Application Packager

Application Packager

Location: Calgary, AB
Work Arrangement: Onsite
Salary: CAD $90,000 $105,000 Base Salary
Employment Type: Full-time

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Application Packager with a minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in enterprise application packaging, software deployment, and application lifecycle management. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Microsoft SCCM/MECM, Windows Installer technologies, MSI/MST packaging, scripting, and enterprise software deployment.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop functional, high-level application packaging standards and best practices and create complex Microsoft Windows Installer packages for enterprise production environments.

• Manage and support an enterprise-wide software deployment strategy using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM/MECM).

• Design, build, update, test, validate, and maintain application packages for reliable enterprise deployment.

• Package COTS, GOTS, and custom-developed applications using AdminStudio, InstallShield, and/or PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit (PSAppDeployToolkit).

• Build silent MSI/MST installation packages for eventual deployment through Microsoft Endpoint Manager.

• Apply required application settings and configurations using industry-standard tools and low-level custom scripting.

• Conduct enterprise application discovery with developers and business/requesting users to gather requirements, settings, configurations, and preferences.

• Create high-volume, conflict-free, validated, advertised, rollback-enabled, just-in-time, error-free, and restorable packages certified for delivery through the configuration management environment.

• Prepare, build, update, and maintain a clean, repeatable virtual machine base environment from which packaging builds are initiated.

• Automate the packaging environment, including configuration of tools, required merge modules, and company-wide/global settings.

• Develop scripts to automate packaging and deployment processes using PowerShell, VBScript, CScript, and/or WScript.

• Provide package completion estimates along with regular activity, status, and progress reporting for electronic application delivery.

• Manage the complete SCCM software deployment and application lifecycle, including software updates, service packs, emergency security patches, and preventive maintenance.

• Troubleshoot and resolve application packaging, installation, deployment, compatibility, and production issues, including remote or elusive symptoms spanning multiple environments.

• Support ad-hoc business requests for application creation, packaging, deployment, and on-demand troubleshooting.

• Recommend the best deployment approach while collaborating with the Change Advisory Board (CAB), User Engagement teams, business stakeholders, developers, and technical teams.

• Follow established change management and release management processes, including planning and scheduling maintenance activities.

• Identify and resolve problems within the production Microsoft environment and proactively recommend solutions or improvements to management.

• Manage multiple assignments simultaneously while maintaining established timelines, quality standards, and delivery commitments.

• Work effectively as part of cross-functional project teams and help foster team commitment to tasks and deliverables.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in application packaging and software deployment.

• Strong hands-on expertise with Microsoft SCCM/MECM and enterprise-wide software deployment.

• Extensive experience with Windows Installer, MSI/MST packaging, silent installations, transforms, and application customization.

• Hands-on experience with AdminStudio, InstallShield, and/or PSAppDeployToolkit.

• Extensive scripting experience using PowerShell, VBScript, CScript, and/or WScript.

• Strong understanding of the complete SCCM software deployment and application lifecycle.

• Experience troubleshooting complex Microsoft Windows production environments and deployment issues.

• Strong understanding of change management and release management processes.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Excellent analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills with strict attention to detail.

• Highly motivated self-starter with the ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities.

• Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams.

• Flexible, friendly, congenial, and enthusiastic, with a willingness to do whatever is necessary to complete assignments on time and with quality.

• Demonstrated ability to understand and apply new technical and business concepts.

• Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems involving remote or elusive symptoms across multiple environments.

• Creative and proactive approach to problem solving, with the ability to develop solutions and recommend appropriate actions to management.

Nice-to-Have Skills

1. Experience with Microsoft Intune / Endpoint Manager and modern application deployment technologies.

2. Experience with MSIX, App-V, or other application virtualization and packaging technologies.

3. Strong knowledge of Windows Registry, Group Policy, Active Directory, and Windows OS internals.

4. Experience developing advanced PowerShell automation for application packaging and deployment workflows.

5. Experience supporting large-scale enterprise environments with complex application dependencies, compatibility issues, and deployment challenges.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a technically strong, self-motivated, detail-oriented, and collaborative application packaging professional who can independently manage the full application lifecycle-from application discovery, requirements gathering, packaging, scripting, testing, and validation through enterprise deployment, troubleshooting, patching, and ongoing maintenance-while working effectively with both technical and business stakeholders.