Senior Release Train Engineer

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Drive alignment, flow, and execution across multiple Agile teams; manage complex releases.
• Facilitate PI planning, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Coach teams on Agile, DevOps, and continuous delivery practices; serve as Scrum Master for a QA-focused team.
• Own end-to-end recurring and ad hoc releases, including weekly production releases.
• Coordinate release schedules with DevOps and platform teams, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment automation.
• Enable readiness through automated testing, stable environments, and deployment pipelines; coordinate consolidated releases.
• Identify bottlenecks and improve lead time, deployment frequency, and release success rates.
• Ensure release governance, quality standards, and change management controls.

Required qualifications

• At least 10 years of overall experience and 7 or more years as an RTE.
• Strong hands-on release management across multiple teams and projects.
• Exposure to DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployments.
• Experience working with QA teams, including performance and regression testing.
• Understanding of dependency management, risk mitigation, and release governance.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and leadership-level stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to operate effectively in a high-frequency, high-velocity release environment.

Preferred qualifications

• Retail or e-commerce experience.
• Working knowledge of Jenkins, GitHub/GitLab, Azure DevOps, AWS, Kubernetes, or similar DevOps tools and platforms.
• SAFe, Scrum Master, or RTE certifications.

Work arrangement

• Hybrid work arrangement; office location is Toronto.

Compensation

• Salary range is CAD $90,000 to $100,000 per year.
• Final compensation depends on location and job-related factors; additional benefits or incentives may apply.

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