L2C Readiness & Deployment Lead

L2C Readiness & Deployment Lead

This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work.

We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today's complex world.

Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what's next.

We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here.

We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs.

We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you.

Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

SUMMARY
Ensures the organization is prepared to operate the future-state L2C model at each release.

Aligns process changes, role impacts, deployment timing, and operational safeguards so go-lives are deliberate, controlled, and supported by the business.

Owns release deployment planning and execution across L2C.

Partners closely with Pillar Leads, the Chief Architect, and Program Manager to ensure every release moves through final readiness checks, cutover preparation, activation, and hypercare transition with flawless cross-pillar coordination.

Reports into the L2C Management Office (LMO).

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Enterprise Readiness Framing: Define what "ready" means for each release; including role clarity, operational controls, training completion, and support structures - and ensure criteria are measurable and enforced.
Release & Deployment Orchestration: Coordinate deployment sequencing across pillars to minimize disruption and manage business capacity constraints.
Cutover Planning and Execution: Own cutover runbooks, timing, checkpoints, and resource assignment/allocation.
Operational Continuity Safeguards: Identify where process or system changes create risk to revenue, customer experience, or compliance; ensure mitigation and fallback plans are in place prior to go-live.
User Validation & Sign-Off Discipline: Oversee business participation in UAT; ensure entry/exit criteria are upheld and that acceptance reflects operational reality.
Stabilization & Early-Life Support: Shape and monitor hypercare approach, including issue triage, ownership clarity, and escalation pathways.
Leadership Transparency: Provide fact-based visibility to readiness gaps, adoption risk, and stabilization trends to enable informed go/no-go decisions.
External and Internal Comms: Orchestrate communications strategy for internal (e.g., sales, business, IT) and external (e.g.

customers, partners) stakeholders

SKILLS REQUIRED
Experience leading business-side deployment and stabilization in complex transformations
Strong understanding of front-office and back-office operational dependencies
Ability to ...