Come join Pattison Food Group Ltd., a Jim Pattison business, and Canada’s largest Western-based provider of food and health products.
Pattison Food Group Ltd. is a certified Great Place to Work® and consists of Save-On-Foods and other well-known grocery banners. With nearly 300 retail locations, we proudly employ nearly 30,000 team members.
We have an exciting opportunity for a full-time Technical Lead-WFM to join our IT team in Langley, BC.
Reporting to the Sr. Solution Architect, you will be responsible for the end-to-end technical solution design and reliability of integrations. This role will join our IT team implementing a new, transformative workforce management platform which integrates downstream payroll, reporting, and enterprise systems.
This role combines hands-on technical leadership with solution ownership and is critical to ensuring reliability and pay accuracy, as platforms are delivered through a phased rollout.
You will be responsible for:
Owning the end-to-end technical architecture for Workforce Management integrations to Workday, payroll, and related enterprise platforms.
Leading the design and implementation of reliable integrations (API, event/message, batch/ETL), with clear system boundaries, data ownership, and accountability.
Defining and enforcing integration standards, including patterns, validation, reconciliation, error handling, monitoring, and recovery.
Providing technical leadership through coaching, mentoring, and design guidance to developers.
Ensuring all pay impacting changes are designed, tested, and released safely, with appropriate controls, approvals, and rollback strategies.
Partnering with business teams and systems analysts to translate complex labor rules into scalable, compliant technical solutions.
Coordinating deployments and releases across environments, supporting phased rollouts and cutover planning.
Establishing and continuously improving CI/CD and release practices, including automated testing and quality gates.
Collaborating with project managers, vendors, and implementation partners to create strong plans and proactively mitigate risk.
Holding vendors accountable to technical standards, delivery commitments, and quality outcomes.
You have:
A post-secondary education in Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
5+ years of experience in enterprise software development and integration, including technical leadership.
Hands-on experience designing and delivering mission critical integrations where data accuracy impacts employee pay or compliance.
Strong understanding of system of record concepts and enterprise integration patterns.
Proficiency in Java and/or Python, with solid knowledge of relational databases, data modeling, and SQL.
Experience integrating SaaS and enterprise platforms using APIs, file based, and event/message-based patterns.
Experience with cloud-based platforms, service-oriented architectures, and CI/CD pipelines.
Working knowledge of testing, observability, and operational practices required to run integrations reliably in production.
Strong understanding of security and identity concepts, including SSO, role-based access, secrets management, and auditability.
A Proven ability to translate business and technical requirements into scalable, well-structured technical designs.
Experience with Workforce Management, Workday, or other HCM platforms is considered an asset.
Familiarity with automation, analytics, or optimization is considered an asset.
You are:
A strong technical leader with clear ownership of outcomes and decisions.
Organized and effective at prioritizing across multiple parallel workstreams.
Confident navigating ambiguity in complex enterprise and operational contexts.
A clear, collaborative communicator with both technical and business partners.
Pragmatic and outcome focused, balancing delivery speed with sound engineering and operational reliability.
Calm under pressure; able to lead incident response through root cause resolution.
Detail oriented and data driven, with a strong ability to validate end to end flows and identify integration risks early.
What we offer:
In addition to a highly competitive salary, we offer a great range of benefits, a company pension plan, free parking, exclusive team member offers, and opportunities for development and career progression.
If you’re looking to join a team that puts people first, you’re in the right place. Apply online today!
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Compensation Details:
$106,279.00 - $132,849.00The compensation offered for this position will take into consideration location, education, skills, experience and other factors.
What We Do
Established in 2021, the Pattison Food Group is a Jim Pattison business and Western Canada’s leading provider of food and drugs. The Pattison Food Group includes Save-On-Foods, Buy-Low Foods, Quality Foods, Everything Wine, Pure Integrative Pharmacy, Imperial Distributors Canada Inc., More Rewards and other Jim Pattison Group specialty and wholesale operations. Its businesses employ more than 30,000 team members in nearly 300 food and drug retail locations and share a passion for giving back to the communities where they do business. Pattison Food Group businesses are leaders in customer service and innovation and are committed to achieving long-term growth
