Practice Lead II, Application Release Engineering

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TD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Growth opportunities and skill development are defining features of the colleague experience at TD. Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The base pay actually offered may vary based upon the candidates skills and experience job-related knowledge geographic location and other specific business and organizational needs.

As a candidate you are encouraged to ask compensation related questions and have an open dialogue with your recruiter who can provide you more specific details for this role.

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. Youll 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 practices 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.

Key Responsibilities:

Team Leadership & Talent Development:

• Lead coach and develop a team of highly skilled ARE Practitioners focusing on knowledge skills and performance.

• Build and evolve the practices 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.
  

Practice Strategy & Execution:

• 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.

Co-lead a center of excellence within the ARE practice driving knowledge sharing and skill development to elevate capabilities across the practitioner community.

Operational Excellence & Risk Management:

• 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.

Foster a culture of coaching and self-service empowering development teams to independently onboard and utilize release pipelines driving self-sufficiency and reducing reliance on centralized support where feasible.

Continuous Improvement & Innovation:

• 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.

Qualifications & Experience:

• 8 years of experience in release engineering DevSecOps 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 GitHub Actions Terraform Azure GCP AKS GKE and common scripting languages.

• Experience with multicloud and hybrid cloud environments.

• University or post-graduate degree

Who We Are:

TD is one of the worlds leading global financial institutions and is the fifth largest bank in North America by branches/stores. Every day we deliver legendary customer experiences to over 27 million households and businesses in Canada the United States and around the world. More than 95000 TD colleagues bring their skills talent and creativity to the Bank those we serve and the economies we support. We are guided by our vision to Be the Better Bank and our purpose to enrich the lives of our customers communities and colleagues.

TD is deeply committed to being a leader in customer experience that is why we believe that all colleagues no matter where they work are customer facing. As we build our business and deliver on our strategy we are innovating to enhance the customer experience and build capabilities to shape the future of banking. Whether youve got years of banking experience or are just starting your career in financial services we can help you realize your potential. Through regular leadership and development conversations to mentorship and training programs were here to support you towards your goals. As an organization we keep growing and so will you.

Our Total Rewards Package
Our Total Rewards package reflects the investments we make in our colleagues to help them and their families achieve their financial physical and mental well-being goals. Total Rewards at TD includes a base salary variable compensation and several other key plans such as health and well-being benefits savings and retirement programs paid time off banking benefits and discounts career development and reward and recognition programs. Learn more

Additional Information:
Were delighted that youre considering building a career with TD. Through regular development conversations training programs and a competitive benefits plan were committed to providing the support our colleagues need to thrive both at work and at home.

Please be advised that this job opportunity is subject to provincial regulation for employment purposes. It is imperative to acknowledge that each province or territory within the jurisdiction of Canada may have its own set of regulations requirements.

Colleague Development
If youre interested in a specific career path or are looking to build certain skills we want to help you succeed. Youll have regular career development and performance conversations with your manager as well as access to an online learning platform and a variety of mentoring programs to help you unlock future opportunities. Whether you have a passion for helping customers and want to expand your experience or you want to coach and inspire your colleagues there are many different career paths within our organization at TD and were committed to helping you identify opportunities that support your goals.

Training & Onboarding
We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that youve got everything you need to succeed in your new role.

Interview Process
Well reach out to candidates of interest to schedule an interview. We do our best to communicate outcomes to all applicants by email or phone call.

Accommodation
Your accessibility is important to us. Please let us know if youd like accommodations (including accessible meeting rooms captioning for virtual interviews etc.) to help us remove barriers so that you can participate throughout the interview process.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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