Practice Lead II, Release Engineering

Practice Lead II, Application Release Engineering

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Location:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours:

37.5

Line Of Business:
Technology Solutions

Pay Details: $115,600 - $163,200 CAD (role temporarily eligible for a pay premium above posted salary range, reassessed annually. Base pay may vary).

Job Description
The Practice Lead, Application Release Engineering (ARE) is accountable for building, maintaining, and evolving the culture and community of ARE Practitioners. As a Senior Manager and Practice Lead, you will mature ARE capabilities, set clear standards, and drive adoption across segments. You’ll partner closely with technology stakeholders and platform teams to remove systemic obstacles to flow.
This role oversees a team of AREs and DBAs, focusing on coaching, talent development, technical thought leadership and performance management, while advancing the practice’s capabilities and ensuring solutions are sound and aligned with enterprise standards. The Practice Lead acts as an expert innovator and culture change agent, driving the adoption of new tools, technologies, methodologies, and processes.

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of highly skilled ARE Practitioners, focusing on knowledge, skills, and performance.
• Build and evolve the practice’s capabilities, leveraging advanced knowledge of application release engineering (ARE) frameworks, tools, processes, and procedures.
• Provide overall team leadership, training, succession planning, recruitment and resource management.
• Generate and analyze reports to enable data‑driven decisions on prioritizing automation initiatives and measuring team capacity trends, ensuring resources are focused where they deliver the greatest impact.
• Monitor team billing accuracy and financial management, overseeing resource allocation and expense tracking to support operational and budgetary goals.

• Act as a strategic partner to business and technology stakeholders, driving operational advancement and continuous improvement in release engineering practices.
• Drive the utilization of CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and tooling to improve reliability, speed, auditability, and observability.
• Champion automation and process efficiencies across the release pipeline.
• Ensure best practices that make releases consistent, repeatable, and efficient.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives and contribute to the knowledge base supporting release, deploy, and integration practices.

• Monitor assigned functional areas for productivity and efficiency, continually improving delivery capability.
• Manage intake and demand, coordinating resources as required and ensuring effective resource utilization.
• Maintain a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite.

• Proactively identify key business opportunities, research and recommend enhancements, and develop strategies to achieve recommendations.
• Contribute to the continuous enhancement of knowledge/expertise and keep current with emerging industry trends, new technologies, and best practices.
• Influence the development and implementation of reliable production systems and services to address emerging business needs and strategies.

• 8+ years of experience in release engineering, Dev Sec Ops , SRE, platform engineering or software delivery roles.
• Proven ability to manage large teams and develop colleagues.
• Deep understanding of CI/CD systems, deployment automation, infrastructure as code, and the software development lifecycle.
• Technical expertise with tooling and platforms such as Git Hub Actions, Terraform, Azure, GCP, AKS, GKE and common scripting languages.
• Experience with multi‑cloud and hybrid cloud environments.
• University or post‑graduate degree.

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