Director, Software Development

Loblaw Digital est l’équipe responsable de la construction et de l’exploitation des activités numériques pour le plus grand et le plus prospère détaillant au Canada. Nous créons des solutions de commerce électronique de pointe réactives, dont le site Cliquez et ramassez de Loblaws, qui offre une expérience de courses alimentaires en ligne novatrice. Nous avons également mis au point, et exploitons maintenant, le site primé JoeFresh.com, ainsi que l’application pour iPad et iPhone. Nous sommes établis dans le centre-ville de Toronto et fonctionnons comme une jeune entreprise, mais disposons des ressources d’une entreprise beaucoup plus importante. Nous sommes une équipe sympathique d’entrepreneurs en constante évolution qui travaille en collaboration en vue de transformer la façon dont les Canadiens magasinent.

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As a technical leader, you will assist the team in building, improving, and maintaining a world class digital ecosystem. You will roll up your sleeves to lead a team of engineers and software development managers in designing, developing, integrating, and testing services and platforms.

You should have extensive experience designing and building microservices on the cloud, Web applications, excellent communication skills, and a drive to make a significant impact in the ways Canadians’ shop. Expect to take ownership of technical vision and strategy, to take the lead on key architectural decisions, to mentor a growing team, to hold high standards in operation excellence and production availability.

Acting as a member of the technology leadership team, you will ensure that the platform for our eCommerce solution scales to meet ambitious growth targets for the business while addressing the functional and non-functional requirements. You will lead and mentor a talented team, focusing on continuous improvement, engineering excellence, while running a high performing development organization. In addition to our internal team, you will also be accountable for managing our outsourced development partners across onshore and offshore teams.

What you'll do:

• Leading and mentoring a high performing team in a rapid development environment.

• Ensuring consistent, and timely delivery, of new digital experiences across multiple web interfaces while driving good application design, scalability, development velocity, predictability, and quality.

• Ability to apply the right development approach – agile or blended – based on project and business needs and effectively coordinating the implementations across internal, partner and vendor teams.

• Communicate project status and issues in a concise and accurate manner to executives.

• Collaborate with multiple business and technical teams to define and deliver complex features.

• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints

• Plan and manage multiple parallel projects.

• Work with the product management team to continuously improve our product development methodologies.

• Recruit and retain top development talent

Does this sound like you?

• At least 1 year of experience in a Director, Software Development level role, preferably in the retail digital eCommerce business, and you’re looking for a new challenge.

• You’re always looking to support your team, to grow your next leaders both from a technical perspective, as well as communication skills.

• You’re a developer at heart. You’re passionate about writing good software, and you’re experienced in making wise tradeoffs.

• You love to get a group of talented engineers together to solve difficult problems. You wish you had more time to code, but you recognize that you now can have higher-leverage contributions for your team.

• You are always learning and growing. Not one to rest on your laurels, you actively seek out things outside your comfort zone.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Computer Science required, advanced degree preferred.

• Excellent understanding of the cloud technology stack and microservices architecture.

• Excellent understanding of the agile principles and methodologies.

• Good understanding of both front end and back end technologies.

• Strong interpersonal skills including ability to work in a cross-functional environment and communicate with influence at all levels of the organization

• History of ability to driving clear action and ownership among large development teams.

• A true leader – someone who enables and inspires their team to do their best work and demonstrates a history of building high performance development teams

• Hands-on technologist who can dive deep and hold their own with senior developers building a scalable product.

• Demonstrated ability to harness the power of technology and people to accomplish big things.

• Strong sense of urgency and personal commitment.

Comment Réussir:

Chez Loblaw Digital, nous recherchons toujours des personnes formidables pour continuellement renforcer notre culture.  Nous croyons que les gens formidables façonnent nos valeurs, sont authentiques, bâtissent la confiance et créent des liens. 

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