.AstraZeneca is a global, innovation-driven biopharmaceutical business that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialization of prescription medicines for some of the world's most serious diseases. AstraZeneca is one of only a handful of pure-play biopharmaceutical companies to span the entire value chain of a medicine from discovery, early- and late-stage development to manufacturing and distribution, and the global commercialization of primary care, specialty care-led and specialty care medicines that transform lives. At AstraZeneca, we're proud to have an extraordinary workplace culture that drives innovation and teamwork. Here, we encourage our teams to express diverse perspectives - making you feel valued, energized and rewarded for your ideas and creativity.AstraZeneca is currently looking for a Release Manager to join our R&D IT Solution Delivery Team to manage delivery excellence for SaaS Saama product, part of Operational Clinical Development Platform and is used across late science teams across all therapeutic areas. You will be a part of our core BizDevOps team therefore will be responsible to work cross functionally with other team members such as Platform Lead, Product Analyst, Business Analysts, DevOps Engineers and key stakeholders such as BRM, Product Owners and Quality Managers.**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**:- Ownership of end-to-end Release Management in SaaS Saama product. This encompasses enablement and ownership of processes, tooling, engineering standards, value stream, artefacts and metrics.- Proactive identification of optimizations and improvements of processes ensuring delivery excellence, maximising productivity both in functional and integration components of the product. Application of Capability best-practice stemming from the Solution Delivery Release Team.- Report on process compliance, KPI's and any process performance trends.- Release Scheduling across Scrum Teams and Platform Modules.- Providing Release Notes to the appropriate stakeholders and ensuring releases are planned well and executed efficiently, including regular study configuration releases.- Change & Configuration Management compliance across GxP environment.- Release Capacity management and forecasting with the delivery team, based on a consolidated backlog.- Leadership in SAFe ceremonies such as PI Planning, Platform SCRUM, Sprint Plannings. Run Change Control Board to ensure the establish release and configuration management process is followed to prioritize Change requests, Defects, BAU fix changes as part of ongoing release or the Product backlog.- Manage deployment planning, implementations and optimize JIRA workflows.- Identify and Implement opportunities for automation uplift, including embedding CI/CD tooling, automation testing, and practices.- Leadership and Coordination of Delivery and Business Teams in order to complete the Sprint goals