Job Description

Job Description

Albertsons Companies is one of the largest food and drug retailers with 2,300+ stores. The Albertsons Companies family of brands includes some of the most prominent brands in food retailing, with a growing base of loyal shoppers. Thanks to the professionalism, diversity, spirit, and friendliness of our people, we have locations across the U.S.

The Health & Wellness/Pharmacy Engineering team supports the entire technology needs across our pharmacies, pharmacists & our customers. We are actively looking for an Engineering Director who can help transform our capabilities in this space. This position is in Pleasanton, California.

This senior level team leader is primarily responsible for leading all engineering initiatives in health & wellness, while ensuring alignment on delivery methodologies, program tracking, budgets & staffing metrics management, compliance IT architecture and technology directions.

Position Purpose

Help to build Albertsons next generation health and wellness platforms and deliver on a multi-year roadmap that delivers new and transformational wellness experiences that is integrated in our grocery business. Albertson's Companies is looking for people who are interested in re-imagining the pharmacy experience by harnessing the power of digital technologies. The Health & Wellness Engineering Manager will work closely with Product, Agency, Business, UX, Data teams and more to define and govern the program plan and tracking delivery of initiatives to committed timelines.

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Design and Development

* Have a strong domain knowledge in pharmacy or health and wellness industry. Relate to pharmacy business leaders and pharmacy operations team in understanding vision, strategy, and operational pain points.
* Ability to provide direction to architects, product managers & technical leads to solve and create clear requirements, KPIs in fast moving, high level objectives and mission statements
* Assume technical leadership for technology solutions that integrate internally with our digital products (web, iOS, Android Mobile, digital marketing and more) and core pharmacy systems, lookout for opportunities for platform improvement, and work with engineers to scale our production systems.
* Identify and lead technical initiatives to build clean, robust, and performant systems in collaboration with solution, enterprise, and security architecture.
* Contribute to the design of software architecture and development of new features and functionalities in the stack with full automation in partnership with DevOps and Site Engineering/Reliability teams
* Support-what-you-build, including monitoring, performance tuning, and responding to incidents.

Leadership

* Staff and lead a team of engineers responsible for our Digital products and roadmap.
* Lead, coach, and mentor technical leads, developers, testers etc.
* Mentor software engineers from diverse backgrounds to nurture a culture of ownership, learning, automation, re-use, and engineering efficiency using software design patterns and industry best practices.
* Manage both inhouse and large system integration vendors to delivery to outcomes.
* Communicate with clarity, precision and consciousness to VPs, SVPs on program status, delivery risks and proactively identity issues to be resolved.
* Instill a culture of automation, re-use and engineering efficiency.

Drive large-scale projects.

* Collaborate with cross-functional team members from Product, Design, Program Management to define and deliver against quarterly and annual roadmap objectives.
* Collaborate closely with core pharmacy system leads partners to understand their APIs, requirements for integration and lead fast paced projects and stay on top of API and platform updates of core pharmacy systems.
* Collaborate closely with product managers to prioritize and refine backlog of initiatives and epics
* Handle planning and breaking down large projects into milestones and identifying risks and dependencies.
* Work with program managers and manage project managers to track & manage schedule, budgets, resourcing & communicate project status

Qualifications:

* 10+ years of eCommerce (Java, J2EE, Angular/react/JQuery, Java, REST etc.) and mobile (Kotlin, IOS, Android, Swift, Objective C etc) development experience, with experience building complex digital consumer within health and wellness and desirably pharmacy domain
* 5+ years of leadership experience in team leadership and technology management
* Ideally exposure to some of the supporting pharmacy business domains (PBM, prescriptions & refills, immunization, inventory tracking, managed health care, EPR etc.) and associated information technologies demonstrated through participation on multiple projects and industry roles.
* 4+ years of experience working with Agile methodologies and delivery of quality software as part of an Agile team. This includes must have experience of running SCRUM, Kanban or other agile development techniques.
* Some experience with pharmacy security compliance (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR, 21 CFR, GxP etc.) & integration standards (e.g., HL, GS1 etc.)
* High energy levels and tolerance for tight deadlines and time pressures.
* Ability to mediate between competing technical priorities; align priorities and goals through collaboration with technical leads and product managers.
* Effectively communicate between teams and within teams in order to drive alignment and increase effectiveness on delivery.
* Ability to evaluate and communicate different engineering solutions and trade-offs.
* Ability to identify strengths and weaknesses of individuals in order to maximize team effectiveness; provide guidance to individuals when needed for coaching or mentoring
* Former experience with firms like Amazon or Google with TPM like experiences is a bonus.

Education

* Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience
* Pharmacist license or , Pharm. D. desirable.

About us

Albertsons Companies is at the forefront of the revolution in retail. With a fixation on innovation and building culture, our team is rallying our company around a unique vision: forging a retail winner that is admired for national strength, deep roots in the communities we serve, and a team that has passion for food and delivering great service.

Albertsons Culture Principles

* Compassion: We always treat each other with kindness and respect
* Team: We always support and recognize each other
* Inclusive: We always value everyone's perspective
* Learning: We always strive to grow and develop ourselves and others
* Competitive: We always act with integrity to win over the customer
* Ownership: We always take actions to drive our success

Physical Environment:

* Work may be performed in a temperature-controlled environment.
* Must sit, stand, or walk for extended periods of time.
* May spend long periods of time at desk or computer terminal.
* Will use keyboards, telephone, and other office equipment during the course of normal workday.
* Stooping, bending, twisting, and reaching may be required in completion of job duties.
* Work day is fast paced; some evening and weekend work may be required.

How to Apply: Interested candidates are encouraged to submit a resume by visiting https://www.albertsonscompanies.com/careers/en/home.html

Diversity is fundamental at Albertsons Companies. We foster an inclusive working environment where the different strengths and perspectives of each employee is both recognized and valued. We believe that building successful relationships with our customers and our communities is only possible through the diversity of our people. A diverse workforce leads to better teamwork and creative thinking, as well as mutual understanding and respect.

The Albertsons Companies policy is to provide employment, training, compensation, promotion, and other conditions of employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, sex, age, disability, veteran status, medical condition, marital status, or any other legally protected status.

We support a drug-free workplace -- some positions require applicants offered a position to pass a pre-employment drug test before they are hired.

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