Associated Wholesale Grocers are hiring a IT Sr. Solution Engineer – Development/ Integration

IT Sr. Solution Engineer – Development / Integration 

Location: 5000 Kansas Avenue Kansas City, KS 66106

Department: IT

Work Model: Onsite

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Overview:

The Solution Engineer is the premier customer-facing role serving as an advisor, subject-matter expert, and delivery partner for our customers.  As an experienced Engineer with a focus on solution development and implementation, you’ll be responsible for guiding our customers from concept, through development and testing to go-live and rollout. You are a passionate technologist who is up to date on the latest technologies, can dive into processes, and loves applying your skills to solve a customer challenge.  The Solution Engineer develops new and modifies existing functionality.  As needed, conduct research into existing and legacy code to determine needed interfaces and functionality.   Work with existing and new SaaS products to support the underlying business function.

Responsibilities:

Deliver Solutions (30%) 

• Work with limited supervision to develop solutions based on requirements using AWG standards. 

• Work with other team members on various solutions

• Deliver technical solutions of the highest quality and on time, on budget

• Creates and executes designs for small sets of new functionalities as part of a software project using Java, Spring Boot, React, or similar

• Provides reliable solutions to a variety of problems using sound problem solving techniques

Support Availability and Services (25%)

• Troubleshoot and develop a solution to the problem with the support of teammates 

• Engages with and supports other development teams 

• On-call responsibilities as needed

Develop IT Strategy (25%)

• Collaborate with customers to understand their business problems or needs and desired outcomes

• Contributes to technical research on new technologies 

• In collaboration with other members of the team, build reusable assets and materials that enable the AWG community

Development and Continuous Improvement Culture (20%)

• Work closely with team members to develop, troubleshoot, and deliver solutions.

• Continuous improvement mentality

• Open to receive and give constructive feedback

• In collaboration with other members of the team, build reusable assets and materials that enable the AWG community

Requirements:

Previous Experience & Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering, computer science, computer information systems, or related degree, or experience

• At least 5 years of application development experience

• Experience developing applications and services (APIs) using React, Java, and Spring Boot (or similar) 

• Experience with source code repository using GitHub, Azure DevOps or others 

• Experience with source code branching using Gitflow, trunk-base or similar 

• Knowledge of microservices architecture

• Knowledge in designing, developing, and implementing high performing, large scale, and complex systems including integration with third-party applications 

• Experience executing the organizational operation of vision and goals, in alignment with department leadership 

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills 

• Accomplished interpersonal and communication skills, demonstrating a clear and articulate standard of written and verbal communications to various levels of audiences 

• Ability to work independently, self-starter, highly motivated, resourceful 

• Demonstrated knowledge of multiple technologies over career and ability to learn new technologies 

• Ability to work as a committed member of a cross-functional team, sharing ideas and input from different perspectives in working towards delivering exceptional product experience 

• Solid experience with full SDLC – requirements, design, development, testing, and deployment using waterfall and/or agile methodologies 

• Experience working with relational databases and SQL

• Excels in working remotely with remote team members

• Retail, wholesale, or Consumer Product Goods industry experience

Knowledge & Skills:

• Retail, wholesale, or Consumer Product Goods industry experience 

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• ETL development experience

• Demonstrated knowledge of multiple technologies over career and ability to learn new technologies

• Ability to work as a committed member of a cross-functional team, sharing ideas and inputs from different perspectives in working towards delivering an exceptional product experience

• Knowledge of microservices architecture

• Knowledge in designing, developing, and implementing high performing, large scale, and complex systems including integration with third-party applications

• Knowledge in solution evaluation/selection and implementation for large scale, and complex environments

• Knowledge of Azure/AWS/ cloud or managed services

• Knowledge of security best practices (OWASP, CBE, NIST, etc.)

• Knowledge of containerization technology (Docker; orchestration tools, i.e. Kubernetes)

• Experience with common programming languages (React, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS)

• Knowledge of event-based/message architecture

• Knowledge of virtual networking (public, private, and hybrid networks and subnetworks), network interfaces, and identity/access management (security groups and roles, network access control lists)

• Knowledge of latest DevOps technologies (Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines, IaC frameworks such as Ansible)

• Knowledge in solution evaluation/selection and implementation for large scale, and complex environment

Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc. (AWG) is the nation’s largest cooperative food wholesaler to independently owned supermarkets, serving 1,100 member companies and 3,500 locations throughout 33 states from 9 wholesale division support centers. Consolidated sales for AWG in 2025 were $12.2 billion. In addition to its cooperative wholesale operations, the company also operates subsidiary companies that provide certain real estate and supermarket development services, and pharmaceutical products. For more information, visit AWGinc.com.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance
• Health Savings Account
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• Paid Vacation, Holiday, and Sick Time
• 401(k) with 4% match along with 3 other contributions
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Basic & Supplemental Life and AD&D
• Employee Assistance Program
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability 
• Wellness Program
• Yearly Holiday Bonus