Assistant Manager - IT Change and Release control

🏢 Qiddiya Investment Company
📍 Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaFull-timeOn-site
📅 Posted: 6d ago🔄 Updated: 6d ago
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The Assistant Manager - IT Change and Release Control will be responsible for overseeing and governing the IT change and release management process. Key responsibilities include reviewing and validating change requests, facilitating Change Advisory Board meetings, maintaining the Change & Release Calendar, and coordinating software and infrastructure releases across environments. The role also involves ensuring changes meet readiness criteria, maintaining documentation, monitoring KPIs, conducting Post-Implementation Reviews, and supporting audits. Additionally, the position will support IT Demand Management, including coordinating the demand process, understanding IT service demand, and aligning IT strategy with business goals. Required qualifications include a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field, with 5+ years of experience in IT Change Management, IT Change & Release Management, or IT Service Management. A mandatory ITIL Foundation certification is also required. The ideal candidate will possess excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills, strong organizational and time management abilities, and a solid understanding of IT infrastructure, enterprise applications, cloud environments, Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD pipelines.
Required Skills
Soft Skills & Professional Competencies
CommunicationNegotiationPresentation SkillsTime Management
Information Technology
IT InfrastructureEnterprise ApplicationsCloud ComputingDevOpsCI/CD
Business, Sales & Management
Agile
Engineering, Construction & Trades
Risk Assessment
Requirements
EducationBachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information System or a related field.ExperienceBetween 5+ years of experience in in IT Change Management, IT Change & Release Management, or IT Service Management roles.CertificationsITIL Foundation certification Technical Skills·       Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills ·       Highly organized with excellent time management skillsStrong understanding of IT infrastructure, enterprise applications, and cloud environments.Practical knowledge of Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD pipelines, and how governance integrates with them.Ability to assess technical risks without being execution-level technical
Description
Key ResponsibilitiesChange and Release Control Review, assess, and validate change and release requests to identify potential risks, conflicts, dependencies, and overall business impact.Facilitate and govern Change Advisory Board (CAB) and Emergency Change Advisory Board (ECAB) meetings, ensuring informed decision-making for both changes and releases, with clear accountability and approval outcomes.Own and maintain the  Change & Release Calendar, ensuring alignment between planned changes, release windows, blackout periods, and business-critical events to minimize service disruption.Plan, coordinate, and govern software and infrastructure releases across environments (DEV, SIT, UAT, PROD), ensuring readiness, approvals, and adherence to agreed release windows.Ensure all Changes and releases meet Change and release readiness criteria, including testing evidence, rollback plans, risk assessments, security approvals, and business sign-off prior to production deployment.Maintain accurate and auditable change and release documentation, including requests, approvals, release notes, implementation steps, rollback procedures, and post-release outcomes.Monitor and analyze Change & Release Management KPIs (e.g., change success rate, emergency changes, release failure rate, rollback frequency), identifying trends, risks, and opportunities for continuous improvement.Conduct and govern Post-Implementation Reviews (PIRs) for changes and releases, ensuring lessons learned are captured, corrective actions are tracked, and systemic issues are addressed.Support internal and external audits related to IT Change and Release Management by providing evidence, process compliance, and improvement actions.Work closely with IT operations, development teams, business units, cybersecurity, QA, and third-party vendors to coordinate change and release activities end-to-end.Provide clear, timely communication on change and release status, risks, dependencies, and impact assessments to all relevant stakeholders, including management and business owners.Enforce adherence to Change & Release Management policies, standards, and governance frameworks, ensuring alignment with ITIL best practices and organizational controls.      IT Demand Management: 1.      overseeing and coordinating the demand management process.2.      works with business relationship managers, service portfolio managers, service level managers, and other stakeholders to understand the current and future demand for IT services, 3.      plan and implement appropriate strategies to manage and influence the demand.4.      identifies and resolves any issues or risks that may affect the service delivery5.      Aligning IT strategy with business strategy and goals for long term planning Delegating authority to teams 6.      communicating and updating the process owning and configuring the tools or templates to support the process. 7.      7-ensuring that the process runs smoothly8.      9- facilitate the demand management meetings and events 9.      9-work with the requestors to prepare the deliverables needed 10. 10-capture the dispositions of the demand items and ensure they move into their next phase based on those outcomes 
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