SIAM Release Manager

About the job you’re considering

The SIAM Release Manager is accountable for leading and governing the end-to-end Release Management process across a complex multi-supplier environment. The role is outcome-focused, ensuring that release activities are planned, coordinated, and delivered in alignment with business priorities while minimising risk and disruption to live services. The Release Manager will provide governance across the release lifecycle, drive cross-supplier collaboration, and ensure suppliers meet their release management obligations, performance commitments, and quality standards. Through effective planning, risk management, stakeholder engagement, and continual improvement, the role contributes to improved service quality, enhanced end-user experience, increased operational stability, and the delivery of measurable business value.

Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

Your role

• Own and govern the end-to-end Release Management process across a multi-supplier service environment, ensuring releases are planned, approved, scheduled, and implemented in line with business and service objectives.
• Lead cross-supplier release planning and coordination activities, ensuring dependencies, risks, resource requirements, and deployment schedules are effectively managed.
• Provide oversight of the release lifecycle, ensuring suppliers adhere to agreed release processes, governance controls, quality standards, and service commitments.
• Chair release governance forums and stakeholder meetings, facilitating collaboration, resolving conflicts, and driving accountability for release readiness and successful delivery.
• Manage release-related risks, issues, and escalations, ensuring appropriate mitigation actions are implemented to minimise disruption to live services and business operations.
• Produce release management reporting, performance metrics, and insights, while driving continual improvement initiatives to enhance release quality, service stability, and delivery outcomes across the SIAM ecosystem.

You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini building an inclusive future is part of everyday life and will be part of your working reality. We have built a representative and welcoming environment, for everyone.

Your skills and experience

• Proven experience in Release Management, Service Management, or Service Integration within complex multi-supplier IT environments.
• Strong understanding of SIAM principles, supplier governance, and the coordination of services and releases across multiple suppliers and service towers.
• Demonstrable experience managing complex release schedules, dependencies, risks, and stakeholder engagement to ensure successful delivery outcomes.
• Strong knowledge of ITSM practices, including Release, Change, Incident, Service Level, and Supplier Management, with a solid understanding of ITIL frameworks.
• Experience producing and presenting release governance reporting, performance metrics, and management information to operational teams and senior stakeholders.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence suppliers, facilitate cross-functional collaboration, and drive continual improvement across the SIAM ecosystem.

We are a Disability Confident Employer

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

• Declare they have a disability, and
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Please opt in during the application process.

Your security clearance and pre-employment checks

If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including: identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service)

Some roles will also require an additional level of security clearance:

Security Check (SC) Clearance:

To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance.

To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.

Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.

Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.

Make it real - what does it mean for you?

Flexibility to work your way

You will be encouraged to have a positive work-life balance. Our hybrid-first way of working means we embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.

Your wellbeing

You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions.

To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

Shape your path

You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.

Shared energy

You’ll be bringing your unique skills and perspectives to the team, inspiring and taking inspiration from your teammates as you unlock value in everything you do. You’ll be joining a professional community of experts, who have got your back and will support you, every step of the way.

Why should you consider Capgemini?

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of over 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2025 global revenues of €22.5 billion. Make it real | www.capgemini.com