Release & Deployment Lead

Release & Deployment Lead

Vencora Whitchurch‑Stouffville, Ontario, Canada

Reports to:

Manager, Cloud Ops & Security

Location:

Stouffville, ON

Salary: $85,000 - $105,000

Department: R&D

Date posted: 1 month ago. Be among the first 25 applicants.

At Portfolio+, we empower financial institutions with secure, scalable, and customer‑first solutions. As a proudly Canadian company, we’re at the forefront of open finance, delivering cutting‑edge cloud technology that simplifies operations, enhances security, and drives innovation. Our team thrives in a collaborative, growth‑oriented environment where ideas matter, and impact is real. If you're passionate about fintech, innovation, and making a difference, Portfolio+ is the place to build your career.

We’re hiring a Release & Deployment Lead to lead the end‑to‑end software release lifecycle planning, orchestration, deployments, upgrades, and customer migrations. You’ll be the connective tissue across Engineering, QA, Product, Dev Ops, and Customer Success to deliver smooth, reliable, and timely releases with minimal risk and a strong focus on customer experience, security, and service quality.

• Build and own release calendars, cutover plans, and roadmaps across multiple products/environments.
• Facilitate go/on‑go reviews, CABs, and cross‑functional readiness checks.
• Identify dependencies, manage risks, and remove blockers to keep releases on track.
• Drive clear, timely communications to stakeholders and, where applicable, customers.

• Plan, execute, and monitor deployments for dev/test/staging/production.
• Execute deployment scripts, database migrations, configuration changes, and feature flags.
• Ensure robust version control, branching strategies, and rollback/forward‑fix procedures.
• Troubleshoot live deployment issues and coordinate rapid incident response with Dev Ops/SRE.

• Lead infrastructure, platform, and third‑party upgrades with zero/low downtime strategies.
• Partner with Dev Ops/Cloud teams to validate compatibility, performance, and capacity.
• Own contingency, rollback, and validation plans to safeguard reliability.

• Co‑design customer migration plans with Customer Success, Product, and Support.
• Sequence migrations to minimize downtime and business impact; coordinate notifications.
• Ensure data integrity, privacy, and security through every migration step.

• Define and enforce release quality gates, approvals, and change controls (e.g., CAB).
• Track and report release health (e.g., change failure rate, MTTR, deployment frequency).
• Lead post‑release reviews and root‑cause analyses with clear corrective actions.
• Uphold security, regulatory, and company standards throughout the release lifecycle.

• Evolve tooling, processes, and runbooks to reduce manual effort and errors.
• Champion best practices in Dev Ops, observability, and progressive delivery.
• Mentor teams on release hygiene, readiness, and operational excellence.
• Manage the year ahead of releases (major/minor) for all products.

What you bring:

• 5+ years in Safe Agile, Release Management, Dev Ops, SRE, or Software Deployment roles.
• Proven success coordinating complex, multi‑environment releases at scale.
• Hands‑on experience with enterprise upgrades, data migrations, and cutovers.
• Background in customer‑facing deployments and managing change in production.
• Strong CI/CD and automation (e.g., Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI, Jenkins).
• Containers and orchestration (, Kubernetes).
• Infrastructure‑as‑Code (Terraform, Cloud Formation, Ansible).
• Git proficiency (branching, tagging, release/versioning strategies).
• Database migration tooling and practices (e.g., Liquibase/Flyway or equivalent).
• Scripting (Bash, Power Shell, Python) for automation and tooling.
• Observability and logging (e.g., Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/EFK, Open Telemetry).
• Solid troubleshooting across application, infrastructure, and network layers.
• Tools:
  Dev Ops/Jira, Git, CI/CD (A DO/Git Hub/Git Lab/Jenkins), Octopus Deploy, Slack/Teams, observability and incident…