Job Description

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 131,000 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 Manager Azure. This role is based out of our main office in Stellarton, NS.Reporting to the Director of Integrations and CCoEs, the Manager, Azure Development, will be an innovation focused business and technology leader with experience in driving an agile and business outcome focused delivery culture - with high quality project and service delivery. They will be responsible for leading a high performance and key delivery team during a time of high transformation.They will bring an effective delivery practice and leadership to the technology and services that the team supports day in day out, ensuring the team adopts a customer centric technology experience to all staff for the full range of IT support Services as well as enabling self-service and automation for better service at lower cost across the entire company.Here\'s where you\'ll be focusing:As a Manager Azure with Sobeys, you will:

• Oversee the communication and adoption of best in class Delivery Methodologies supporting both large scale complex programs as well as simple rapid delivery projects.
• Establish and own a Product Management Methodology that ensures end-to-end product lifecycle quality through relevant standards, policies, and tools.
• Drive an Azure Development strategy that supports product and project initiatives through proper infrastructure, tooling, standards, architectures, and development skillsets.
• Establish DevOps strategies supporting the various product/development deployment models through proper tooling, environments, processes, policies, KPIs, and monitoring.
• Identify new methods and technologies leading to improvements in performance and cost.
• Continuously working on Increasing effectiveness of observability capabilities to manage our key services in a highly proactive and automated fashion.
• Drive employee engagement by providing leadership, coaching and team development.
• Initiate negotiations to establish agreements with vendors covering hardware / software support, scheduling installation and deployment services.
• Continuously assessing the team\'s effectiveness and efficiency. This includes:

• evaluating current systems, processes, resources, and technologies to identify areas for improvement.
• Staying abreast of emerging technologies, assessing their potential impact and benefits for your organization.
• Analyze, recommend and implement improvements and new digital adoption initiatives, ensuring the Operational support is ever improving and aligns to a customer / stores first approach. Examples are:

• Optimizing the value of existing assets using new methods
• Identifying and addressing the root cause of recurring issues.
• Identifying opportunities to automate tasks and reduce efforts
• Formulating engaging experiences for employees and customers.

#LI-HybridWhat you have to offer:Qualifications

• A persuasive and trusted advisor, who listens, learns, is curious, sees nuances, applies facts and data, and can articulate a compelling story in a clear and simple manner.
• Relentlessly focused on our customers, anticipating their needs, thinking about how to create value for them through our services.
• Known for your work in complex business environments, you bring people together to consider opportunities, evaluate risks and focus on delivering results.
• Summarize insights in a way that facilitates decision-making.
• Known for your ability to share a vision and gain support.
• Recognized for your demonstrated ability to build thoughtful and clear plans.
• Exceptional ability to drive Operational Excellence and putting the customer at the center of all processes.
• Proven critical thinking skills in complex analysis where errors in logic, judgment, and/or math are costly and difficult to reverse.
• Well-rounded interpersonal skills, naturally optimistic with high resiliency and high sense of urgency.

Skills

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and proven ability to work effectively with all organizational levels.
• Fosters and builds a collaborative working relationship with various stakeholders within IT and outside of IT Operations.
• Experience with Devops, Azure APIs/APIM, Cloud Based Application Creation required.
• Good working knowledge of IT architecture and standards preferred.

Experience

• More than 5-10 years of experience in IT Azure Development
• At least 3 years\' experience at Manager level
• Project Management, Business Relationship Management, IT Service Management or Enterprise Architecture experience a bonus.
• Organizational Change management experience a bonus.
• More than 5 years of people management experience preferred.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor\'s or Master\'s degree in computer science, business, or a related discipline.
• ITIL Certification preferred.

Note - All offers are subject to the completion of a satisfactory criminal background checkAt 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.

Sobeys