Job Specifications
Work Location:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hours:
37.5
Line Of Business:
Technology Solutions
Pay Details:
$81,600 - $115,200 CAD
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Job Description:
We are looking for a Release Lead to join the Enterprise Release Management team. The role will enable future product/service development, scalability, and innovation. As the lead Release Lead, you will partner with technology and business teams, as well as vendor to create and manage the end-to-end release plan, and deployment schedule with focus on efficiency, reliability, collision avoidance, and availability of existing environments and services, while supporting delivery teams in meeting their objectives and timelines. You will also define and implement practices for cross-team alignment, collision avoidance, release dependency management, and risk mitigation; and contribute to planning, design, operationalization, and readiness deliverables in compliance with enterprise and industry standards.
At TD, we hope you'll be inspired both by the work we do and the people who make it all happen. There's room to grow in all of it.
Job Description
About This Role
Specifically, the role will require strong aptitude in the following areas:
Creating and managing end-to-end release plans for scheduling, planning, and controlling the release and deployment process
Integrating release management practices into delivery process with objective of offering reliable, repeatable IT services, at appropriate service levels
Ability to convert the technical expertise to recommendations pertaining to efficiency, reliability, scalability, and security; drive best practices, and engage with planning, evaluating, operationalizing and reporting deliverables. Successful candidate must be able to show they are ready to think and act as an owner, and drive consensus and decisions among stakeholder in pursuit of technical integrity
Establishing infrastructure for tracking and monitoring all relevant updates and changes, and efficiently converting the information into reporting, recommendations, schedules and decisions
Providing trusted and reliable communication and reporting with confidence that all information is comprehensive, accurate, and confirmed
Managing correspondence with clear articulation of impacts
Providing subject matter expert guidance and advice to Release and Deployment management, as well as other IT Support segments, and participating in development of remediation and collision avoidance strategies
Identifying and educating on control and communication failures to help prevent issues going forward
Providing updates to senior leadership on accomplishments and opportunities, as well as insights on organizational trends anchored in unique perspective of the role
Protecting the interests of organization through identification, management and escalation of risks and dependencies
Being proficient with IT workflow and collaboration tools, such as Service Now, JIRA and Confluence. Be able to independently create and manage work items in the tools as required
Being professionally familiar with Agile, Waterfall and hybrid delivery models to understand and align with multiple teams working in different paradigms
Understanding of the DevOps and continuous delivery principles and practices
Job Requirements
What can you bring to TD? Share your credentials, but your relevant experience and knowledge can be just as likely to get our attention. It helps if you have:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field a bonus
5+ years of previous release, ITS or IT project management experience, (Formal training and solid understanding of project management principles preferred)
6-8 years of experience in information systems operations environment in service management, systems analysis or development
Advanced knowledge of software development (SAFe, Agile, etc.) and service management lifecycles (ITSM)
Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional work teams toward task completion
Demonstrated effective leadership and analytical skills
Well-developed executive communication skills (both written and verbal)
Highly proficient in development of resolutions, plans and strategies for operational advancement.
Sound management techniques, experience in problem resoluti