Enterprise Business Systems Release Management Lead

Boeing•Seattle, WA

About The Position

The Boeing Company is looking for an Enterprise Business Systems Release Management Lead to join the team in Seattle, WA; Arlington, VA; Dallas, TX; Hazelwood, MO; Berkeley, MO; Kent, WA; Mesa, AZ; Miami, FL; or Ridley Park, PA. The Boeing Company is seeking an experienced specialist to act as the chief orchestrator of our enterprise technology landscape. This high-visibility, executive-facing role will translate our five-year technology roadmap into a detailed, value-focused two-year quarterly release schedule. The selected candidate will serve as the central coordinator across all Enterprise Business Systems (ERP), Supply Chain, Human Resources (HR), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Finance, Legal, Communications, and other functions, ensuring every technological deployment is strategically aligned and delivers measurable business value. Strong stakeholder management skills and deep technical expertise is required, especially in the SAP ecosystem.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in IT Architecture and Development
5+ years of experience in SAP release management and/or test automation
5+ years of experience developing strategic technology roadmaps or plans
5+ years of experience in Executive Presentation experience at the VP level or above
5+ years of experience working on a SAP platform
5+ years of experience with agile project/program and software product release management
5+ years of experience with CI/CD and configuration management with release processes

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work or military experience
Certifications such as Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Release Train Engineer, Project Management Professional (PMP)
Experience with collaboration between business and Information Technology
Experience with Business Change Management approaches and driving adoption at scale
Experience operating in a high-visibility, fast-moving enterprise environment with multiple critical interdependencies
Experience managing complex cross-functional dependencies across Security, Infrastructure, Data, Manufacturing, and Business Operations
Experience translating technical releases to measurable business outcomes and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)
Experience with Software as a Service (SaaS) application such as Workday, Ariba, Concur, Salesforce
Experience with translating long-term strategy into executable plans
Experience with risk management, release gating, and readiness reviews
Experience with stakeholder management, facilitation, and negotiation

Responsibilities

Define, own, and publish the Enterprise Business Systems (EBS) release calendar, linking multi-year strategy to tactical quarterly deployment
Convert the 5-year roadmap into a prioritized, executable 2-year quarterly release plan and maintain an 18-month lookahead (published each December and updated quarterly)
Ensure a predictable quarterly cadence for major enterprise deployments and an agile approach for incremental value delivery
Work directly with functional Vice Presidents and Product Managers to manage cross-functional dependencies, assess risks, and drive release readiness
Lead the organization in measuring and communicating the business value and Return on Investments (ROI) of releases, not just the technical functionality deployed
Ensure releases optimize for minimal customization, data integrity, security and compliance, and enable enterprise integration
Ensure release of readiness gates, quality standards, testing strategies, and security signoffs are enforced
Coordinate rollback and contingency plans to preserve business continuity
Manage release processes, tooling, and telemetry (release metrics, value delivery, defect trends, deployment timeframes)
Coordinate with strategic systems integrators and platform providers to accelerate delivery and scale capabilities
Provide a critical technical and functional lens, ensuring seamless and safe releases across complex SAP (e.g., S/4HANA) and Supply Chain applications
Support EBS Leadership Team, driving governance and continuous improvement of the Enterprise Release Management function