Programming Analyst

Canadian Tire Corporation•Mississauga, ON

1d•CA$53,000 - CA$88,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Programming Analyst role is to develop and support applications and processes in our Operations Planning Centre (OPC) to enable day to day decision making and support product flow in the most efficient possible manner. The Decision Support Analyst works closely with rest of the Decision Support team, IT and business stakeholders to provide technical expertise, business knowledge, supply chain understanding, reporting, analysis and coordination on essential Supply Chain processes and objectives at the OPC. They are technical yet very knowledgeable in the OPC business processes which facilitate the rapid deployment and enhancement of cost reducing applications.

Requirements

Post-secondary education in either computer science or engineering, business and/or logistics with comparable technology-oriented content.
Knowledge of Supply Chain business processes and good understanding of retail principles.
3 to 7 years of experience in full lifecycle of application development, database design, and implementation.
Web development with ASP.NET (C# development with AJAX toolkit extension).
Database development in Oracle and MS-SQL Server. SQL, as well as Oracle PL/SQL and MS T-SQL.
Experience with Data Transfers using SSIS packages.
Microsoft Office skills (MS-Access, MS-Excel) with exposure to process diagram software (ie: Visio, Lucid Charts).

Nice To Haves

Experience in creation and maintenance of UML-based documentation would be an asset.
Working and growing knowledge in leveraging AI-enabled technologies. Knowledge and experience in intelligent automation and Agentic AI would be an asset.
Experience with Big Data oriented platforms (Hadoop, Hive, Azure/ADLS, GCP/BigQuery, Snowflake, NoSQL, etc.). Microsoft Azure data technologies like iHub and Synapse experience highly desirable as an asset.
Experience in data analysis, modeling and ETL/ELT development in a Big Data environment an asset.
Knowledge and working experience in Microsoft Power Platform (including Power BI, Power Automate and Copilot Studio), would be an asset.
Working knowledge in Unix O/S platforms (AIX preferred) an asset.
Working knowledge in basic database administration for Oracle and MS-SQL Server an asset.
Web Service development and integration an asset.
Working experience with CI/CD pipelines (Bitbucket/Git, Jenkins, Artifactory), ETL tools (e.g. Diyotta, DataStage, etc.) and data streaming (Kafka, NiFi, Event Hubs, etc.) and asset.
Experience with development in Java, JavaScript, Python and R an asset.
Knowledge in Oracle Transportation Management (OTM) data model and related reporting experience would be an asset.

Responsibilities

Develop, document and maintain applications while aligning to IT and industry coding, database standards.
Provide support and maintenance of existing applications including documentation and code maintenance ensuring the assigned applications run as efficiently and smoothly as possible. This includes participating in 24/7 paging rotation for support.
Support the business in decision making by providing ad-hoc information, reports and databases as required.
Work with users to understand, define and document business and technical needs and translate such needs into user's requirements.
Make recommendations, provide different alternatives and be able to clearly communicate pros/cons of each.
Commit to and actively work to remain knowledgeable in latest coding languages, database software, system, standards etc.
Become knowledgeable and gain experience with business processes and systems in order to provide effective solutions for various groups within OPC and rest of Supply Chain.
Work with rest of the team, business stakeholders, IT and all levels of Management on integration of CTR systems and processes with rest of the CT Banners.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits and retirement programs
Performance incentives
Continuing Education Programs
Other perks to support your well-being
Career growth opportunities
Product discounts
Competitive salaries and wages
Store discounts
Supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy
Canadian Tire Profit Sharing
Retirement and savings programs for eligible employees
Enhanced flex benefits program
Mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families
Total well-being
Mental health tools and resources for all employees