Job Description

At Loblaw Digital, we know that our customers expect the best from us. Whether that means building the best, most innovative online shopping experiences, or designing an app that will impact the lives of people across the country, we\'re up for the challenge. Loblaw Digital is the team responsible for building and operating the online businesses of Canada\'s largest and most successful retailer. Based in downtown Toronto, we are an entrepreneurial, fast-paced, and collaborative team working towards transforming the way Canadians shop by creating leading eCommerce experiences in the online grocery shopping, beauty, pharmacy, loyalty, and apparel spaces, and we\'re only just getting started! To achieve these goals, we are looking for talented and passionate individuals who want to collaborate and solve challenging problems and make significant and lasting impact on Canadians.

The impact you\'ll make

As a technical leader, you will assist the team in building our Retail Media Platform, you will be a member of the Retail Media Leadership Team with responsibility for setting our advertising product vision, growing and leading the retail media product team and ensuring that we are releasing features that meet the needs of our Advertisers and Loblaw Media sales & operations team.

You should have extensive experience designing and building microservices on the cloud, mobile productivity applications, excellent communication skills, and a drive to make a significant impact in the retail media team. 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.

Working closely with the VP Technology, and acting as a member of the technology leadership team, you will ensure that the platform for the rewards program 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 of technical leads and developers, focusing on continuous improvement, software excellence, and maintaining 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 web and mobile 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.
• Scaling our digital solutions to serve millions of customers daily.
• 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?

• You have 2+ years of experience in a senior management or director level role, preferably in an Media business, Adtech, 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 micro-services architecture.
• Excellent understanding of the agile principles and methodologies.
• Strong understanding of the retail industry as it relates to eCommerce.
• 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 all levels of the organization.
• Demonstrated ability to drive to clear action and ownership among large development teams.
• Eye for talent and a history of building high performance development teams
• A true leader - someone who enables and inspires their team to do their best work
• 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.
• Decisive, confident, and experience with influencing others.
• Strong sense of urgency and personal commitment.

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How you\'ll succeed

At Loblaw Digital, we seek great people to continually strengthen our culture. We believe great people model our values, are authentic, build trust and make connections. We\'re able to keep innovating because our colleagues are passionate about their work and excited about the future of eCommerce. You will get to work with some of the best digital minds and will have the support of world class technologies to craft products our customers will love!

Loblaw Digital 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. Accommodation is available upon request for applicants with disabilities in the recruitment and assessment process and when hired. In addition, we believe that compliance with laws is about doing the right thing. Upholding the law is part of our Code of Conduct - it reinforces what our customers and stakeholders expect of us.

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