HR System - Release Manager
Core
Establish and strengthen release management for HR systems (Dayforce) and coordinate end-to-end release planning, governance, testing, and deployment to ensure safe delivery with minimal business disruption.
Role type
Senior Release Manager (HR Systems)
Builds
Integrated release calendar, deployment pipelines, and governance frameworks for HR technology.
Domain
HR Technology / Enterprise Systems
Required skills
Release management, end-to-end release coordination, risk assessment, stakeholder engagement, change management, incident triage, process improvement, Microsoft Office, service management tools.
Preferred skills
Dayforce or Optima experience, ITIL, Agile, DevOps, SDLC practices.
Responsibilities
Establish and maintain an integrated release calendar; Coordinate end-to-end release planning, including scope, sequencing, dependencies, milestones, approvals and deployment arrangements; Assess release readiness, identify risks and manage issues relating to testing, defects, data, operational impacts and business preparedness; Provide clear release communications, status reporting and visibility of decisions, risks and dependencies; Coordinate deployment activities, go/no-go decisions, post-release support, incident triage and lessons learned; Maintain release controls, records and governance to support auditability, compliance and reliable change delivery; Analyse release performance and implement improvements to processes, tools and ways of working.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC