Senior Manager, Data Engineering

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Come make your difference in communities across Canada, where authenticity, trust and making connections is valued - as we shape the future of Canadian retail, together. Our unique position as one of the country's largest employers, coupled with our commitment to positively impact the lives of all Canadians, provides our colleagues a range of opportunities and experiences to help Canadians Live Life Well®.

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Come work with a team that values diverse ideas, fosters a culture of inclusion and develops our talent from within. Loblaw Technology and Analytics gives you the chance to excel and helps you to strive for success in a big way. Keep reading to learn more!

Senior Manager, Data Engineering, Brampton, ON

At Loblaw, we are Food Lovers! We are committed to our Colleagues and Customers and work hard to create a culture that allows us to be our authentic selves while working as a Team. We know that clear communication, collaboration, and teamwork is the key to having a successful workplace.

As a key shared service across the group of companies, the Data Elevation team is a trusted partner in ensuring that our data is defined, secured, enhanced & reliable. We are focused on supporting the business to protect, grow, and improve its governance, data operations and results.

You will work with a team that values diverse ideas, prioritizes a culture of inclusion, and develops our talent from within. We hire business-minded and entrepreneurial people, who strive to learn and solve problems. As a technical Data Engineer, you will be required to develop and oversee the landing of 3rd party data, support with data governance tooling and work with the data engineering team on solutioning for data quality rules and requirements. We will fuel your curiosity with challenging work, hard-working colleagues, and creative learning resources. At every level, we champion leaders who influence and achieve results. By prioritizing people development, we incubate talent and thought leadership, which we can then apply across our businesses.

What You’ll Do:

• Design, develop and implement sustainable data engineering solutions.

• Drive excellence in data engineering processes for intelligent data solutions across data ingestions, data pipeline frameworks, data warehouse and data lake architectures using cloud platforms.

• Promote strong working relationships among the team and partners.

• Partner with data governance teams and platform teams to improve the tool implementations.

• Mentor and provide technical guidance to the team.

• Drive alignment to standard methodologies across the team.

• Promote simplification of processes and solutions to drive efficiency.

What you Bring:

• Proven experience in software engineering, data engineering, or related fields.

• Hands-on experience in building data engineering solutions, data pipelines, designing data.

• Understanding of data governance principles or worked extensively on a data governance platform.

• Good understanding of data lifecycle management and design patterns.

• Able to write code in python and scripts in SQL.

• Hands-on experience working in a cloud first environment.

• Be familiar with agile methodologies.

• Understanding of CI/CD principles and experience of deploying data pipelines/software in production environments.

• Good communication skills, and experience working with multiple partners/teams.

• Hands-on experience working on Google Cloud Platform services, and familiar with data governance tools such as Informatica, Collibra etc is nice to have.

What Loblaw Offers You

We offer flexibility and balance, and an environment that sets you up for success no matter where your workspace is located.

Here, you will find a great team to help you achieve your goals as you help us achieve ours! Work in our fast-paced, exciting Technology environment, helping our stores, colleagues and customers every day.

Loblaw colleagues also enjoy:

• Work Perks Program
• On-site GoodLife Fitness, Basketball & Volleyball courts, Ice Rink, Groceries delivered to work via PC Express, Dry Cleaning services (1PCC Office)
• Tuition Reimbursement & Online Learning
• Pension & Benefits
• Paid Vacation

If you’re up to the challenge, then we would love to hear from you. Apply today, and get the process started.

Loblaw 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. At Loblaw, we celebrate diversity and strive to build a culture of inclusion where differences are embraced, valued and supported. We are committed to being an equal opportunity employer and encourage people from all backgrounds and identities to apply to our jobs. Accommodation in the recruitment, assessment, and hiring process is available upon request for applicants with disabilities.

We thank all candidates for their interest but please note, those candidates who meet the minimum requirements for the position will be contacted.

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Our commitment to Sustainability and Social Impact is an essential part of the way we do business, and we focus our attention on areas where we can have the greatest impact. Our approach to sustainability and social impact is based on three pillars - Environment, Sourcing and Community - and we are constantly looking for ways to demonstrate leadership in these important areas. Our CORE Values - Care, Ownership, Respect and Excellence - guide all our decision-making and come to life through our Blue Culture. We offer our colleagues progressive careers, comprehensive training, flexibility, and other competitive benefits - these are some of the many reasons why we are one of Canada’s Top Employers, Canada’s Best Diversity Employers, Canada’s Greenest Employers & Canada’s Top Employers for Young People.

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.

Please Note:
Candidates who are 18 years or older are required to complete a criminal background check. Details will be provided through the application process.