; contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and lessons learned.

Requirements:
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, IT, Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of proven project management experience in complex delivery and release projects within the financial services industry, ideally in large-scale or regulated environments
• Experience with coordinating software development activities, preferably across diverse technologies (ABAP, native HANA, Middleware, Mainframe, job-scheduling software, etc.).
• Understanding of banking processes, regulatory frameworks, and customer-specific IT processes, with the ability to adapt them for project implementation teams.
• Strong communication, documentation, and organizational skills; ability to manage priorities and work in fast-paced environments.
• Proficiency in German and English, and familiarity with collaboration and project tools such as Jira, Confluence, MS Teams, Sharepoint, MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.
• Knowledge of SAP Transport Management (TMS) and Solution Manager (ChaRM) are a plus.

Benefits:
You will have the opportunity to collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry on an incredibly ambitious project to shape the ever-evolving financial sector. This is an environment where you can have it all - the agility, enthusiasm and dynamism of a start-up, combined with the established expertise, solid market presence and extensive customer network of a more established organisation.

At SAP Fioneer, you will benefit from a flexible work environment that encourages creativity and encourages you to think outside the box, bring new ideas to the table, and challenge the status quo. You will become part of a diverse and global team that we are proud of and are constantly growing and reinventing. As an employee, you will have the chance to chart your own career path and take advantage of competitive compensation packages and progression opportunities based on merit.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes occupational pension provisions, support for health and wellbeing, various mobility options like bike leasing and transportation allowances, as well as additional perks such as celebration rewards, meal programs, jubilee recognition, and relocation reimbursement.