The Role
Develops, tests, deploys, maintains, and enhances business applications within Agile and ITIL frameworks. Collaborates with product owners, developers, quality analysts, and stakeholders to deliver features and meet acceptance criteria. Builds AI-powered capabilities on Microsoft Azure using Azure OpenAI, RAG, prompt engineering, and API integrations. Performs technical analysis, proofs of concept, secure coding, documentation, production support, and application optimization. May facilitate Agile ceremonies and act as a Scrum Master.
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As a family company, we serve people and communities. When you work at Meijer, you’re provided with career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth and development. Consider joining our family – take care of your career and your community!
Meijer Rewards
Weekly pay
Scheduling flexibility
Paid parental leave
Paid education assistance
Team member discount
Development programs for advancement and career growth
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This position develops, tests, maintains and enhances business applications as a member of an Agile or Operations development team, and works with the entire team to ensure development conforms to acceptance criteria. This position works with business product owners, developers, and quality analysts to drive value delivery and will participate in all phases of Agile software development.Position will follow hybrid schedule: Monday-Wednesday in Grand Rapids MI office, Thursday-Friday remote. Not eligible for immigration sponsorship.
What You'll be Doing:
- Codes, tests, and implements programs; develops system documentation according to SAFe Agile principles and industry standards.
- Performs unit tests, monitors results, and takes required corrective actions as needed.
- Assists in the deployment of applications.
- Optimizes and enhances applications and interfaces to meet SLA/functional requirements.
- Develops and integrates AI-powered application features on the Microsoft Azure stack (Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry), including prompt design, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) components, and API/tool integrations with enterprise data sources.
- Applies AI-assisted development practices — including GitHub Copilot, spec-driven development, and context/prompt engineering — to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, and support test and documentation activities.
- Provides technical consultation in new systems development, new package system evaluations and enhancement of existing systems.
- Assists product owners in systems analysis and creation or updating of documentation for all business processes.
- Interfaces with the Product Owner and IT partners to develop acceptance criteria for features and user stories and ensures acceptance criteria are met.
- Works within the SAFe Agile framework and utilizes ITIL best practices.
- Participates with other IT members, customers and other stakeholders in new product reviews, tests and pilots.
- Performs feasibility studies/proofs of concept to evaluate solutions.
- Participates in structured walkthroughs, secure coding, and technical reviews ensuring application coding and design follows secure coding and design principles.
- Assists in the production support and maintenance of applications in accordance with ITIL as needed.
- Actively participates in all team Agile ceremonies. This job role may also provide facilitation of activities for Agile teams within Meijer ITS as acting Scrum Master.
- This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position; may perform other duties as assigned or required.
What You Bring with You (Qualifications):
- Bachelor’s or equivalent.
- Any SAFe certification (SSM, SASM, SA, SPC, SPMPO).
- ITIL Foundation certification.
- Prefer experience in systems development and programming.
- Familiarity with business systems.
- Experience as a team member on project teams in a cross-functional environment. Experience on Agile teams is preferred.
- Experience in design and implementation of IT solutions.
- Strong knowledge of development tools, coding and scripting languages, SQL and testing.
- Proficient in multiple technologies or systems.
- Knowledge and understanding of structured analysis and technical design techniques.
- Knowledge of database management and file access methods.
- Working knowledge of large language model (LLM) concepts — prompt engineering, embeddings, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) — with hands-on exposure to Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, or Microsoft Copilot Studio preferred.
- Familiarity with building AI or agentic features on the Microsoft Azure stack (Azure Functions, Azure DevOps CI/CD, Application Insights) and with GenAI frameworks such as LangChain/LangGraph or Semantic Kernel is preferred.
- Experience with AI-assisted engineering tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) and modern practices such as spec-driven development and context/prompt engineering is preferred.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong team-oriented interpersonal and communication skills.
- Knowledge of agile practices in a cross-functional environment preferred.
- Ability to effectively adapt to rapidly changing technology and apply it to business needs.
- Ability to establish and maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence.
- Ability to provide high level of quality and productivity.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Any SAFe certification, such as SSM, SASM, SA, SPC, or SPMPO
- ITIL Foundation certification
- Experience in systems development and programming
- Familiarity with business systems
- Experience as a team member on cross-functional project teams
- Experience on Agile teams
- Experience designing and implementing IT solutions
- Strong knowledge of development tools, coding and scripting languages, SQL, and testing
- Proficiency in multiple technologies or systems
- Knowledge of structured analysis and technical design techniques
- Knowledge of database management and file access methods
- Working knowledge of LLM concepts, prompt engineering, embeddings, and RAG
- Hands-on exposure to Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, or Microsoft Copilot Studio
- Familiarity with Azure Functions, Azure DevOps CI/CD, and Application Insights
- Familiarity with LangChain, LangGraph, or Semantic Kernel
- Experience with AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot
- Experience with spec-driven development and context or prompt engineering
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong team-oriented interpersonal and communication skills
- Knowledge of Agile practices in a cross-functional environment
- Ability to adapt to changing technology and apply it to business needs
- Ability to establish and maintain customer trust and confidence
- Ability to provide high quality and productivity
Meijer Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Meijer and has not been reviewed or approved by Meijer.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as a meaningful part of the total package, with medical, dental, and vision options and additional supplemental coverage. The availability of wellness programming and online doctor visits further strengthens the health offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are positioned as solid, including 401(k) access and Roth 401(k) options that some find valuable. Union-negotiated structures are also associated with above-average pay and benefits in certain service roles.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are a recurring bright spot, including paid time off, vacation time, and holiday pay that can accumulate over time. Paid parental leave is also part of the package, supporting work-life needs alongside PTO.
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The Company
What We Do
It takes guts to start a business during the Great Depression. And it takes vision to keep it going. Our founder, Hendrik Meijer, opened Thrifty Acres in 1934. Almost thirty years later, his son, Fred, pioneered the world’s first ever supercenter – setting the table for who we are today: a multi-billion-dollar household name in retail. Of course, we’re not done. Not by a long shot. We recently launched the nation’s largest grocery home-delivery service – reinventing the business of grocery shopping … again. A lot has changed over the years, except for one thing; we’re still family owned. And that sense of family runs deep in everything we do. It’s the difference between selling a product and serving a community, and it’s the reason we’ve given back over $30 million to local food pantries in the last ten years. So, if you appreciate the pioneering spirit of Meijer, we’d like to connect with you. Because the bigger our family, the better
