Lead Software Engineer - PETS Development (Information Technology)

Publix Super Markets, Inc. is the largest privately-owned food retailer in the nation with more than 1,200 stores and more than 200,000 associates throughout the Southeast. We are associate-owned, proud of our family atmosphere, and consistently named as one of the best companies to work for in America. We are largely debt-free and renowned for our financial performance as well as our premier customer service. Publix's Information Services (I/S) department is located in Lakeland, Florida and Alpharetta, Georgia and employs over 1000 associates. I/S provides the information technology required for all Publix business units including retail stores and all office and warehouse environments. The Publix I/S mission is to maximize the value of information technology to Publix associates and customers.

Please note, this is a hybrid position requiring 8 days per month on-site in Lakeland, FL.
 
Welcome to Publix Technology, the award-winning technical group for Publix Super Markets, Inc., the largest employee-owned company in the nation. Our technology teams of 2100+ associates provide cutting-edge, modern solutions to nearly 1400 retail stores and 200,000+ internal team members across 8 states. We offer positions at all levels - summer internships, individual contributor roles, to technical leadership across a broad range of technical disciplines. So, whether you are interested in IT security, platform engineering, architecture, software development, or infrastructure - we have a career path for you! Pub Subs are not the only thing we build from scratch. See for yourself why Publix Super Markets, Inc. has been on Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For list.
 
Join the Publix Technology Settlement Team as a Sr Software Engineer/Lead Software Engineer where you will be part of an agile team developing modern applications using various methods, tools, and technologies. You will be responsible for playing a key role interacting with enterprise teams and product management. As a technologist, you will write user stories and groom product backlog items to develop features that consider a frictionless user experience while leading the delivery of lasting contributions to Publix corporate associates.

The most suitable hire for this position will be a technical candidate with strong analytical, planning, problem solving, writing, and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with management, peers, technology vendors, and business unit customers. We are looking for someone with agile development and delivery experience. Additionally, the candidate would be familiar with all aspects of delivering software using agile best practices such as - test-driven development, code refactoring, CI/CD, simple code design, pair programming, and a common codebase using cloud technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Leads the definition, design, configuration, coding/scripting, testing, and deployment of the most complex technical solutions across multiple disciplines under limited guidance.
• Provides hands-on technical support for the most complex components including but not limited to application platforms, cloud platforms, security tools, hardware, middleware, and networking.
• Performs on-call duties as required by the team to ensure 3rd tier support coverage for technologies within assigned discipline.
• Serves as a point of contact for highly complex technical system issues.
• Leads implementation of highly complex technical components in coordination with other technical components to provide a complete technology solution.
• Ensures highly complex technical solutions adhere to security best practices and standards.
• Leads the monitoring and tuning activities of highly complex technical systems for optimal availability and performance.
• Leads proactive system, application, infrastructure, and security maintenance and management activities of the largest and most complex components.
• Leads Disaster Recover and Business Continuity activities and testing under minimal guidance to ensure system resiliency.
• Plans technical activities to manage personal work tasks along with tasks to be completed by others by estimating timelines and effort.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related analytical filed or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of software engineering experience
• 7+ years of coding experience leveraging .NET Framework 4.72+/.NET Core 6+ with C#, ASP.NET MVC, JS/jQuery, and object-oriented design.
• 7+ years of experience in analyzing complex business problems or processes and translating business requirements into technology solutions that factor in system performance, usability, quality, cross-system interdependencies, scalability, and total cost of ownership.
• Leadership experience in driving the work of a team of individuals performing similar work in an agile scrum environment as a subject matter expert, product owner, business analyst, or similar position.
• Experience planning and managing all activities associated with delivering solutions in a large-scale distributed internet facing environment.
• Coordinating large and critical cross platform releases with business units and technical teams
• Approving design of complex technical solutions working with architects and other I/S resources
• Working closely with IT management on project and resource planning, including effort estimation
• Strong knowledge of architecture and design of solutions in an Azure environment to solve business problems.
• Ability to work concurrently on multiple assignments with similar deadlines.

• 9+ years of software engineering experience
• 7+ years of experience working in an agile scrum environment, leading developers, and working closely with business partners.
• 5+ years of experience you have in implementing enterprise applications using platform services like Azure App service, Azure SQL, Azure Service Bus, Databricks, notification hubs, event hubs, Microservices, stream analytics, Cosmos DB, Redis Cache, OpenAPI, IoT Hub, application insights, etc.
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert Certification (AZ-303/AZ-304) or equivalent experience in designing/architecting Azure solutions
• Extensive experience in designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines in either Azure DevOps or other similar tools.
• Data store technologies such as SQL Server 2019/2022, Azure SQL, Azure Cosmos DB, and Redis Cache
• Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC/Telerik Reporting
• Experience with PowerBI
• Experience with Windows Server 2019
• Experience with Active Directory permissions and Group Policy
• Experience with event-based messaging platforms like Kafka, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Stream Analytics, or MQTT
• Experience working in an EFT environment.

• Employee stock ownership plan that contributes Publix stock to associates each year at no cost


• An opportunity to purchase additional shares of our privately-held stock


• 401(k) retirement savings plan


• Group health, dental and vision plans


• Paid Time Off


• Paid Parental Leave


• Short and long-term disability insurance


• Tuition reimbursement


• Free hot lunches (buffet-style) at facilities with a cafeteria


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