Requisition ID: 187536
Career Group: Corporate Office Careers
Job Category: IT Quality Engineering & Automation
Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%
Job Type: Full-Time
Country: Canada (CA)
Province: Nova Scotia; Alberta; Ontario
City: Stellarton / Calgary / Mississauga
Location: Foord St. Office, Calgary Office, Tahoe 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.
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 an Release Planning Lead. This role can be based out of one our main offices including: Stellarton, NS; Mississauga, ON; Calgary, AB.
Here’s where you’ll be focusing:
As an Release Planning Lead with Sobeys, you will:
Create, maintain and publish the environment portfolio and release calendar for DEV, QA and Production systems including any integration points. Ensure future releases are coordinated with other roadmap initiatives to avoid collisions. Support project planning activities and environment provision through cataloguing and tracking environment activities related to the roadmap. Conduct Release Readiness, Milestone, and Go/No-Go reviews. Coordinate with development teams to ensure releases stay on track and meet the acceptance criteria to move from one test phase to another. Collaborate with testing and delivery teams to ensure availability to test new code or environments. Support development and testing teams to ensure environment readiness for testing activities. Coordinate the scheduling and use of shared dev/test/staging environments. Manage and track environment dependencies throughout the release process. Assist test teams in planning regression testing for external code releases and performance testing schedules. Work with developments teams on the acquisition of new technologies and provide guidance to determine the required number and use of environments. Responsible for ensuring management is informed of all risks and blockers impacting testing from an environment readiness perspective.
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What you have to offer:
Your experience and resume will show us:
Bachelor’s degree preferably in Computer Science/IT or related discipline or equivalent experience. 5+ years of previous IT release and/or project management experience in a complex organization. 8+ years of experience working in software development. Proven leadership and analytical skills. Strong collaboration and coaching skills. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional work teams. Excellent understanding of the SDLC and STLC. Knowledge of the technology stack to include infrastructure and applications. Experience with Microsoft 365.
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.
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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:
Competitive Benefits Package, tailored to meet your needs, including health and dental coverage, life, short- and long-term disability insurance. Access to Virtual Health Care Platform and Employee and Family Assistance Program. A Retirement and Savings Plan that provides you with the opportunity to build and add value to your savings. A 10% in-store discount at our participating banners and access to a wide range of other discount programs, making your purchases more affordable. Learning and Development Resources to fuel your professional growth. Parental leave top-up Paid Vacation and Days-off
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.