Senior Director, Application Engineering

15 hours ago

Markham, Canada Pet Valu Full time
h3>Senior Director, Application Engineering

Location: Markham, Ontario

Job Description:

Job Summary

Reporting to the Sr. VP Corporate Technology Solutions, the Sr. Director Application Engineering will be responsible for leading and shaping the organization's strategic technology direction by overseeing and optimizing the software development, quality assurance release initiatives. Your primary responsibility will be to develop and release custom software applications that align with the company's overall business objectives, ensuring a scalable, efficient, and secure software development that supports the organization's growth and innovation. This leadership role requires a strong blend of technical expertise, strategic thinking, and effective communication to collaborate with cross-functional teams and drive impactful results.

Compassion:

  1. Work collaboratively with business partners to ensure key initiatives drive results and obtain financial objectives by providing meaningful, proactive financial analysis and identifying risks and opportunities.
  2. Provide leadership and direction to the team by fostering a high-performance team environment that instills best practices and skills, critical and strategic thinking and pro-active problem-solving.

Expertise:

  1. Ensures that internal controls to mitigate risks around financial information are in place and operating effectively.
  2. Understanding of Enterprise Architecture within a retail IT landscape.
  3. Provide accurate and timely architectural recommendations to management for decision making purposes by analyzing current systems and processes to understand the system.
  4. Improve the Technology process and through analytics, automation and continuous improvement of processes.
  5. Gather and analyze technical information for designing new systems and changes to existing systems.
  6. Apply in depth technical expertise to guide and direct others in their area of technical responsibility.
  7. Define and build detailed technical solutions to support complex application development projects.
  8. Create system design specifications and build to those specifications that support complex project assignments.
  9. May act as lead developer in the development of the technical design documents and provide oversight to external developers.
  10. Staff and manage development, QA, DevOps, Release Management, and documentation.
  11. Introduce automation capabilities into QA that eliminate manual regression testing and reduce overall testing time.
  12. Define SDLC process quality initiatives based on release quality metrics analysis to drive continuous quality improvements.
  13. Collaborate with senior leadership and business stakeholders to understand their requirements and develop solutions that optimize business processes and support future growth.
  14. Provide technical leadership, guide and mentor other IT associates on best practices and development techniques.

Skills, Experience, Education, Certifications

  1. University graduation and minimum of 5 years' experience in managing application engineering teams.
  2. Strong leadership and management capabilities (10+ years’ experience leading a team).
  3. Track record of continuous operational process improvement and implementation.
  4. Demonstrates a commitment to continuous learning (e.g. user groups, blogs, conferences, community awareness, and next generation tooling).
  5. Demonstrated success in building highly scalable APIs / backend platforms / distributed systems / data access layers, etc.
  6. Experience leading and coaching Agile teams; advocating and developing Agile values and principles.
  7. Thorough understanding of distributed technologies, public cloud technologies, and data structures and algorithms.
  8. Extensive experience in BI Application and related technologies.
  9. Project management skills.
  10. MS Office Product Experience.
  11. Comprehensive understanding of the Systems Development Life Cycle, as applied to projects of increasing size and complexity.

Technologies Used

  1. Java, C/AL, SQL, DataWeave, JavaScript.
About Us

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