Senior ELM - Developer Productivity

Role overview

Engineering strategy and delivery

• Elevate Developer Experience and Release Engineering into mature, industry-leading practices.
• Architect deterministic and agent-evaluated gates across Define, Build, Verify, Release, and Operate stages.
• Design policy-as-code enforcement, contract testing, mutation scoring, and SLO-driven progressive delivery with error budgets and automated rollbacks.
• Partner with engineering leaders to plan the gated SDLC roadmap and integrate with Test Engineering and Application Services.
• Assess current practices, tooling, and workflows; identify friction and translate findings into prioritized plans.

Operational excellence

• Own planning, execution, and delivery outcomes for Developer Experience and Release Engineering.
• Apply governance, standards, and policy-as-code to centralize tooling, pipelines, and enablement.
• Use delivery metrics such as change failure rate, lead time, deployment frequency, and MTTR to evaluate effectiveness and drive improvement.
• Manage delivery and release risks and cross-team dependencies.

People leadership

• Drive adoption of standards and tools across teams and communicate recommendations and progress to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership.
• Recruit, onboard, and develop engineers across Toronto and Bengaluru; set expectations, provide feedback, and manage performance and career growth.
• Foster collaboration and an inclusive culture across regions and time zones.

Candidate requirements

• Demonstrated history of Release Engineering transformation and a clear perspective on the discipline's future.
• Capability to own architecture and delivery of Developer Experience and Release Engineering.
• Experience with gated SDLC design, policy-as-code, contract testing, mutation scoring, and SLO-driven progressive delivery.
• Ability to evaluate delivery metrics, identify improvement opportunities, manage risks and dependencies, and communicate recommendations.
• People leadership experience including recruiting, onboarding, development, feedback, and performance management.

Work arrangement

• The posting identifies the role as hybrid in Toronto.