Lead Application Developer - Atlas
Requisition ID: 190124
Career Group: Corporate Office Careers
Job Category: EDO - Merchandising & Supply Chain Data
Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%
Job Type: Full-Time
Country: Canada (CA)
Province: Ontario; Nova Scotia
City: Mississauga; Stellarton
Location: Tahoe Office, Foord St. 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?
We’re looking for a Lead Application Developer to help build and enhance AI-driven applications on the Atlas platform. In this role, you’ll work across emerging technologies like LLMs and machine learning while supporting the entire development lifecycle, from architecture and coding to testing and data engineering.
Here’s where you’ll be focusing:
AI & Solution Design
- Develop the ability to design and implement cutting-edge AI-driven use cases to transform business processes and drive accelerating business impact
- Learn to wield the latest LLMs, Agentic, ML models to solve concrete business problems
- Identify functional and technical solutions to meet requirements
- Translate user requirements into solution design for development and implementation of business technology solutions
- Provide expert knowledge of Atlas architecture and can discuss how the solution’s specific features, characteristics, functionality and design will meet business requirements
Development Lifecycle & Quality
- Ensure the development of detailed functional, technical and operational specifications for delivery of recommended solutions
- Conduct design and code reviews to ensure the solution delivered conforms to IT and team standards and quality software delivery practices
- Provide accurate estimates from analysis and design specifications for yourself and other team members to work on
- Ensure all documentation is created, up to date and correct before solutions or changes are implemented into production
- Code, test, and analyze software programs and applications. This includes researching, documenting, and modifying software and specifications throughout the system development life cycle
- Analyze and amend software to correct errors in a timely and accurate fashion and provide status reports where required
- Determine the most effective program/configuration solution from technical specifications provided by an experienced developer or business analyst
- Create unit test plans with detailed test cases
- Consistently write and test solutions without errors, to estimate and conforming to best practice
- Assist in the preparation and documentation of program specifications
- Implement pull, change requests following defined processes and standards
Technical Operations & Collaboration
- Capture and define technical and operational requirements for solutions
- Ensure management is informed of progress, status and issues of delivery team activities
- Resolve problems with little supervision
- Develop or support software application solutions in a project team/task-based environment
- Provide Tier 2 production support of cloud applications
- Provide user, operational and system documentation for implementation
- Assist senior developers and business analysts in conceptualizing and development of new software programs and systems
- With assistance, provide estimates for all aspects of work and work to deadline
Data & Ontology Engineering
- Build data products/ontology/pipelines following data engineering best practices to satisfy those requirements
- Build solutions following data quality best practices – authoring automated checks for primary keys, expected values, etc.
- Perform data analysis and profiling to ensure correctness in data aggregation and visualization
What you have to offer:
- An undergraduate degree and a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience
- Knowledge of software development techniques such as unit testing, object-oriented design, and collaborative processes
- Experience in TypeScript or JavaScript, and Python/PySpark
- Experience developing applications using containers or serverless functions
- Experience with DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience building automated testing frameworks
- Experience with collaborative software development in a team-based environment
- Familiarity with RDBMS and NoSQL databases, including platforms like SAP and Salesforce
- Conceptual understanding of distributed compute (Hadoop, Spark — driver, executors, partitions)
- Flexibility and adaptability to learn and adopt new technologies
- Experience with Agile and Lean methodologies
- Strong prioritization skills with the ability to execute in a dynamic environment
#LI-Hybrid #LI-LM1
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.
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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.