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This role ensures that changes are delivered safely, efficiently, and in alignment with enterprise standards while minimizing operational risk and business disruption.\nYou will serve as the central coordination point across Engineering, Operations, Architecture, Quality Assurance, Project Delivery, Application Support, Change Management, and third-party vendors for new capabilities, software currency work, remediation activities, and production deployments.\nIs this role right for you? In this role, you will:\nRelease Planning & Coordination\nOwn and maintain the integrated release calendar across IAM platforms and services.\nPlan and coordinate production, maintenance, hotfix, emergency, and software currency releases.\nFacilitate release readiness reviews and Go/No-Go decision meetings.\nIdentify and manage cross-team dependencies, scheduling conflicts, delivery constraints, and implementation sequencing.\nCoordinate deployment activities across technology teams, project teams, service owners, and vendors.\nChange & Production Governance\nEnsure releases align with enterprise Change Management standards and required approvals.\nValidate change records, implementation plans, rollback procedures, testing evidence, risk mitigations, schedules, and approvals.\nCoordinate Change Advisory Board (CAB) and release governance activities where required.\nMonitor production changes for adherence to release processes, controls, and documentation expectations.\nSupport timely closure of release-related audit, risk, and compliance findings.\nJira & Delivery Management\nGovern consistent use of Jira releases, epics, stories, and work-tracking standards.\nEnsure release scope, ownership, dependencies, status, and outcomes are accurate and traceable.\nProvide transparent reporting for planned, in-flight, completed, delayed, and failed releases.\nPartner with delivery leads to improve backlog readiness and release forecasting.\nQuality, Risk & Operational Readiness\nCoordinate testing activities with QA, engineering, security, and application teams.\nVerify that release readiness criteria and the agreed Definition of Done are met.\nConfirm completion of regression, integration, security, performance, and operational validation as applicable.\nEnsure rollback, recovery, contingency, monitoring, support coverage, and communication plans are documented and executable.\nIdentify release risks and service-impact concerns, assign mitigation actions, and escalate material issues.\nFacilitate post-implementation reviews for failed, unauthorized, or high-risk changes and track corrective actions.\nContinuous Improvement\nDefine and continuously improve release management processes, standards, templates, and procedures.\nPromote deployment automation, CI/CD controls, and repeatable release practices where appropriate.\nDevelop release KPIs, dashboards, and trend reporting to identify improvement opportunities.\nImprove release predictability, schedule adherence, deployment quality, traceability, and cycle time.\nHave five or more years of experience in Release Management, Change Management, Project Delivery, DevOps, or IT Operations.\nHave experience coordinating complex releases across multiple applications, platforms, teams, or vendors.\nHave experience supporting enterprise production environments and regulated change controls.\nHave working knowledge of Jira, Agile delivery practices, SDLC, DevOps, ITIL Change and Release Management, CI/CD concepts, incident management, and production support.\nHave strong stakeholder management, facilitation, risk assessment, decision-making, planning, and written communication skills.\nDo you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We'd love to work with you if you have:\nFive or more years of experience in Release Management, Change Management, Project Delivery, DevOps, or IT Operations.\nExperience coordinating complex releases across multiple applications, platforms, teams, or vendors.\nExperience supporting enterprise production environments and regulated change controls.\nWorking knowledge of Jira, Agile delivery practices, SDLC, DevOps, ITIL Change and Release Management, CI/CD concepts, incident management, and production support.\nStrong stakeholder management, facilitation, risk assessment, decision-making, planning, and written communication skills.\nNice to Have\nITIL certification.\nPMP, Agile, Scrum, SAFe, or related delivery certification.\nExperience within Identity and Access Management (IAM).\nExperience with SailPoint IdentityIQ, Microsoft Entra ID, Privileged Access Management, authentication, or related identity platforms.\nExperience in a regulated financial services environment.\nSuccess Measures\nRelease and change success rates, with reduced release-related production incidents.\nRelease schedule adherence and deployment lead time.\nChange governance compliance and audit-ready traceability.\nJira data quality, release transparency, and stakeholder satisfaction\nWhat's in it for you?\nDiversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship - We strive to create an inclusive culture where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are, and are embraced through bias-free practices and inclusive values across Scotiabank. We embrace diversity and provide opportunities for all employee to learn, grow & participate through our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability & veterans.\nAccessibility and Workplace Accommodations - We value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Scotiabank continues to locate, remove and prevent barriers so that we can build a diverse and inclusive environment while meeting accessibility requirements.\nUpskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.\nCompetitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days and benefits will start on day one.\nCommunity Engagement - no matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons, contests, Humans of Digital and much more\nLocation(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto\nScotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: \"for every future\", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.\nAt Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. 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