Job description
Company Description
At Walgreens, we are laser-focused on the development of next-generation healthcare technology, products and services. This includes collaborating with the Chicago-based MATTER incubator to uncover new innovations that can help shape the future of healthcare, technology and pharmacy. Life in IT is exciting, rewarding, dynamic and always evolving. Now imagine just how much more rewarding and exciting it can be when you’re innovating on behalf of better health every day. With a primary focus on our customers, you’ll help create and maintain complex systems in a fast-paced retail environment, living and breathing “what’s next” as you keep your finger on the pulse of the latest healthcare and technology trends. This is an exceptional opportunity to join some of the brightest, best and most diverse technology minds working today. We are the premier retail IT organization in North America because we provide the best possible value to our stakeholders and customers around the world.
Job Description
This role demonstrates proficiency in all areas of the professional function and advanced in-depth specialization to perform and implement activities that impact components / processes of specified functional areas of the Walgreens Digital/Online application. This role is typically assigned to strategic, complex undertakings. Receives work in the form of short- and mid-term outcomes that regularly require the application of independent judgment and creativity.
Mentors less experienced members of the team. May lead teams / projects.
Job Responsibilities
- Plans, designs, develops, and tests software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products including cloud-based or internet-related resources.
- Writes code that establishes and enhances coding specifications, typically for software programs and systems that have little or no precedent.
- Delivers software features with exceptional quality, meeting designated release plans and delivery commitments.
- Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors. Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
- Guides the daily work of assigned work group / team. Recommends modifications to the daily operations of the assigned work group / team. Makes needed adjustments to short-term priorities.
- Owns a functional area. Breaks large requests down into sub-tasks, gives higher-level status updates. Writes test plans. Takes operational responsibility. Sets measurable goals and meets them. Reviews code changes.
- Networks with senior internal and external personnel in own area of expertise. Interacts with direct team of accountability, peers and/or managers in other teams. May interact with vendors and/or customers to share information and improve workflow processes.
- May design specifications of assigned projects and may lead in implementation.
- Demonstrates proficiency in all areas of the professional function and advanced in-depth specialization in some.
- Participates in developing technical / business approaches and new or enhanced technical resources. Has proven expertise in software design, architecture and software and system interrelationships. Has expert knowledge of programming languages important to the organization.
- Sets software engineering project schedules, defines project parameters and tasks and monitors project tasks. Develops and keeps the “vision” of the project, leading others toward its completion.
- Resolves a wide range of issues in creative ways.
- Owns the development and rollout for an entire product, or large project. Champions process (Scrum, TDD, etc). Writes tech specs and identifies risks before starting major projects. Sets standards. Goes out of their way to reduce complexity. As needed, takes on additional “tech lead” responsibilities for encouraging an initiative to completion.
- Allocates and tracks the work of individual contributors. Participates in teaching and training members of work group / team.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology.
- Experience working in an Agile environment.
- MERN stack development experience using ReactJS, Redux, NodeJS, ExpressJS, MongoDB and with expertise on JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Experience in Restful web services using NodeJS ExpressJS.
- Experience in NoSQL databases, such as MySQL and MongoDB.
DevOps
- Prior experience in leading a group of automation/DevOps or development engineering team.
- Prior experience to deployment automation for various applications IaaS, PaaS platforms on a large complex system.
- Experience in working on Kubernetes platform on a microservices architecture on high traffic applications.
- Strong understanding of infrastructure components (e.g. databases, networking, DNS, cloud services, orchestration tools, containerization).
- Experience in operationalization high traffic Web and Mobile applications through monitoring and alerting for a polyglot application stack.
Web/backend Developer
- Prior experience in mentoring a team of engineers, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
- Enthusiastic about promoting high quality standards in the team across documentation, unit testing, code reviews, test automation & CI/CD.
- Hands on full stack proficiency (e.g., Java, NodeJS, ., SQL, NoSQL, React, JavaScript etc.)
- Mentor team in the choice of Enterprise Integration patterns for a seamless integration with other enterprise & external assets.
- Big picture person with obsession about functional completeness, performance, security & resilience of end-to-end solution.
- Strong knowledge of implementation, security, capacity planning & performance tuning of solutions deployed to Cloud technologies – Azure (ACS, AKS), Google, IBM, AWS or Cloud Foundry.
Mobile Developer
- 6+ years of Mobile App development experience in Swift, SwiftUI, Objective C ( iOS).
- 6+ Years of Mobile App development in Kotlin( Android).
- Experience in Test Driven Development and Testing Automation using cloud based products like AppCenter, ADO.
- Experience in ReactNative Programming.
- Knowledge of software engineering best practices including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build process, testing & operations.
- Accessibility Experience.
- Experience in building Design patterns, modularized apps.
- Excellent Debugging, Optimization and Performance Skills.
Data & Analytics
- 6+ years of SME experience integrating, transforming and consolidating data from various structured and unstructured data systems for building analytics solutions in any cloud Platforms: Microsoft Azure, AWS or GCP.
- 6+ years of experience working with Product Owner and domain experts to deliver data analytics and data Integration solutions.
- Experience in SQL, Java or Python programming.
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases such as Cosmos, Cassandra.
- Experience in Azure cloud technologies like Azure Data Flow, Data Bricks, Azure Synapse and Analysis Services.
- Knowledge of software engineering best practices including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build process, testing & operations.
- Experience in any of reporting tools like Power BI, Business objects, Cognos or Tableau
- Working experience with dimensional data modeling and strong knowledge of best practices and solution patterns.
- Hands on experience in Data Pipeline and integration tools like Talend, Change Data Capture (CDC), Spark & Azure APIs.
- Coach and guide technical engineers for source data understanding, designing analytical solutions and critical operational support.
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
