SC Cleared Release Manager - SAS

Release Manager (Minerva SA Reg Risking)
Clearance Required: SC
Duration: 6 months
Location: Telford with 2 days/week in office
IR35 Status: Mandated PAYE only
Project Overview:

The Preventative Risking (PR) team within RIS is responsible for managing the risking and compliance referral processes for Self-Assessment (SA) registrations.

Currently, the system identifies approximately 200,000 fraudulent registrations out of 1 million, resulting in an estimated £51 million to £219 million in lost SA repayment claims for HMRC (based on 2021/2022 figures).

To address this, a proof of concept (POC) was developed using:

• SAS Enterprise Guide for table creation,
• SAS Studio V and SAS RTENG to build the SA registration network,
• SAS Viya 3.5 tools for risk assessment of new SA registrations.
• The POC leveraged data from 20 different sources, most of which were already housed in the Minerva Oracle database. Previously, some data had to be transferred manually. However, the automated file transfers described in this Solution Design Document (SDD) will now move that data to the SAS platform using approved Enterprise Architecture (EA) integration patterns, with the initial phase, targeted for delivery in April 2026.

This role will form part of the release management team within Minerva Platform to increase the existing capacity to support the additional project work.

Release Manager
Purpose:
The Release Manager will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and overseeing the deployment of software releases across multiple environments. This includes managing release schedules, ensuring configuration integrity, and supporting testing and validation processes. The role demands strong technical expertise in SAS technologies and Oracle, as well as a deep understanding of configuration management and the software testing lifecycle.

Key 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 (clear-text files).
• Support migration activities, particularly from SAS 9.4 to SAS Viya 4, using CI/CD practices and Capgemini accelerators.
• Facilitate release readiness reviews, go/no-go decisions, and post-release retrospectives.
• Ensure traceability and auditability of all release components and decisions.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Technical Skills:
• SAS Enterprise Guide (EG) - experience in job orchestration and user migration support.
• SAS Data Integration (DI) - packaging and deployment of DI jobs using manifest structures.
• SAS Management Console - Used for promotion & Management of code.
• SAS Studio - job development and deployment.
• SAS Viya 3.5/Viya 4 - hands-on experience with modernised SAS platforms and migration strategies.
• SAS Visual Analytics (VA) and SAS Visual Investigator (VI) - familiarity with reporting and investigation tools.
• Oracle - working knowledge of Oracle databases, particularly in data staging and decisioning workflows

Process Knowledge:

• Configuration Management - experience managing artefact groupings, dependencies, and release hierarchies
• Testing Lifecycle - understanding of test strategy, planning, execution, and defect management within release cycles.

Soft Skills:

• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement abilities.
• Methodical and detail-oriented approach to planning and execution.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage competing priorities.

Desirable Qualifications:

• Experience in HMRC or similar public sector environments.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and cloud-hosted platforms (AWS, Azure, SAS PaaS).
• Knowledge of scheduling tools - Airflow
• Exposure to SAS Migration Factory Delivery Models.

The successful candidate will also need to be SC Vetted.