Java Team Lead jobs in British Columbia

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- Enterprise 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 integrations across enterprise platforms, ensuring clear system boundaries, data ownership, and accountability.

• Leading the design and implementation of reliable, scalable integrations (API, event/message, batch/ETL) that meet enterprise standards for performance, security, and maintainability.

• Defining and enforcing integration engineering standards, including patterns, validation, reconciliation, error handling, monitoring, and recovery.

• Providing hands‑on technical leadership through coaching, mentoring, code reviews, and architectural guidance to developers and integration engineers.

• Ensuring all high‑impact changes are designed, tested, and released safely with proper controls, approvals, and rollback strategies.

• Partnering with business teams and systems analysts to translate complex requirements into scalable, well‑structured technical solutions.

• Coordinating deployments and releases across environments, supporting phased rollouts, cutover planning, and production readiness.

• Establishing and continuously improving CI/CD and release practices, including automated testing, quality gates, and observability.

• Collaborating with project managers, vendors, and implementation partners to build strong delivery plans and proactively mitigate risks.

• Holding vendors and partners accountable to technical standards, delivery commitments, and quality expectations.

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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