Tech Lead (14 months contract)
Requisition ID: 187421
Career Group: Corporate Office Careers
Job Category: Technology Solutions - Marketing
Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%
Job Type: Full-Time
Country: Canada (CA)
Province: Ontario; Alberta; Nova Scotia
City: Mississauga / Calgary / Stellarton
Location: Calgary Office, Foord St. Office, Tahoe Office
Embark on a rewarding career with Sobeys Inc., celebrated among Canada’s Top 100 employers, where your talents contribute to our commitment to excellence and community impact.
Our family of 128,000 employees and franchise affiliates share a collective passion for delivering exceptional shopping experiences and amazing food to all our customers. Our mission is to nurture the things that make life better – great experiences, families, communities, and our employees. We are a family nurturing families.
A proudly Canadian company, we started in a small town in Nova Scotia but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country. With over 1,600 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.
Ready to Make an impact?
Sobeys is full of exciting opportunities and we are always looking for bright new talent to join our team! We currently have a contract opportunity for an Tech Lead (14 months contract). This role can be based out of one our main offices including: Stellarton, NS; Mississauga, ON.
Here’s where you’ll be focusing:
As a Tech Lead with Sobeys, you will:
- Technical Expertise -Serve as a technology expert in the product area and maintains a depth of knowledge incurrent industry trends for the respective Product business functional area. Guides the team with its technical deliverables.
- Operations & People Management - Manage the day-to-day product activities of the team and integrates work into product backlogs. Ensure proactive and reactive problem management is driven across all the delivery teams. Provide advice and lessons learned, and proactively helps teams improve their ways of working and supporting tools (e.g., Jira). May lead teams in Daily Scrums.
- Delivery - Advice and lead product teams on Agile practices, processes, and overall approach to executing product delivery quickly and with quality. Also, leads and coaches the team in DevOps methods and delivery. Raise the performance of product teams through continuous improvement and meeting facilitation.
- Design - Advice the team in the development of the solution design based on the business and technology requirements.
- Continuous Improvement - Drive improvement using a hypothesis; experimentation; measure; knowledge sharing; and ensure teams are actively seeking out opportunities for improvement. Contribute technical expertise in service of continuously improving applications across their lifecycle and provide ongoing maintenance and support to adapt to changing business requirements. Involved in Release planning &Management.
- Stakeholder Engagement & Support - Engage with relevant stakeholders in end-to-end service delivery lifecycle. Ensure the appropriate signoffs are obtained at the correct stage (e.g., Architecture, IT security, Infrastructure and Product teams etc.), appropriate operational and support requirements are maintained.
- Maintenance & Testing - Ensure the completion of business, technology and operational testing and the definition and optimization of appropriate service maintenance models.
What you have to offer:
Your experience and resume will show us
- Minimum 5 years of IT experience.
- Experience with SAP CDC / Gigya preferred.
- Experience with Identity and Access Management required.
- Strong leadership and people management skills.
- Solid understanding of the infrastructure and application landscape.
- Proven track record in Service, Demand, Change and Release Management.
- Excellent understanding and awareness of ITIL processes and tools.
- Expert knowledge of concepts and tools behind the design of the relevant area of expertise e.g., business processes or systems and underlying information technologies.
- Business acumen coupled with good understanding and awareness of the technology enabling the Team’s business functional area.
- Negotiation Skills.
- Agile or Scrum certification (nice to have).
At Sobeys we require our teammates to have the ability to adhere to a hybrid work model that requires your presence at one of our office locations at least three days per week. This requirement is integral to our commitment to team collaboration and the overall success of our office culture.
We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package, which varies by role and designed to help our teammates to live better – physically, financially and emotionally.
Some websites share our job opportunities and may provide salary estimates without our knowledge. These estimates are based on similar jobs and postings for general comparison, but these numbers are not provided by our organization nor monitored for accuracy.
We will consider factors such as your working location, work experience and skills as well as internal equity, and market conditions to ensure the selected candidate is paid fairly and competitively. We look forward to discussing the specific compensation details relevant to this role with candidates who are selected to move forward in the recruitment process.
Our Total Rewards programs, for full-time teammates, goes well beyond your paycheque:
- Competitive Benefits Package, tailored to meet your needs, including health and dental coverage, life, short- and long-term disability insurance.
- Access to Virtual Health Care Platform and Employee and Family Assistance Program.
- A Retirement and Savings Plan that provides you with the opportunity to build and add value to your savings.
- A 10% in-store discount at our participating banners and access to a wide range of other discount programs, making your purchases more affordable.
- Learning and Development Resources to fuel your professional growth.
- Parental leave top-up
- Paid Vacation and Days-off
We are committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process.