Senior Manager, Data Platform Engineering - 12-month contract

Come make your difference in communities across Canada, where authenticity, trust and making connections is valued – as we shape the future of Canadian retail, together. Our unique position as one of the country's largest employers, coupled with our commitment to positively impact the lives of all Canadians, provides our colleagues a range of opportunities and experiences to help Canadians Live Life Well®.

At Loblaw Companies Limited, we succeed through collaboration and commitment and set a high bar for ourselves and those around us. Whether you are just starting your career, re-entering the workforce, or looking for a new job, this is where you belong. 

We are a highly collaborative, agile work environment, so the ideal candidate would demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills and excellent technical depth. The successful candidate will be passionate about data and have a strong foundation of data management concepts and engineering standard methodologies.

Are you a Senior Data Engineering Manager or lead architect who is focused on building end to end solutions? Do you want to be a recognized inspiring leader in cloud technologies, data warehousing and related business metrics for enterprises and Canada’s largest retailer? Can you conduct strategic planning of an organization’s data platform maturity with a focus of fulfilling business requirements around cost, scalability, and flexibility of the platform? Can you create and work with large and complex data platform? If you Love Your Data and enjoy solving sophisticated technical problems and want to Love your career, then this could be the job for you!

You will be an active hands-on contributor to the development of our data platform that powers our Reporting, Data Analytics and AI capabilities, reporting to the Director, Data Platform Engineering, the incumbent will be responsible for providing guidance and technical leadership to a team of software and data platform engineers. We are looking for thoughtful, nice, and curious team members to help bring our Data & Analytics game to the next level. This is an exciting time to join our team – We are changing the game in a big way!

What You'll Do:

• Champion in writing reliable, reusable, and scalable code with thorough understanding of OOD principles
• Lead architecture, design and development of end-to-end Cloud based solutions supporting data integration, data ingestion, data observability, and data fulfilment, as well as real-time streaming and batch data pipelines.
• Managing software engineers, providing support, and coaching to direct reports through agile software development life cycle.
• Advocate for the highest standards of technical and operational excellence. Challenge assumptions to improve existing designs. Ensure we're building the best scalable product.
• Partner with product owners and other technical leaders on roadmap planning, sizing, and estimates.
• Enforce and maintain best practices and documentation of data framework, including roadmap planning, cross-team coordination, code reviews, presentations.
• Attract and nurture talent, mentor and develop a world-class engineering team.

What You'll Bring:

• University degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or related field.
• People management experience and ability to build and develop a highly functional team
• Tenured experience in software engineering, OO programming or data analysis.
• Strong experience with SQL and query optimization for relational or NoSQL databases
• Capability to take initiative, multi-task, and work in a fast-paced environment, collaborating closely with all levels cross the enterprise
• A great teammate and self-starter, strong detail orientation is critical in this role
• Experience working with Cloud data platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (Dataflow, Big Query, Airflow) preferred.
• Experience with Data Lake and Big Data Technologies (Hadoop, Hive) preferred.

What Loblaw Offers You

We offer flexibility and balance, and an environment that sets you up for success no matter where your workspace is located.

Here, you will find a phenomenal team to help you achieve your goals as you help us achieve ours! Work in our fast-paced, exciting Technology environment, helping our stores, colleagues, and customers every day.

Loblaw colleagues also enjoy:

• Work Perks Program
• On-site GoodLife Fitness, Basketball & Volleyball courts, Ice Rink, Groceries delivered to work via PC Express, Dry-Cleaning services (1PCC Office)
• Tuition Reimbursement & Online Learning
• Competitive compensation, Pension & Benefits
• Colleague Discount Program
• Paid Vacation

If you’re up to the challenge, then we would love to hear from you. Apply today, and get the process started.

At Loblaw, we respect the environment, source products with integrity and make a positive difference in the community. Our CORE Values – Care, Ownership, Respect and Excellence – guide all our decision-making and come to life through our Blue Culture. We offer our colleagues progressive careers, comprehensive training, flexibility, and other competitive benefits – these are some of the many reasons why we are one of Canada’s Top Employers.

Loblaw recognizes Canada's diversity as a source of national pride and strength. We have made it a priority to reflect our nation’s evolving diversity in the products we sell, the people we hire, and the culture we create in our organization. At Loblaw, we celebrate diversity where differences are valued and supported. Commitment to being an equal opportunity employer is a priority to us, and we encourage people from all backgrounds and identities to apply to our jobs.

Accommodation in the recruitment, assessment, and hiring process is available upon request for applicants with disabilities.

We thank all candidates for their interest but please note, those candidates who meet the minimum requirements for the position will be contacted.

Our commitment to Sustainability and Social Impact is an essential part of the way we do business, and we focus our attention on areas where we can have the greatest impact. Our approach to sustainability and social impact is based on three pillars – Environment, Sourcing and Community – and we are constantly looking for ways to demonstrate leadership in these important areas. Our CORE Values – Care, Ownership, Respect and Excellence – guide all our decision-making and come to life through our Blue Culture. We offer our colleagues progressive careers, comprehensive training, flexibility, and other competitive benefits – these are some of the many reasons why we are one of Canada’s Top Employers, Canada’s Best Diversity Employers, Canada’s Greenest Employers & Canada’s Top Employers for Young People.

If you are unsure whether your experience matches every requirement above, we encourage you to apply anyway. We are looking for varied perspectives which include diverse experiences that we can add to our team.

We have a long-standing focus on diversity, equity and inclusion because we know it will make our company a better place to work and shop. We are committed to creating accessible environments for our colleagues, candidates and customers. Requests for accommodation due to a disability (which may be visible or invisible, temporary or permanent) can be made at any stage of application and employment. We encourage candidates to make their accommodation needs known so that we can provide equitable opportunities.  
 
Please Note:
Candidates who are 18 years or older are required to complete a criminal background check. Details will be provided through the application process.

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