Salary: £60,000 - 90,000 per year Requirements: Active SC clearance or eligibility for SC clearance Experience with SAS Enterprise Guide (EG) for job orchestration Knowledge of SAS Data Integration (DI) for packaging and deployment Familiarity with SAS Management Console for code promotion Proficiency in SAS Studio for job development Hands-on experience with SAS Viya 3.5 / Viya 4 Understanding of SAS Visual Analytics (VA) and SAS Visual Investigator (VI) Working knowledge of Oracle databases Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills Detail-oriented and methodical approach to planning Ability to work under pressure and manage competing priorities Experience in client or public sector environments (desirable) Familiarity with DevOps practices and cloud-hosted platforms (AWS, Azure, SAS PaaS) (desirable) Knowledge of scheduling tools like Airflow (desirable) Responsibilities: Own and manage the end-to-end release process across development, test, and production environments. Coordinate with development, testing, and operations teams to ensure timely and quality releases. Maintain and enforce configuration management standards using manifest files and structured release artefacts. Oversee packaging and deployment of SAS DI code (SPKs) and Oracle artefacts. Support migration activities from SAS 9.4 to SAS Viya 4 using CI/CD practices. Facilitate release readiness reviews, go/no-go decisions, and post-release retrospectives. Ensure traceability and auditability of all release components and decisions. Technologies: Airflow AWS Azure CI/CD Cloud DevOps Support Oracle PaaS SAS More: We are a project team dedicated to unifying RSDD APIs into a single service that enhances our data processing capabilities. Our goal is to reduce complexity while ensuring reliability across all platforms. This contract position is based in Telford with a hybrid work model, allowing for two days onsite each week. We are looking for a skilled Release Manager to join our release management team, helping to support our expanding project workload and drive efficiencies through streamlined processes. last updated 12 week of 2026