Albertsons-Safeway Company is one of the largest food and drug retailers with 2,300+ stores. The Albertsons-Safeway 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.

Albertsons' Technology Department has an opening for an Android Technical Lead, H&W. This position is in Plano, TX.

Position Purpose

Albertsons Companies is rapidly expanding in its digital offerings and is in need for a senior Android Technical Lead to join the fast growing, consumer facing Health & Wellness, with responsibility over the customer facing Android applications. These mobile apps are used by thousands of people every day. The right candidate should be able to understand and execute on digital transformation strategies, by creating best in class technical solutions and leading within and across technical teams to implement those solutions.

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Drive innovation and design solutions for consumer facing Android mobile applications
• Provide technical leadership in end-to-end design, development, and testing of solutions
• Work with technical leads, managers and Product stakeholders to define and manage the technical roadmap
• Prepare and present potential technical solutions and advise the business on approach and tradeoffs
• Work with developers, business analysts and subject matter experts to understand the complex technological system in order to produce integrated solution options
• Provide high level effort estimates in the absence of detailed requirements
• Communicate solution approaches to architects, project teams and other stakeholders
• Keep up to date on cutting edge technologies and effectively incorporate that knowledge to our platform roadmap, design and implementation

Qualifications:

• 4-year degree (Computer Science, Information Systems or relational functional field) and/or equivalent combination of education or work experience
• 10+ years overall programming experience
• 7+ years of acting as a designer for major systems and their subsystems
• Strong hands-on experience building consumer facing mobile solutions for Android
• Hands on experience with Kotlin and Java.
• Sound understanding of architectural pattern like MVVM and MVC
• Hands on experience with REST API services
• Deep knowledge of scalability, security and maintainability of high-volume mobile applications
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, leadership and decision-making skills
• Ability to communicate and drive highly complex technology solutions to broad audiences within and outside of IT through diagrams, written and verbal presentations and communication
• Ability to define solutions from very high-level business ideas
• Ability to describe non-functional requirements
• Ability to work independently

How to Apply: Interested candidates are encouraged to submit a resume by visiting careersatsafeway.com

Diversity is fundamental at Albertsons-Safeway. 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-Safeway 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 -- all applicants offered a position are required to pass a pre-employment drug test before they are hired.

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