Senior Application Developer

Requisition ID: 189372

Career Group: Corporate Office Careers

Job Category: IT Integration & COEs

Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%

Job Type: Full-Time

Country: Canada (CA)

Province: Nova Scotia; Alberta; Ontario

City: Stellarton / Calgary / Mississauga

Location: Foord St. Office, Calgary Office, Tahoe 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?

Sobeys is full of exciting opportunities, and we are always looking for bright new talent to join our team! We currently have a full-time opportunity for a Senior Application Developer. This role can be based out of one our main offices including: Stellarton, NS; Mississauga, ON; Calgary, AB.

Here’s Where You’ll Be Focusing

As a Senior Application Developer with Sobeys, you will:

• Identify functional and technical solutions to meet requirements.
• Ensure the development of detailed functional, technical and operational specifications for delivery of recommended solutions.
• Translate user requirements into solution design for development and implementation of business technology 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.
• Capture and define technical and operational requirements for solutions.
• Provide expert knowledge of a particular architecture and can discuss how the solution’s specific features, characteristics, functionality and design will meet business requirements.
• Ensure all documentation is created, up to date and correct before solutions or changes are implemented into production.
• Ensure management is informed of progress, status and issues of delivery team activities
• 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.
• With assistance, provide estimates for all aspects of work and work to deadline.
• 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.
• Resolve problems with increasingly less supervision.
• Develop or support software application solutions in a project team/task-based environment.
• Provide Tier 2 or Tier 3 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.
  
  

What You Have To Offer

Your experience and resume will show us:

• An Undergraduate Degree and a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience or a DEC and a minimum of 7 years relevant experience
• Experience with developing Azure applications using either containers, data factory, or functions
• Experience with Azure DevOps
• Experience in C# programming language
• Experience in CI/CD Pipelines
• Experience in building automated test harness
• Experience in Monitoring and Observability capabilities
• Strong experience in software engineering and solution delivery methodologies.
• Ability to be flexible and adaptable in learning and understanding new technologies.
• Ability to communicate effectively.
• Ability to conduct research into software-related issues and products.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a team environment.
• Experience with agile and lean methodologies.
• Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Strong experience in working with business in leveraging technology to meet business goals and requirements.
• Strong written communication and presentation skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Strong team leadership skills and work ethic.
• Ability to conduct research into software-related issues and products.
• Ability to be highly self-motivated and focused.
• Ability to pay keen attention to detail.
• ABAP Experience in an SAP Retail Environment with Object Oriented Development an asset.
• Experience with ERP migration to SAP HANA an asset.
  
  

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.

Some websites share our job opportunities and may provide salary estimates without our knowledge. These estimates are based on similar jobs and postings for general comparison, but these numbers are not provided by our organization nor monitored for accuracy.

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.