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Publix Super Markets, Inc. is the largest privately-owned food retailer in the nation with more than 1,200 stores and more than 200,000 associates throughout the Southeast. We are associate-owned, proud of our family atmosphere, and consistently named as one of the best companies to work for in America. We are largely debt-free and renowned for our financial performance as well as our premier customer service. Publixs Information Services (I/S) department is located in Lakeland, Florida and Alpharetta, Georgia and employs over 1000 associates. I/S provides the information technology required for all Publix business units including retail stores and all office and warehouse environments. The Publix I/S mission is to maximize the value of information technology to Publix associates and customers.
Publix is able to offer virtual employment for this position in the following states: FL, GA, AL, TN, SC, NC, VA Join our growing customer digital solutions team at Publix. We are seeking a senior product owner of Cloud to work with the Customer Digital Solutions (CDS) Cloud team. The CDS cloud team has 4 managers driving work in the following areas: Engineering, SRE, DevSecOps and QAOps. You will need to work with different managers and help them establish a Cloud strategy and roadmap as part of the digital transformation and modernization journey in the Azure cloud. You will author cloud strategy docs, and vision documents along with user stories for current and future of the Cloud Platform evolution. As a Cloud Product Owner, you are required to have strong understanding of Cloud architecture and is required to produce a prioritized backlog and subsequent roadmap in collaboration with other Leaders and Product Managers.- Responsible for defining stories and prioritizing the team backlog to streamline the execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the features or components.
- Contribute to the prioritization of features within releases through the definition of a roadmap.
- Works closely with Manager and Product Managers to understand and communicate product vision, strategy, and roadmaps to the engineering organization.
- Understand the technical architecture and the solution to ensure proper allocation of effort during a release.
- Responsible for building, pruning, and maintaining the team backlog which consists of user stories, bugs, and enhancement requests.
- Accountable for keeping the process of story definition, estimation, and implementation moving throughout the agile software development lifecycle.
- Continued collaboration with the Product Manager to ensure alignment of critical commitments and future business objectives
- End-to-End ownership for a product which includes the operational stability, scalability, and maintainability of the product
- Being the voice of the CDS Cloud team
- Good understanding of infrastructure, IaaS, SaaS, Infrastructure as a Code, and related automation.
- Bachelors Degree in computer science or an analytical discipline, or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of Business Systems Analysis experience
- 5+ years of Compute/Hosting infrastructure Engineering and Delivery experience.
- 5 years of experience leading large projects and/or managing teams
- 3+ years of technical experience with significant personal capability in Azure Cloud
- Participate in the design, road map, and support of applications in the Azure cloud
- Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Feature development and Security teams to ensure customer facing digital solutions meet the overall enterprise cloud guidelines
- Able to debug and resolve complex issues in cloud environments for business-critical applications like Publix.com
- Must have a deep understanding of managing large-scale distributed systems in Cloud including disaster recovery planning, blue-green deployments
- A proven track record of managing and delivering enterprise IT projects
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- 9+ years of experience in Information Technology, with hands-on experience in Cloud, from a Development and Architecture background
- Experience with Agile, Scrum, SAFe or other Agile frameworks.
- Experience with Microservices, Kubernetes, container and open-source technologies is a plus.
- Azure certification is preferred.
- Minimum 3 years of experience focused on cloud architecture, operations, DevOps, or administration.
- Must have a deep understanding of large-scale distributed systems, multiple operating systems, secure configuration
- Excellent organization, prioritization, and written/verbal communication.
- Prior experience in successfully delivering enterprise programs across functional IT Teams.
- A self-motivated exceptional people leader with experience building and leading high-performing teams, ideally with remote or hybrid teams
- Proactively give and receive feedback with a growth mindset
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; adept at active listening
- Experience working with and operating production compute infrastructure systems at large scale
- Employee stock ownership plan that contributes Publix stock to associates each year at no cost
- An opportunity to purchase additional shares of our privately-held stock
- 401(k) retirement savings plan
- Group health plan (with prescription benefits)
- Group dental plan
- Group vision plan
- Sick pay
- Paid Parental Leave
- Long-term disability insurance
- Company-paid life insurance (with accidental death & dismemberment benefits)
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vacation pay
- Free hot lunches (buffet-style) at facilities with a cafeteria
- Paycheck direct deposit
- Credit union
- Access to over 50 discount offers including discounts on computer, vehicle and wireless purchases
- 6 paid holidays (associates can exchange the following holidays with their managers approval: New Years Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, and Labor Day).