Transformation Release Management Consultant

Location: Toronto, ON

Onsite Flexibility: Hybrid

• Position Type: Contract
• Contract Duration: 12 months
• Pay Rate: C$75.00–C$80.00 / Hour (CAD)
• Shift / Schedule: Days
• Travel Requirements: 3 days per week hybrid; some flexibility if absolutely needed

Our client is seeking an experienced Transformation Release Management Consultant to support a major core banking modernization program. This is a senior-level consulting role focused on coordinating and governing complex software releases across front-end and back-end platforms, ensuring dependencies are understood, sequencing is managed, and releases stay aligned to the overall delivery calendar. The successful candidate will combine strong release management, SDLC, Agile, and software delivery experience with the ability to work across product, engineering, platform, QA, and business teams.

• Manage and coordinate complex software releases across front-end, back-end, and platform teams.
• Maintain alignment between planned releases, the enterprise release calendar, and overall transformation milestones.
• Understand release sequencing, technical dependencies, integration points, and downstream impacts.
• Partner with engineering, product, QA, architecture, and delivery teams to assess readiness and identify risks.
• Monitor release progress and proactively address schedule risks, blockers, and dependencies.
• Support release planning, governance, implementation readiness, and post-release activities.
• Complement and work closely with the existing release management team.
• Facilitate cross-functional release meetings and provide clear status updates to senior stakeholders.
• Ensure release activities align with established SDLC, Agile, and continuous-delivery practices.
• Drive consistency and discipline across software delivery and release processes.

• 7 years of experience in release management, technical delivery, program/project management, or software delivery.
• Experience working at a Senior Manager / senior consultant level within complex technology environments.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile delivery, and continuous-delivery models.
• Experience coordinating releases across multiple applications, platforms, and technical teams.
• Strong understanding of software delivery dependencies, sequencing, testing, and implementation readiness.
• Experience supporting digital products, platforms, or large-scale technology transformation programs.
• Strong stakeholder-management, communication, and coordination skills.
• Ability to understand technical issues while maintaining a broader program and delivery perspective.
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced environments with multiple concurrent releases and dependencies.

• Experience supporting large-scale platform modernization or transformation programs.
• Experience within financial services, banking, or other regulated industries.
• Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD, release automation, and modern engineering practices.
• Previous consulting or enterprise transformation experience.

This client is a digital-first Canadian bank focused on delivering simple, no-fee everyday banking to customers. Operating in the Canadian financial services market, the organization is currently undergoing a significant core banking modernization program, bringing together engineers, product managers, delivery consultants, release managers, and technology transformation specialists to build a next-generation banking platform.

GTT is an NMSDC-certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) headquartered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. GTT is a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, an Alaska-based company and one of the largest Alaska Native-owned corporations. An Inc. 5000 honoree and one of SIA's Best Staffing Firms to Work For, GTT connects professionals with Fortune 500 organizations across IT, engineering, construction, utilities, life sciences, financial services, and healthcare throughout the U.S. and Canada. We're committed to diverse, inclusive workplaces and to placing people in roles where they can do their best work.

Job Number: 26-18343 Industry: Information Technology

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