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Albertsons Companies is one of the largest food and drug retailers with 2,300+ stores. The Albertsons Companies family of brands includes some of the most prominent brands in food retailing, with a growing base of loyal shoppers. Thanks to the professionalism, diversity, spirit and friendliness of our people, we have locations across the U.S.
The Information Technology Department has an opening for a Digital Tech Lead. This position is located in Pleasanton, California.Position Purpose Albertsons Companies' IT Digital Customer Experience team has a need for a Digital Tech Lead. 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 Digital Customer Experience and eCommerce/Grocery Delivery business functions. The candidate will work closely with the IT Director or Manager of Digital Customer Experience, 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, Phoenix, AZ and Manila, Philippines.Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:- Provide expertise and design solutions for consumer facing web applications as well as system integration with internal systems and with external vendors.
- Provide technical leadership in design, development, and testing of business solutions.
- Prepare and present potential technical solutions and advise the business on approach and tradeoffs.
- Work with scrum masters, product owners, UI developers, back-end developers QA engineers and subject matter experts to understand the complex technological system to produce integrated end-to-end solution options.
- Communicate solution approaches to enterprise architects, project teams, leadership, and other stakeholders.
- Keep up-to-date on cutting edge technologies like Cloud, APIs, Machine Learning, IoT, Mobile, Social and Big Data etc.
- Works with Solution Architects and Engineers to identify and mitigate architectural risks and issues across programs and projects.
- Ensures that the solution architecture and design align with the Target Architecture for the project.
- Ensuring adherence to architecture standards and processes.
- Ensuring that the solution meets the functional and non-functional requirements approved by the business.
- Leverages existing and participates in the creation and augmentation of new and existing reusable service components and patterns.
- Defines the structure of systems, their interfaces, and the principles that guide its organization, software design and implementation.
- Write technical requirements, stories, task break-up at the right level.
- Ensures Integration Requirements & Designs are supported by standard Safeway Development Patterns and if required augments them if new patterns emerge.
- Defines and supports reusable application components from a business and technology perspective.
- Contributor to application development principles and patterns.
- Partners with Enterprise, Application, and other Lead Architects in driving modular, services-oriented integration and solutions architectures.
- Able to provide coding and technical direction to less experienced staff or develops highly complex original code.
- Lead projects, provide technical leadership, coach and mentor team members.
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- 4-year degree (Computer Science, Information Systems or relational functional field) and/or equivalent combination of education or work experience
- 10+ years of hands-on programming and integration experience (Java, J2EE/Spring, JavaScript & REST APIs)
- Significant experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies is required
- Experience in search technologies, e.g. Elastic, Solr, Apache Lucene is required
- Experience in the e-commerce domain, with deep understanding of product search and browse, catalog and master data management, pertaining to Retail/Grocery industry is required
- Experience in Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform or AWS is required
- Deep familiarity with DevOps processes and CI/CD tools/processes is required
- Experience in application containerization with Dockers/Kubernetes is strongly preferred
- Experience in No-SQL and in-memory DB (MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis) is strongly preferred
- Experience in high-performance and high-frequency data streaming (using Kafka, Storm etc.) and handling large volume of batch data (using ETL technologies) is strongly preferred
- Experience in Jira, Confluence is strongly preferred
- Strong understanding of architecture/design patterns and best practices
- Strong emphasis on Testing, Quality and Automation
- Strong ability to decompose a broad level business requirements into technical implementation
- Ability to mentor and guide development team members
- Strong organization skills with good interpersonal skills and a customer service-oriented attitude
- Strong experience building consumer facing solutions and building applications on the public cloud
- Experience in an agile environment
- Deep knowledge of scalability, security, and maintainability of high-volume Internet applications
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
- Ability to communicate and drive highly complex technology solutions to broad audiences within and outside of IT
- Ability to define solutions from very high-level business ideas
- Ability to work independently
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