Department: Information Technology

Location: Canada-CHQ-Ontario-Toronto

Description This position is ideal for a candidate with a background in software development practices and project management to join the Treatment Planning team as a Senior Release Manager, coordinating internal software releases across a large group. Partnering with international teams, you’ll provide a collaborative, clear process and the project management support needed to streamline software deliveries and improve efficiency. This role is key to Align Technology’s ability to deliver innovative software solutions.

Role expectations

• Develop release plans and cutover plans for cloud services, including the entire path to production with testing, deliverables, and integration, and drive the plan through regular meetings with stakeholders.
• Guide teams in implementing and maintaining an agile development process, coordinating sprints across several development teams.
• Monitor during development and after release, creating Jira and Splunk dashboards as needed.
• Hold planning and review meetings, go/no-go decision points, retrospective reviews, risk assessments, etc.
• Compile requirements documents and other release documentation from project requirements and other sources, ensuring compliance with quality management and regulatory guidelines.

What We're Looking For

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science or relevant engineering discipline.
• Experience: 6-10 years of hands-on experience developing, testing, or leading software development, including cloud services.
• Skills: Project management, cloud software design and deployment, software release life cycle and best practices.
• Communication: Strong written and verbal English communications skills.
• Teamwork: A proactive approach to problem-solving across a team. Experience in collaborative environments. Participating in a project from ideation to completion.

Complementary skills

• Good understanding of verification and validation test strategies.
• Proven leadership in driving a project to completion.
• Scrum master, SAFe, PMP, other development lifecycle certifications.
• Experience working in a regulated industry.
• Docs-as-code, Jira, Git, Confluence, Splunk.
• Experience with AWS.

Pay Transparency If provided, base salary or wage rate ranges are the range in which Align reasonably expects to set a candidate’s pay for the posted position. Actual placement depends on the individual skills and experience level of a candidate plus the total compensation and equity across team members. For other locations outside of the primary location, the base salary range will be adjusted geographically.

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