Technical Product Lead - Toronto, Canada - Canadian Tire Corporation

Canadian Tire Corporation

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

What you'll do

We are looking for a Tech Lead who is motivated to provide technical ownership, direction, mentorship, and architectural context to deliver and sustain Merchandising technology solutions and platforms.

You will collaborate with team members across a wide variety of technical and non-technical disciplines (Product Owners, Architects, Business Systems Analysts, Developers and Quality Engineering Leads) to plan, design, implement, and sustain technology solutions for Canadian Tire's Merchandising teams.

You will work within an evolving set of best practices and patterns from multiple perspectives (performance, accessibility, sustainability, reusability), and lead the Merchandise Platforms Technology practice in support of the Merchandising ecosystem.

Review & assess technical feasibility of architectural designs.
Review technical design documentation with intermediate & senior developers.
Work with Architects to develop solutions in consideration of organizational risks (security, sensitive information, PCI) throughout lifecycle.
Work with senior developers and Architects to continually assess and evolve Canadian Tire's Merchandise Platforms technology architecture.
Review package dependencies within project initiatives.
Work with leads from other disciplines to assess 3rdparty libraries and packaged solutions for implementation.
Provide technical mentorship and training for developers.
Collaborate with external partner resources as needed.
Represent the Merchandise Technology Platform team in Agile planning sessions to provide highlevel estimates on impacts for road mapping from a technological aspect.
Facilitate implementation reviews, assess technical debt, and work with Product Owners to prioritize changes within the Continuous Delivery intake funnel.
Lead developer collaboration for solutions across squads.
Work with developers to build & execute training plans for development teams with the introduction of new technologies & patterns.

What you bring

Understanding of Retail Domain business processes (e.g. Merchandise Planning, Assortment, Sourcing, Pricing, Promotions).
3 + years experience in Azure Services, Technology, and deployment tools: Azure Service Bus, ADLS, Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure Functions, Azure Key vault, Azure DevOps, Azure SQL/ Cosmos DB, Azure Kubernetes, Azure Monitoring.
Experience with Development tools such as Eclipse, VSCode, Git, Postman, Web Inspector, Jira/Confluence.
Experienced working in medium to large teams in Agile Scrum/Kanban methodologies. Experience with SAFe Agile is an asset.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
Deep understanding of cloud patterns including observability, scalability, and fault tolerance.
Experience working with APIs.
Experience working with cloudnative technologies: Kubernetes clusters, dev portals and other cloud technologies.
Deep understanding of ELT/ETL tools including but not limited to Azure Data Factory.
Understanding of containerization.
Team Leadership through influence experienced in assessing and driving necessary actions to improve.
Able to develop and foster teamwork and facilitate team dynamics.

Strong communication skills

Able to propagate information promptly, clearly, and unambiguously.
Excellent problemsolving, organizational, and analytical skills, with the ability to coach and mentor fellow team members.
Skilled in building relationships and navigating through organizational layers.
Ability to scale thinking and analysis from strategic to detail and vice versa.
Executive presence; strong facilitation and presentation skills.
Conflict resolution and effective mediation and influencing skills.
Very strong customer and delivery focus.
You are laserfocused on serving the needs of the Merchandising Technology Platform, creating an environment where the team feels safe to learn and experiment.
You are assertive, with the confidence to be the voice of authority without having official authority not afraid to do what is best for the team.
You bring a highenergy and passionate outlook to the job and can influence those around you.
You can build a sense of trust and rapport that creates a comfortable and effective workplace.
You are comfortable questioning the status quo and looks for ways to work more effectively.

Hybrid
We value flexibility.

We have adopted a hybrid work model whereby employees use a combination of working in office and virtually in service of outcomes.

Each leader is empowered to decide what work is best achieved in person based on the unique needs of their team.

About Us
Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited ("CTC") is one of Canada's most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, 1,700 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with