The Big Picture

Sysco LABS is the captive innovation arm of Sysco Corporation (NYSE: SYY), the world’s largest foodservice company. Sysco is a Fortune 500 company and the global leader in selling, marketing, and distributing food products to restaurants, healthcare, and educational facilities, lodging establishments and other customers who prepare meals away from home. Its family of products also includes equipment and supplies for the foodservice and hospitality industries. With more than 76,000 colleagues, the company operates 334 distribution facilities worldwide and serves approximately 730,000 customer locations. For fiscal year 2024 that ended July 1, 2024, the company generated sales of more than $78.8 billion.

Operating with the agility and tenacity of a tech–startup, powered by the expertise of the industry leader, Sysco LABS is perfectly poised to transform one of the world’s largest industries.

Sysco LABS’s engineering teams based out of Colombo, Sri Lanka and Austin and Houston, TX, innovate across the entire food service journey – from the enterprise grade technology that enables Sysco’s business, to the technology that revolutionizes the way that Sysco connects with restaurants and the technology that shapes the way those restaurants connect with customers.

Sysco LABS technology is present in the sourcing of food products, merchandising, storage and warehouse operations, order placement and pricing algorithms, the delivery of food and supplies to Sysco’s global network, the in-restaurant dining experience of the end-customer and much more.

We are currently on the lookout for a Technical Lead – AS400 to join our team.

Responsibilities:

• Provide ongoing maintenance, support and enhancements in existing systems and platforms.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with other software engineers and developers, business users, product owner and customers to achieve solutions that meet business expectations.
• Work alongside other members of the team to elevate technology and consistently apply best practices.
• Adheres to architecture standards and development best practices like Test-Driven development, code reviews, static code analysis and secure coding
• Writes technical user stories and ensures that non-functional requirements are met to ensure performance, scaling, resilience and maintainability of software/solutions
• Actively resolves defects and manages technical debt
• Develop and execute unit tests to ensure business/customer requirements are delivered
• Participates in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives to enable progress, and surface and resolve impediments
• Collaborates with the team to support end-to-end including design, development, QA, deployment and production support
• Provide recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Test software development methodology in an agile environment.
• Complies with Sysco’s Food Safety Policy and procedures to ensure food safety, quality and legality requirements are met.
• Is willing to work safely with minimal environmental impact and understands the importance of reporting all hazards, incidents, and environmental spills immediately to their supervisor.
• Understands that they play an integral role in their own safety and that of their colleagues and is willing to speak out when hazards are present.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• Minimum 8 years’ IT experience in an AS400, RPG environment
• College degree or equivalent years of IT experience
• Experience using: AS400/IBM i – RPG, RLU , CL, DB2, ILE and SQL
• Experience developing user interfaces using DDS screens
• Experience programming using subfiles
• Experience debugging programs
• Strong knowledge in AS400/IBM i OS commands and APIs
• Strong knowledge in SQL query optimization and stored procedures
• Experience in B2B and EDI will be an added advantage
• Experience with ALDON will be an added advantage
• Experience with version control systems for the appropriate technology stack
• Experience developing in an agile environment as part of a scrum team

• Experience with test driven development (TDD)
• Experience using Jira an asset
• Experience using Service Now an asset
• Experience in a Distribution environment is preferred
• Ability to work in a constantly changing, fast-paced environment
• Extremely detail-oriented, fast learner and the ability to handle multiple tasks
• Proficient troubleshooting ability
• Proficient communication skills

Benefits:

• An attractive base compensation package comfortably above market rates
• Performance rewards and recognition
• Comprehensive healthcare coverage
• A health and wellness allowance
• A team outing allowance
• Paid birthday leave
• Learning and development allowance
• Overseas travel opportunities and exposure to client environments
• A progressive culture that promotes work-life harmony and personal development

Sysco LABS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.