Applications Developer

Requisition ID : 184769

Career Group : Corporate Office Careers

Job Category : IT Integration & COEs

Travel Requirements : 0 - 10%

Job Type : Full-Time

Country : Canada (CA)

Province : Nova Scotia

City : Stellarton

Location : Foord St. 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.

Ready to Make an impact?

Sobeys is full of exciting opportunities, and we are always looking for bright new talent to join our team! We currently have a full-time opportunity for a Applications Developer. This role is based out of our office in : Stellarton, NS.

Here’s where you’ll be focusing :

As an Application Developer with Sobeys you will :

• Identify functional and technical solutions to meet requirements and ensure the development of detailed functional, technical and operational specifications for delivery of recommended solutions.
• Translate user requirements into solution design for development and implementation of business technology solutions.
• Conduct design and code reviews to ensure the solution delivered conforms to IT and team standards and quality software delivery practices.
• Provide accurate estimates from analysis and design specifications for yourself and other team members to work on.
• Capture and define technical and operational requirements for solutions.
• Provide expert knowledge of a particular architecture and can discuss how the solution’s specific features, characteristics, functionality and design will meet business requirements.
• Ensure all documentation is created, up to date and correct before solution or changes are implemented into production.
• Ensure management is informed of progress, status and issues of delivery team activities
• Code, test, and analyze software programs and applications. This includes researching, documenting, and modifying software and specifications throughout the system development life cycle.
• Analyze and amend software to correct errors in a timely and accurate fashion, and provide status reports where required.
• Determine the most effective program / configuration solution from technical specifications provided by an experienced developer or business analyst.
• With assistance, provide estimates for all aspects of work and work to deadline.
• Create unit test plans with detailed test cases and consistently write and test solutions without errors, to estimate and conforming to best practices.
• Assist in the preparation and documentation of program specifications.
• Develop or support software application solutions in a project team / task based environment.
• Provide user, operational and system documentation for implementation.

LI-Hybrid

What you have to offer :

Your experience and resume will show us :

Note - All offers are subject to the completion of a satisfactory criminal background check

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.

Some websites share our job opportunities and may provide salary estimates without our knowledge. These estimates are based on similar jobs and postings for general comparison, but these numbers are not provided by our organization nor monitored for accuracy.

We will consider factors such as your working location, work experience and skills as well as internal equity, and market conditions to ensure the selected candidate is paid fairly and competitively. We look forward to discussing the specific compensation details relevant to this role with candidates who are selected to move forward in the recruitment process.

Our Total Rewards programs, for full-time teammates, goes well beyond your paycheque :

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.