Walgreens
Lead Engineer (Cloud)
Walgreens, Deerfield, Illinois, United States, 60063
Job Summary
This lead individual contributor role demonstrates proficiency in all areas of the professional function and advanced in-depth specialization to perform and implement activities that impact components or processes of specified functional areas of the Walgreens Cloud Environment. This role will be assigned to strategic complex epics and expected to operate with little oversight and deliver functioning solutions. Receives work in the form of short and midterm outcomes that regularly require the application of independent judgment and creativity.
Mentors less experienced members of the team. May lead projects and matrixed teams.
Job Responsibilities
Plans, designs, develops and tests software systems or cloud platform management technologies including SaaS solutions used for software development in the cloud.Writes code that establishes and enhances coding specifications, typically for software programs and systems that have little or no precedent.Delivers cloud and hybrid platform 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.Leads the daily work of assigned work group or team. Recommends modifications to the daily operations of the assigned work group or 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 delivery and operational responsibility. Sets measurable goals, and meets them. Reviews and approves 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. Will 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 or business approaches and new or enhanced technical tools. 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.Analyzes open source and or COTS products and makes recommendation to support build vs buy decisions.Owns the development and rollout for an entire product, or large project. Champions process SAFe, Agile 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 driving an initiative to completion.Allocates and tracks the work of individual contributors. Participates in teaching and training members of work group or team.
About Walgreens and WBA :
Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) is included in the U.S. Retail Pharmacy and U.S. Healthcare segments of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA), an integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail leader with a 170 year heritage of caring for communities. WBA’s purpose is to create more joyful lives through better health. Operating nearly 9,000 retail locations across America, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, Walgreens is proud to be a neighborhood health destination serving nearly 10 million customers each day. Walgreens pharmacists play a critical role in the U.S. healthcare system by providing a wide range of pharmacy and healthcare services, including those that drive equitable access to care for the nation’s medically underserved populations. To best meet the needs of customers and patients, Walgreens offers a true omnichannel experience, with fully integrated physical and digital platforms supported by the latest technology to deliver high quality products and services in communities nationwide.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelors Degree and at least 4 years of experience in Engineering, Software engineering or related field OR High School/GED and at least 7 years of experience in Engineering, Software engineering or related field.Experience writing code for moderate to complex online applications, microservices deployment automation or customer experience solutions.Experience with programming languages to write robust infrastructure as code components that can scale securely.Experience designing or building moderately complex applications.Experience writing automated test scripts and deploying baselines.Experience creating coding or scripting solutions to fix complex problems or issues.Experience engaging at the executive level.At least 2 years of experience contributing to financial decisions in the workplace.At least 2 years of direct leadership, indirect leadership and or cross functional team leadership.Willing to travel at least 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology.Experience working in an Agile environment.DevOps experience.Prior experience in leading a group of automation or DevOps or development engineering team.Prior experience in deployment automation for various applications IaaS, PaaS platforms on large complex systems.Experience working on Kubernetes platform on a microservices architecture on high traffic applications and implementing customer experience monitoring solutions.Strong understanding of infrastructure components including databases, IP networking, DNS, cloud services, orchestration tools, and containerization.Web or backend Developer experience.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 and CI or CD.Hands-on proficiency in Java or C#, NodeJS, SQL, NoSQL, React, JavaScript, etc.Hands-on experience in Enterprise Integration patterns for a seamless integration with other enterprise and external assets, including MTLS and other A and A solutions.Big picture person with an obsession about functional completeness, performance, security and resilience of end-to-end solutions.Strong knowledge of implementation, security, capacity planning & performance tuning of solutions deployed to Cloud technologies – Azure (ACS, AKS), Google, Cloud Foundry.Experience in designing and implementing solutions that run in multiple regions with latency tolerating patterns.Experience in Test Driven Development and Testing Automation using cloud-based products like AppCenter, ADO.Knowledge of software engineering best practices including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build process, testing & operations.Experience in building Design patterns and enforcing deviation limitation solutions.Excellent Debugging, Optimization and Performance Skills.Data and Analytics experience.6 plus years of SME experience enabling ETL and unstructured data handling in legacy and Cloud services.6 plus years of experience working with Product Owner and domain experts to enable and optimize data analytics and data Integration solutions.Experience in SQL, Java, C# or Python programming.Experience with relational and No SQL databases such as DynamoDB, Cosmos, Cassandra.Experience in Azure cloud technologies like Azure Data Flow, Data Bricks, Azure Synapse and Analysis Services and discern between platform and code related performance.Experience in reporting tools like Power BI, Business objects, Cognos or Tableau.Experience in simple low code, no code solutions like Power Apps for simple solutions.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 and Azure APIs.Coach and guide technical engineers for source data understanding, designing analytical solutions and critical operational support.
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This lead individual contributor role demonstrates proficiency in all areas of the professional function and advanced in-depth specialization to perform and implement activities that impact components or processes of specified functional areas of the Walgreens Cloud Environment. This role will be assigned to strategic complex epics and expected to operate with little oversight and deliver functioning solutions. Receives work in the form of short and midterm outcomes that regularly require the application of independent judgment and creativity.
Mentors less experienced members of the team. May lead projects and matrixed teams.
Job Responsibilities
Plans, designs, develops and tests software systems or cloud platform management technologies including SaaS solutions used for software development in the cloud.Writes code that establishes and enhances coding specifications, typically for software programs and systems that have little or no precedent.Delivers cloud and hybrid platform 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.Leads the daily work of assigned work group or team. Recommends modifications to the daily operations of the assigned work group or 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 delivery and operational responsibility. Sets measurable goals, and meets them. Reviews and approves 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. Will 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 or business approaches and new or enhanced technical tools. 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.Analyzes open source and or COTS products and makes recommendation to support build vs buy decisions.Owns the development and rollout for an entire product, or large project. Champions process SAFe, Agile 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 driving an initiative to completion.Allocates and tracks the work of individual contributors. Participates in teaching and training members of work group or team.
About Walgreens and WBA :
Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) is included in the U.S. Retail Pharmacy and U.S. Healthcare segments of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA), an integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail leader with a 170 year heritage of caring for communities. WBA’s purpose is to create more joyful lives through better health. Operating nearly 9,000 retail locations across America, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, Walgreens is proud to be a neighborhood health destination serving nearly 10 million customers each day. Walgreens pharmacists play a critical role in the U.S. healthcare system by providing a wide range of pharmacy and healthcare services, including those that drive equitable access to care for the nation’s medically underserved populations. To best meet the needs of customers and patients, Walgreens offers a true omnichannel experience, with fully integrated physical and digital platforms supported by the latest technology to deliver high quality products and services in communities nationwide.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelors Degree and at least 4 years of experience in Engineering, Software engineering or related field OR High School/GED and at least 7 years of experience in Engineering, Software engineering or related field.Experience writing code for moderate to complex online applications, microservices deployment automation or customer experience solutions.Experience with programming languages to write robust infrastructure as code components that can scale securely.Experience designing or building moderately complex applications.Experience writing automated test scripts and deploying baselines.Experience creating coding or scripting solutions to fix complex problems or issues.Experience engaging at the executive level.At least 2 years of experience contributing to financial decisions in the workplace.At least 2 years of direct leadership, indirect leadership and or cross functional team leadership.Willing to travel at least 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology.Experience working in an Agile environment.DevOps experience.Prior experience in leading a group of automation or DevOps or development engineering team.Prior experience in deployment automation for various applications IaaS, PaaS platforms on large complex systems.Experience working on Kubernetes platform on a microservices architecture on high traffic applications and implementing customer experience monitoring solutions.Strong understanding of infrastructure components including databases, IP networking, DNS, cloud services, orchestration tools, and containerization.Web or backend Developer experience.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 and CI or CD.Hands-on proficiency in Java or C#, NodeJS, SQL, NoSQL, React, JavaScript, etc.Hands-on experience in Enterprise Integration patterns for a seamless integration with other enterprise and external assets, including MTLS and other A and A solutions.Big picture person with an obsession about functional completeness, performance, security and resilience of end-to-end solutions.Strong knowledge of implementation, security, capacity planning & performance tuning of solutions deployed to Cloud technologies – Azure (ACS, AKS), Google, Cloud Foundry.Experience in designing and implementing solutions that run in multiple regions with latency tolerating patterns.Experience in Test Driven Development and Testing Automation using cloud-based products like AppCenter, ADO.Knowledge of software engineering best practices including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build process, testing & operations.Experience in building Design patterns and enforcing deviation limitation solutions.Excellent Debugging, Optimization and Performance Skills.Data and Analytics experience.6 plus years of SME experience enabling ETL and unstructured data handling in legacy and Cloud services.6 plus years of experience working with Product Owner and domain experts to enable and optimize data analytics and data Integration solutions.Experience in SQL, Java, C# or Python programming.Experience with relational and No SQL databases such as DynamoDB, Cosmos, Cassandra.Experience in Azure cloud technologies like Azure Data Flow, Data Bricks, Azure Synapse and Analysis Services and discern between platform and code related performance.Experience in reporting tools like Power BI, Business objects, Cognos or Tableau.Experience in simple low code, no code solutions like Power Apps for simple solutions.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 and Azure APIs.Coach and guide technical engineers for source data understanding, designing analytical solutions and critical operational support.
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