Tech Lead - DXP

Requisition ID: 187816
Career Group: Corporate Office Careers
Job Category: Technology Solutions - Marketing
Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%
Job Type: Full-Time

Country: Canada (CA)
Province: Ontario; Nova Scotia
City: Mississauga / Stellarton
Location: Foord St. 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.

Job Title - Tech Lead – DXP

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Tech Lead - DXP to drive the development and execution of enterprise web and mobile applications using Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), RedHat (ARO), React, React Native, and Next.js. The ideal candidate must have a solid understanding of frontend/backend development methodologies, can effectively lead a development team through complex and time sensitive mandates, and can provide thought leadership on how to optimize our DevOps pipeline, ensuring best practices, and optimizing performance and scalability.

Key Responsibilities

1. Technical Leadership & Development

• Work closely with Solution Architects to ensure alignment with overall technical strategy.
• Guide the team in implementing Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), with deep expertise in AEM Sites, Assets, Workflows, and Headless CMS.
• Lead the development and architecture of web and mobile applications using React, React Native, and Next.js.
• Provide hands-on coding and mentorship to developers on best practices, component architecture, and performance optimization.

2. DevOps & CI/CD

• Work with DevOps teams to ensure automated testing, CI/CD pipeline integration, and cloud deployments. Optimize build processes and release cycles for mobile apps in the App Store and Google Play Store.

3. Performance Optimization & Best Practices

• Optimize application performance, security, and scalability across different devices and platforms.
• Improve mobile performance through efficient state management, offline support, and native module optimizations.

4. Code Quality & Governance

• Enforce code quality, maintainability, and security standards across all projects.
• Conduct code reviews, technical deep dives, and troubleshooting to ensure bug-free and high-performance applications.
• Maintain technical documentation and contribute to internal best practices guidelines.

Operations & People Management –

• Manage the day-to-day product activities of the team and integrates work into product backlogs. Ensure proactive and reactive problem management is driven across all the delivery teams. Provide advice and lessons learned, and proactively helps teams improve their ways of working and supporting tools (e.g., Jira). May lead teams in Daily Scrums.

Delivery–

• Advice and lead product teams on Agile practices, processes, and overall approach to executing product delivery quickly and with quality. Also, leads and coaches the team in DevOps methods and delivery. Raise the performance of product teams through continuous improvement and meeting facilitation.

Continuous Improvement –

• Drive improvement using a hypothesis; experimentation; measure; knowledge sharing; and ensure teams are actively seeking out opportunities for improvement. Contribute technical expertise in service of continuously improving applications across their lifecycle and provide ongoing maintenance and support to adapt to changing business requirements. Involved in Release planning & Management.

Stakeholder Engagement & Support –

• Engage with relevant stakeholders in end-to-end service delivery lifecycle. Ensure the appropriate signoffs are obtained at the correct stage (e.g., Architecture, IT security, Infrastructure and Product teams etc.), appropriate operational and support requirements are maintained.

What you have to offer:

Key Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of experience in frontend development & technical leadership.
• Strong understanding for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), including AEM Sites, Assets, Workflows, and Headless CMS.
• Solid understanding of React, React Native, Next.js, and TypeScript.
• Strong knowledge of RedHat (ARO), GraphQL, REST APIs, Firebase, and backend integration. Proficiency in CI/CD, DevOps, automated testing, and cloud deployments (Azure).
• Strong debugging, performance optimization, and problem-solving skills. Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Solid understanding of the infrastructure and application landscape.
• Proven track record in Service, Demand, Change and Release Management. Excellent understanding and awareness of ITIL processes and tools.
• Expert knowledge of concepts and tools behind the design of the relevant area of expertise e.g., business processes or systems and underlying information technologies.
• Business acumen coupled with good understanding and awareness of the technology enabling the Team’s business functional area.
• Negotiation Skills.
  

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.

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.