About this role
About the Job
We are seeking an Senior Release Train Engineer (RTE) with a strong background in Scrum Mastery, Release Management, and DevOps enablement to support a fast-paced retail delivery environment. This role will act as the central delivery and release orchestrator, ensuring seamless coordination across Agile teams, QA, DevOps, and business stakeholders.
The RTE will drive complex releases by enabling automation, improving flow through CI/CD pipelines, and enforcing release governance?while providing transparency to leadership on delivery health, risks, and release readiness.
Office Location: Toronto
Employment Type: Permanent
Role Type: New position ? current requirement
Work Arrangement: Hybrid
Position Responsibilities
- Serve as Senior Release Train Engineer, driving alignment, flow, and execution across multiple Agile teams
Taking ownership of managing complex releases across all teams
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies including PI planning, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
- Coach teams on Agile, DevOps, and continuous delivery best practices to improve predictability and throughput.
- Act as Scrum Master for a QA-focused team, including performance, regression, and web QA engineers.
- Own end-to-end release management for multiple recurring and ad-hoc releases.
- Plan, coordinate, and execute weekly production releases with minimal business disruption.
- Partner with DevOps and platform teams to align release schedules with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
- Enable release readiness through automated testing, stable environments, and deployment pipelines.
- Coordinate consolidated releases across multiple teams and value streams.
- Identify delivery and pipeline bottlenecks and drive improvements to lead time, deployment frequency, and release success rates.
- Ensure compliance with release governance, quality standards, and change management controls.
Requirements
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of overall experience and 7+ years as an RTE
- Strong hands-on experience in Release Management across multiple teams and projects.
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