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.
What you'll do
- Have the obsession to drive great digital experiences for Loblaw by growing and leading a high performing technology team in an agile development environment that values releasing often, testing and iterating
- Ensuring consistent and timely delivery of new features while driving velocity, predictability and quality
- Develop, recruit and retain, top engineering talent
- Scaling our eCommerce solutions to serve millions of customers daily
- Communicate project status and issues in a concise and accurate manner to executives and stakeholders
- Collaborate with multiple business and technical teams to define and deliver complex customer facing solutions
- 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
- Shape the future of the Loblaw Digital Technology Organization as a member of the leadership team
Does this sound like you?
- 10 years of progressive experience including at least one in a senior management or director level role preferably in a high-volume, complex, consumer facing eCommerce environment
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Computer Science required, advanced degree preferred
- Excellent understanding of Cloud Native, Web, Mobile and Continuous Delivery technologies, especially as they relate to eCommerce
- Excellent understanding of the Agile and Scrum methodologies.
- Strong inter-personal 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 amongst 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
- Decisive, confident, and experience with influencing others with a strong sense of urgency, accountability and ownership
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!
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.
