Release Manager

At Capgemini Engineering, the world leader in engineering services, we bring together a global team of engineers, scientists, and architects to help the world’s most innovative companies unleash their potential. From autonomous cars to life-saving robots, our digital and software technology experts think outside the box as they provide unique R&D and engineering services across all industries. Join us for a career full of opportunities. Where you can make a difference. Where no two days are the same.- Your Role
- As a Release Manager, you will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing release activities for the AVEVA platform across multiple manufacturing sites and asset classes. You will ensure smooth deployment of new capabilities, alignment with BAU processes, and effective adoption by end users. Acting as the central point of control, you will manage release readiness, environment coordination, and cross-team communication throughout the Digital Maintenance program.
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You will play a key role in:_
- _ _- Planning and managing all release cycles for the AVEVA platform, including scheduling, scope definition, dependencies, and deployment windows.
- Coordinating with BAU, release, and scaling teams to ensure readiness and seamless transition into operations.
- Managing AVEVA SaaS and on-prem environments, including configuration, access, and release sequencing.
- Overseeing successful deployments to sites, ensuring steps are executed, documented, and validated.
- Supporting user adoption and change readiness by collaborating with change managers, training leads, site SMEs, and functional leads.
- Identifying and managing release risks and issues, escalating as needed to avoid delivery impacts.
- Maintaining release documentation, including runbooks, release notes, and environment mapping.
- Ensuring compliance with client change and release management processes.-
- Your Profile- Education: A bachelor’s degree or tertiary qualification in engineering or a related field.-
- Proven experience as a Release Manager or Environment/Deployment Manager in large-scale digital or OT/IT programs.
- Hands-on experience with AVEVA**products (Asset Information Management, Asset Strategy Optimisation, Advanced Analytics, APM, PI/AVEVA Data Hub, CONNECT, AVEVA cloud/SaaS environments) highly preferred.
- Strong understanding of release governance, change management, CI/CD pipelines, and environment management.
- Experience coordinating across multi-site or enterprise environments, ideally in manufacturing or asset-intensive industries.
- Excellent stakeholder communication skills, including BAU teams, project teams, and site operational users.
- Familiarity with Agile delivery and scaled deployment programs.-
- What you’ll love about working here- ** Experience a Positive Work-Life Balance**: We prioritize your well-being with hybrid and flexible working arrangements, making it easy to balance your personal and professional life.
- **Own your Growth**: Dive into endless learning opportunities with courses from Capgemini University and numerous external certifications. Benefit from digital learning platforms and specialized campuses in AI, Cloud, Data, and Sustainability. Propel your career with our award-winning Career Acceleration programs.
- **Work with Integrity**: Join a company recognized by Ethisphere as one of the World’s most Ethical companies.
- **Collaborate with Industry Leaders**: Gain exposure to top global companies, including 145 of the Fortune 500, through your work with Capgemini.
- **Showcase Your Skills**: Participate in our internal annual global tech challenges and help address world issues.Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem.
- Ref. code
- 371242-en_GB
- Posted on
- 03 Dec 2025
- Experience level
- Experienced Professionals
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Location
- Auckland
- Business unit
- Engineering and RandD Services
- Brand
- Capgemini Engineering
- Professional communities
- Products & Systems Engineering