About the company

Albertsons Companies is at the forefront of the revolution in retail. With a fixation on innovation and building culture, our team is rallying our company around a unique vision: forging a retail winner that is admired for national strength, deep roots in the communities we serve, and a team that has passion for food and delivering great service.

Albertsons is one of the largest retail employers, providing approximately 300,000 jobs across 2,200 stores, 22 distribution centers, 20 food and beverage plants and various support offices. We operate in 34 states and the District of Columbia under the Albertsons banner, as well as Safeway, Tom Thumb, Jewel Osco, Shaw’s, and many more recognizable names.

What you will be doing

Albertsons Companies’ Supply Chain team has a need for a Lead Software Engineer. This role will be an individual contributor role with hands-on engineering responsibilities to lead Development/Engineering and QA teams in delivering projects that pertain to the Supply Chain Warehouse Replenishment business functions.

The candidate will work closely with the IT Director and partner with its peer development team members, other cross-functional IT teams, business stakeholders and leadership team distributed across geographical locations including Pleasanton (CA), Plano (TX), Boise (ID) and Vancouver (BC, Canada).

Main responsibilities

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Provides technical leadership and guidance in architecture and design of solutions in Supply Chain Warehouse Replenishment domain
• Convert abstract business ideas into technical architectures, designs, and implementations
• Partner with other Engineering Leads and Architects in driving modular, services-oriented integration and solution architecture to implement a quality and stable solution.
• Develop and Deploy applications using organization's technology practices, standards and procedures, including adherence to software design, development and code reviews, as well as security and DevOps/infrastructure standards.
• Define and create reusable application components/patterns from a business and technology perspective.
• Research marketplace for programming trends when required and work with development practices team to standardize them for the project or team use.
• Analyze business processes, fit-gap analysis, inefficiencies, and risks to determine appropriate process and system design.
• Optimize and streamline business process with technical solutions.
• Use Agile SCRUM to deliver solutions with high level of flexibility and adaptability.
• Lead troubleshooting and root cause determination and proactively identify opportunities to fix issues
• Coordinate releases, user acceptance testing with Albertsons project teams, third party application vendors, and business stakeholders
• Responsible for leading and mentoring distributed technical teams (on-shore, off-shore, and near-shore) through all stages of the software development lifecycle.
• Foster a culture of innovation in the team and encourage creative solutions
• Develop strong working relationships at various levels throughout the business and IT community to ensure overall project satisfaction
• Determine and implement the most efficient and cost-effective solution
  

What we are searching for

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of hands-on architecture, design, programming, and implementation experience (OOAD, Java EE, Web Services Technologies, Microservice architecture SOAP/REST) using Open JDK, Spring Framework
• 5+ years of experience of development experience with diverse integration technologies and platforms such as IBM DataStage, IIB, IBM Sterling, Oracle SOA suite is a must.
• 5+ years of experience with RDBMS databases like Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Teradata.
• 5+ years of Supply Chain applications development experience is a plus
• 3+ years of overall BI architecture, including ETL processes, EDW, Azure data lakes, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Bricks.
• 2+ years’ experience in high-frequency messaging/event streaming platform (MQ, Kafka).
• 2+ years of experience in application development, capacity planning, systems performance analysis, optimization and running apps in public cloud platforms (Microsoft Azure OR GCP).
• Experience in UI/Web Development (JavaScript, CSS, ReactJS, AngularJS, and/or jQuery).
• Middleware experience with Tomcat and WebLogic
• Experience in CI/CD and deployment processes and tools (Jenkins, AKS, Maven, Git).
• Strong knowledge of UNIX and Windows operating systems.
• Experienced in designing and developing Microservices applying Reactive patterns.
• Strong ability to visualize the solution at higher level of abstraction using patterns before getting into low-level details.
• Strong ability to decompose business requirements to a technical solution with high-level UML diagrams using design patterns and low-level class diagrams
• Significant experience with the full software development lifecycle and software development methodologies (Agile, Iterative development).
• Results oriented with an ability to work in team and individual contributor work environments.
  

What it is like at Albertsons?

Albertsons Culture Principles

Compassion : We always treat each other with kindness and respect

Team : We always support and recognize each other

Inclusive : We always value everyone’s perspective

Learning : We always strive to grow and develop ourselves and others

Competitive : We always act with integrity to win over the customer

Ownership : We always take actions to drive our success