Director, Release Train Engineer – Digital Products

Sun Life

Director, Release Train Engineer at Sun Life overseeing Agile Release Trains for digital products. Fostering Agile practices and enhancing end-to-end value delivery in a collaborative environment.

Posted 7/9/2026full-timeWaterloo • 🇨🇦 CanadaLead💰 CA$125,000 - CA$195,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serve as a servant leader and coach for the ART, enabling teams to self-manage while maintaining alignment to shared PI Objectives.
Optimize end-to-end flow of value across the ART using SAFe flow metrics (Flow Velocity, Flow Time, Flow Load, Flow Distribution).
Partner with Product Management and System Architecture to ensure alignment between vision, roadmap, capacity, and architectural runway.
Facilitate and continuously improve planning ceremonies, ensuring readiness, dependency alignment, and commitment to outcomes.
Lead ART Syncs (Scrum of Scrums and PO Sync) to manage dependencies, risks, and progress.
Facilitate System Demos to promote transparency and stakeholder feedback.
Lead Inspect & Adapt events, including problem-solving workshops, blocker clustering and backlog refinement.
Implement communication standards across all programs, including executive, key partner, and vendor communications.
Proactively identify, visualize, and manage cross-team dependencies and risks, escalating impediments that cannot be resolved within the ART.
Foster a culture of early risk identification.
Own the tracking and reporting of Objectives and Key Results including measurements of delivery.
Partner with System Architects, Engineering Leads, and Enterprise Architecture to ensure architectural alignment and enable fast, sustainable flow of value—without directly owning solution design decisions.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Agile experience.
Proven track record delivering in scaled Agile environments (e.g., SAFe, LeSS, SoS), with over 5 years of hands-on experience.
Experience in coaching Agile ways of working to teams in a scaled model.
Experience leading or shaping large transformational efforts.
Strong coaching skill set with considerable experience in coaching large teams with various levels of maturity.
Demonstrated experience facilitating ART ceremonies.
Experience in writing, evolving, and reporting on Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
Experience in senior engineering and technology roles working with product development teams to deliver and build digital products – while remaining hands-on.
An expert digital product delivery.
Experience in DevSecOps, CI/CD and Agile release management.
A wide experience and understanding of digital architecture in terms of solution, data, and integration.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible hybrid work model.
Pension, stock and savings programs to help build and enhance your future financial security.
Work and professional development that is united by our Purpose.
A friendly, collaborative and inclusive culture.
Competitive salary and bonus structure influenced by market range data.
The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential.

ATS Keywords

✓ Tailor your resume

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools

Coaching Agile TeamsFacilitating ART CeremoniesTracking and Reporting OKRsDigital Architecture UnderstandingCI/CD

Soft Skills

Servant LeadershipCommunication Standards ImplementationRisk ManagementDependency Management