Company Overview
About Walgreens
Walgreens is a key part of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA), a leading global retail pharmacy company. Our mission is to help people live more joyful lives through better health, making us America’s most trusted pharmacy, health, and beauty provider.
With almost 9,000 stores across the U.S., Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, Walgreens serves around 9 million customers daily as a neighborhood health hub. Our pharmacists are vital to the U.S. healthcare system, offering a wide array of pharmacy and health services. We provide a seamless omnichannel experience, blending physical and digital platforms with cutting-edge technology to deliver top-notch products and services to communities nationwide.
Job Responsibility
- Plans, designs, develops and tests software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products including cloud-based or internet-related tools.
- 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.
- Leads 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 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.
- 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 driving an initiative to completion.
- Allocates and tracks the work of individual contributors.
Basic Qualifications
We’re looking for candidates with a strong foundation in engineering and leadership. Here’s what you’ll need:
- A Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Software Engineering, or a similar field, along with at least 4 years of experience. Alternatively, a High School Diploma/GED combined with at least 7 years of experience in a related field.
- Proven experience writing code for moderate to complex online applications, microservices, mobile applications, or deployment automation.
- Proficiency in programming languages used for online applications, microservices, mobile applications, or deployment automation.
- Experience designing and building moderately complex applications.
- Skilled in writing automated test scripts.
- A track record of creating coding/scripting solutions to resolve complex problems.
- Experience engaging with executive-level stakeholders.
- At least 2 years of experience contributing to financial decisions in a workplace setting.
- At least 2 years of experience in direct, indirect, or cross-functional team leadership.
- Ability to travel up to 10% for business purposes, both within and out of state.
Preferred Qualifications
While the basic qualifications are essential, candidates with the following will stand out:
General Engineering & DevOps
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Technology.
- Experience working in an Agile environment.
- Strong background in DevOps.
- Previous experience leading an automation/DevOps or development engineering team.
- Prior experience with deployment automation for various applications on IaaS and PaaS platforms within large, complex systems.
- Experience working on a Kubernetes platform with a microservices architecture for high-traffic applications.
- A strong understanding of infrastructure components (e.g., databases, networking, DNS, cloud services, orchestration tools, containerization).
- Experience operationalizing high-traffic web and mobile applications through monitoring and alerting for diverse application stacks.
- Enthusiasm for promoting high-quality standards across documentation, unit testing, code reviews, test automation, and CI/CD.
- A “big picture” mindset with an obsession for the functional completeness, performance, security, and resilience of end-to-end solutions.
- Strong knowledge of implementation, security, capacity planning, and performance tuning for solutions deployed to Cloud technologies (Azure, Google, IBM, AWS, or Cloud Foundry).
Web/Backend Developer Specifics
- Prior experience mentoring a team of engineers, acting as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
- Hands-on full-stack proficiency (e.g., Java, NodeJS, .NET, SQL, NoSQL, React, JavaScript).
- Ability to mentor teams in choosing Enterprise Integration patterns for seamless integration with other enterprise and external assets.
Mobile Developer Specifics
- 6+ years of Mobile App development experience in Swift, SwiftUI, Objective-C (iOS) or Kotlin (Android).
- Experience with Test-Driven Development and testing automation using cloud-based products like AppCenter, ADO.
- Experience with ReactNative Programming.
- Knowledge of software engineering best practices, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Experience with Accessibility.
- Experience building Design patterns and modularized apps.
- Excellent debugging, optimization, and performance skills.
Data & Analytics Specifics
- 6+ years of subject matter expert (SME) experience integrating, transforming, and consolidating data from various structured and unstructured data systems for building analytics solutions on any cloud platform (Microsoft Azure, AWS, or GCP).
- 6+ years of experience working with Product Owners 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 and Cassandra.
- Experience with Azure cloud technologies like Azure Data Flow, Databricks, Azure Synapse, and Analysis Services.
- Knowledge of software engineering best practices, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Experience in any of the 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, and Azure APIs.
- Ability to coach and guide technical engineers in source data understanding, designing analytical solutions, and critical operational support.
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