Change & Release Specialist - Waterloo, Canada - Definity Financial Corporation

Definity Financial Corporation

Verified Company

Waterloo, Canada

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

Job

ID :
6812

Category :
Technology Solutions

Brand :
Definity

Regular/Temporary :
Regular

Fulltime/Parttime :
Full Time

Location :
Waterloo, Canada

Definity includes some of Canada's most long-standing and innovative insurance brands, including Economical Insurance, Sonnet Insurance, Family Insurance Solutions, and Petline Insurance.

With strong roots that date back to 1871, we've grown to become a digital leader in the insurance industry. We're proud to help our clients and communities adapt and thrive in a world of constant change.

Our promise to you:
It's better here. Why? Because we CARE, and we provide an employee experience that's collaborative, ambitious, rewarding, and empowering.

Our ambition is to be one of Canada's leading and most innovative P&C insurers. Come be a part of our journey, and love what you do.

Definity offers a flexible, hybrid work experience where employees work from the office and virtually depending on the type of work they are doing and who they are working with.

Leaders partner with their teams to find the right balance of on-site and remote work that best meets the needs of their teams, colleagues, brokers and customers, while ensuring collaboration, teamwork and accountability for goals.

Summary

This role is responsible for aligning and ensuring organizational readiness of releases, preparing the team and content for release, managing logistics for the release, and reviewing the release chain for constant improvement.

What motivates you?
Take ownership and build solutions, focusing on what matters.

Obsess about customers, listen, engage, and act for their benefit.

Think big, with curiosity to discover ways to use your agile approach and enable business outcomes.

Thrive in teams and enjoy getting things done together.

Do what is right, work with integrity and speak up.

What you'll be doing

Proactively engage teams to align timing and Coordination of the release schedule and resources across different teams with a focus on optimizing release flow
Manage the logistics of release ensuring people and technology are in place to ensure a smoot and successful release.
Identify opportunities and implement solutions to optimize the release flow technology teams
Keep leaders and business stakeholders updated about the release progress Conduct Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews
Conduct Post-Release analyses to evaluate the success of the release and embed improvements into release practices
Maintains a release repository and manages key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists

What you bring to the role

Minimum 8+yrs of IT enterprise release readiness experience is required
Experience in building common strategies for release governance across multiple business groups
Knowledge in branching, merging and readiness for implementation activities
Experience in Blue Green Deployment release process, Cloud Release Management, Agile methodologies and Scrum master skills
Stakeholder management and cross team management
Clear understanding of Version control and types of deployment
Experience with the following tools: Docker, Jenkins, ELK, Artifactory, Ansible, Vault, Consul, Kubernetes, Terraform, JIRA, Confluence, nginx, HA Proxy, SoftLayer, GIT, Bitbucket
Understanding of Cloud technologies (AWS and GCP) and tools
Knowledge of DevOps and continuous integration and development (CI/CD) tools. Ability to identify gaps and implement improvements to the CI/CD pipeline
Knowledge of Application development life cycle and testing
Experience with E2E enterprise integrated systems
Relevant tools assessment and replacement/upgrade recommendations based on current and trending Best Practices
Knowledge in branching, merging and readiness for implementation activities
Insurance COTS product knowledge and ITIL v4 certified is an asset

Go ahead and expect a lot — you deserve it, and we've got it:

Hybrid work schedule for most roles
Company share ownership program
Pension and savings programs, with companymatched RRSP contributions
Paid volunteer days and company matching on charitable donations
Educational resources, tuition assistance, and paid time off to study for exams
Focus on inclusion with employee groups, support for gender affirmation surgery, access to BIPOC counsellors, access to programs for working parents
Wellness and recognition programs
Discounts on products and services

Background checks
This role requires successful clearance of a background check (including criminal checks and leadership references).

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