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title: 'Delivery Lead, AI Platform Design at RAVL'
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# Delivery Lead, AI Platform Design at RAVL

- **Company:** RAVL
- **Location:** Toronto, Canada
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-04-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/ravl_io/802b3067-692e-42e3-887a-7f4d539ec412

## Job description

RAVL is a boutique technology advisory and engineering firm focused on the financial services industry. Everything we do is centered on helping our clients realize measurable ROI from their technology investments. We’re growing our delivery team and hiring Delivery Leads to support a range of complex digital and AI initiatives across clients. These roles focus on driving execution across cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment between product, design, and engineering, and enabling predictable, high-quality delivery across large-scale programs. These opportunities include both active programs and pipeline hiring for upcoming work, with a focus on bringing structure and clarity to complex delivery environments.

What does success look like in this role?

- Own end-to-end delivery strategy across complex, multi-team programs
- Establish and evolve delivery frameworks, planning models, and execution standards
- Ensure alignment between design outputs and delivery timelines
- Lead backlog shaping, sequencing, and dependency management across teams
- Define and drive delivery cadence (planning, backlog governance, story readiness)
- Manage risks, dependencies, and escalations at a program level
- Interface with senior stakeholders to align on priorities, scope, and reporting
- Implement delivery metrics and continuous improvement practices
- Coach teams on delivery excellence and operational maturity

Great, do my skills fit?

- 10+ years in delivery leadership across complex digital or platform initiatives
- Strong expertise in agile delivery, planning, and dependency management
- Experience designing delivery operating models
- Strong stakeholder management at senior/executive level
- Ability to drive structured execution in ambiguous environments
- Experience leading without direct authority

## Nice to have skills

- Experience in AI, data, or platform programs
- Consulting or advisory background

Mindset Traits

- Systems thinker with program-level perspective
- Outcome-driven and highly accountable
- Structured, calm, and decisive
- Strong communicator with executive presence

Why work at RAVL?

- Flexible, client-aligned work model — autonomy with accountability, adapting to client delivery needs
- Variable bonus & RRSP contributions tied to performance and delivery impact.
- 4 weeks paid time off (plus public holidays)
- Paid professional development days and continuous learning opportunities
- Comprehensive health & dental coverage, including mental health support
- Commitment to lifelong learning — continuous improvement through training, mentorship, and certification

## Compensation & hiring process

We are recruiting for a current opportunity. The salary range for this role is $140,000–$175,000 CAD, reflecting expected base pay. Total compensation may also include additional pay such as bonuses or incentives, depending on the position, and final offers are based on experience, skills, and qualifications. As part of our hiring process we may use technology, including AI-based tools, to help summarize and assess applications; these tools assist our team and do not replace human review or decision-making.

## Equal Opportunity & Accessibility

RAVL is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and accessible workplace. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals and provide accommodations throughout the hiring process upon request.

## About RAVL

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: RAVL is a boutique advisory and engineering firm that helps North American financial services institutions build better technology through full-stack product development, AI modernization, cloud platform engineering, and DevSecOps.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Partnership; venture-backed with a 2025 round led by MML Capital Partners)
- **Headquarters**: Toronto, Ontario, Canada (East York; 6 Annesley Avenue, M4G 2T6), with a presence in the United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Founded by four partners; leadership includes Rick Davidson (Chief Executive Officer), Dominic Wallace (Chief Technology Officer), Sean Quinn (Chairman), and Ryan Kehl (Partner)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: IT Services and IT Consulting; specialized in Financial Services technology (FSI)
- **Target customers**: Enterprise financial services institutions in North America (banks, insurers, capital markets firms), plus organizations undertaking legacy modernization, cloud transformation, and AI adoption
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To be a true partner to our clients by building better technology that drives meaningful, long-lasting business outcomes." (Byline: "RAVL Builds. Better.")

## Products & Services
RAVL operates across three core delivery models plus an AI-focused methodology:

- **Advise (Strategize & Solution)**: Architecture design, business/technology capability mapping, business casing, cost optimization, customer journey mapping, governance, operating models, process improvement, technical assessments/root-cause analysis, technology selection, and technology strategy & roadmaps.
- **Build (Engineer & Deliver)**: Solutions architecture, cloud engineering, DevSecOps, platform engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, application development, AI & Machine Learning, and Infrastructure as Code.
- **BuildX (Sustain. Upskill. Empower.)**: Outcome-based delivery where clients can hire a subset of the RAVL team to extend the engagement. Combines cloud/platform engineering, software engineering, mentorship, and hands-on learning journeys.
- **AI / Leap Left (AI-first SDLC)**: RAVL's approach to AI-first software development lifecycle — aligning people, workflows, governance, and engineering systems to accelerate delivery while managing everything surrounding code creation.

Technical specialties include: full-stack digital product development, AI systems modernization (legacy-to-modern platform transformation), microservices & APIs, DevSecOps & developer experience, cloud platforms & tooling, and site reliability engineering.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — venture round announced 2025-01-24, with 1 investor, led by MML Capital Partners; specific amount not publicly disclosed
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: MML Capital Partners (lead investor)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Headcount grew ~45.9% YoY (+34 employees, from ~54 to 88)
  - Monthly headcount growth at time of data: +3.8%
  - LinkedIn followers grew +32.9% yearly, to ~4,140
  - 22 active job postings (quarterly job posting trend: +57.1%)
  - Acquired New Helio, expanding capabilities
  - Workforce distributed across Canada (86) and the United States (2), with deep hiring from top consultancies and financial institutions (CGI, Capco, TD, Scotiabank, McKinsey & Company, Slalom)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep FSI domain fluency**: Decades of combined experience from North America's leading financial services institutions and top global consulting/engineering firms (McKinsey, Capco, TD, Scotiabank, etc.)
- **"Build. Better." execution bias**: Strategy work that is designed for real-world execution rather than slide-deck deliverables
- **End-to-end ownership**: Covers everything from advisory/strategy through build, cloud/platform engineering, DevSecOps, SRE, and AI modernization — not just code delivery
- **BuildX talent model**: A differentiated engagement model where clients can hire the team, enabling continuity and knowledge transfer rather than the traditional consultancy "hand-off"
- **Leap Left AI-first SDLC methodology**: A proprietary approach to AI-first software delivery that addresses the non-coding constraints (people, workflows, governance) around modern engineering
- **High employee satisfaction**: 4.8/5.0 employer rating (15 reviews) with culture rated 4.9 and career development rated 4.8 — a differentiator when attracting technologists

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling its AI-powered modernization and Leap Left methodology across financial services clients
- Continuing to build national (Canadian) and US presence through strategic hiring — particularly in technical roles (50 of ~88 employees are technical) and senior consulting talent
- Growing through selective acquisitions (e.g., New Helio) to expand advisory/engineering capacity
- Strengthening the BuildX model to deepen long-term client partnerships and talent development
- Building a "Talent Pool" pipeline for future hires, indicating proactive workforce planning around continued growth

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Rated 4.8/5.0 overall on employer review platforms — with Culture at 4.9, Career Development at 4.8, Work-Life Balance at 4.6, and Compensation at 4.6
- **Work model**: Hybrid workspace (combination of remote and on-site work) at the Toronto HQ
- **Growth environment**: 45.9% YoY headcount growth, 22 open positions, and heavy investment in mentorship and hands-on learning journeys (BuildX)
- **Engineering-led**: Technical staff make up ~46% of the workforce — engineers are core to the business, not an adjunct
- **Compensation benchmarks** (publicly listed salaries): Associate Engineer ~CAD 54,691/year; Consultant ~CAD 120,749/year; Principal Consultant ~CAD 223,802/year
- **Notable perk**: AI tools are used to support parts of the hiring process (resume review, response analysis), yet final decisions are human-driven — reflecting their AI-first but human-judgment approach
- **Impact**: Opportunity to work on mission-critical modernization and AI transformation projects for North America's leading financial institutions

## Sources
1. [ravl.io](https://www.ravl.io/)
2. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/ravl_io)
3. [ca.linkedin.com](https://ca.linkedin.com/company/ravl-io)
4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/ravl)
5. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/ravl)

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