Deployment Manager – Enterprise IT

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Deployment Manager to lead end‑to‑end system and application deployments within a leading enterprise in Riyadh. The role sits at the crossroads of change management, testing governance and production operations, ensuring every change is validated, compliant and stable before acceptance.

Key responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate and execute deployments across development, testing, UAT and production, managing dependencies, risks, approvals and rollback plans.
• Own change testing and validation, confirming functional, integration, regression and business acceptance criteria are met and securing production‑readiness sign‑offs.
• Monitor post‑deployment stability, define validation criteria, track system behavior and formally close the stability period once the solution operates correctly.
• Continuously monitor deployed systems for deviations from approved procedures and escalate potential policy, control or regulatory breaches.
• Lead post‑deployment reviews, manage risks and issues across technical, business, security and vendor teams, and maintain governance records and regular status reporting.

Required profile

• 8+ years of experience in enterprise IT, covering system deployments, release and change management, and production support.
• Strong background in software testing methodologies (functional, integration, regression, UAT).
• Proven ability to manage production‑readiness processes, documentation, approvals and stakeholder coordination.
• Experience working within risk‑heavy, audit, compliance or regulatory environments.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder‑management skills across technical, business and vendor teams.

Required skills

• Production Support
• Audit Compliance
• Regulatory Frameworks
• ITSM frameworks (ITIL)
• System Deployments
• Release Management
• UAT
• Change Management