Technical Product Manager - Atlas
Requisition ID: 190123
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 Technical Product Manager to lead the strategic development and ongoing evolution of our Atlas platform. In this role, you’ll bridge the gap between business goals and technical execution — guiding a diverse team, partnering with key stakeholders, and ensuring the product delivers tangible value across the enterprise.
Here’s where you’ll be focusing:
- Execute on the strategic Atlas product roadmap aligned with enterprise vision, business objectives and market needs
- Work directly with internal stakeholders to quickly understand their greatest problems and design and implement solutions to use data against them
- Technical Decomp: synthesize complex, open-ended business problems into well-defined and structured development requirements, ensuring that the development priorities are based on concrete business benefits and outcomes
- Responsible for setting product governance in partnership with CTAO and EDO, product performance analysis, user adoption, identifying areas of improvement and ensure tech stack follows data privacy laws and compliance standards
- Lead a diverse team of specialists to enhance the product
- Develop a solid understanding of the platform to oversee the end-to-end product development lifecycle, advising both business and technical teams on the most optimal development path from ideation to launch and ongoing optimizations. Plan and execute on ongoing product releases. Coordinate system lifecycle upgrades, integration, security, privacy, infrastructure, testing requests, timelines across product deliverables
- Application Enhancements - Effectively manage backlog items into work packages/sprints and manage Agile Place item maintenance. Manage sprint deployment timelines and status for the backlog. Be the go-to person to help remove project or backlog blockers
- Project Planning - For Mid-Complex Projects, partner with Business Lead to create and manage project plans, including defining project scope, objectives, timelines, resource planning and budgets.
- Track and Communicate Project Progress - Provide regular, clear and concise visibility to enhancement/project status (key decisions, dependencies, issues, risks, metrics) on a standard cadence through status reporting and project/resource reviews.
- Risk and Issue Management - Manage and appropriately escalate project/product issues and key decision points (KDPs). Facilitate solutions to technical, functional, process and business problems.
What you have to offer:
- A bachelor’s degree in business administration, computer science, information technology, or a related field
- Strong engineering background, preferred in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, and Data Science
- Proficient coder with demonstrated expertise in languages such as Python, Java, C++, TypeScript/JavaScript, or similar
- 8+ years of relevant experience in technical product or project leadership roles
- Proven success delivering and scaling enterprise analytical platforms
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies; certification (CSM, PMP, etc.) is a plus
- Deep understanding of the application development lifecycle and production support
- Experience managing third-party vendors and outsourced development teams
- Sharp attention to detail, outstanding project management skills, and the ability to navigate ambiguity with confidence
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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.