Founded in 1930, Publix Super Markets is the largest and fastest-growing employee-owned supermarket chain in the United States. Publix employs over 200,000 associates. We are privately-owned, hold no long-term debt, have avoided layoffs, and continue to grow year after year. Publix and our associates excel in community involvement, volunteerism and environmental sustainability.  Our collective commitment to diversity has contributed to our success in being a great place to work and shop.

Industry: Retail
Company Size: 10,001+ employees

Publix Super Markets

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**Description**

Publix Super Markets, Inc., the largest employee-owned company in the U.S., is driven by a dynamic technology team of 2,300+ professionals delivering innovative solutions to 1,400+ stores and 200,000+ associates across 8 states. From IT security and platform engineering to architecture, software development, and infrastructure, we offer career opportunities at every level—internships through technical leadership. Join a company consistently ranked among Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” and help us build more than great subs—build the future of technology at Publix.

Join Publix Technology as a Senior Business Systems Analyst and become part of the Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) Integration Development team, designing, building, and implementing applications that supports Publix growing distribution network of 10 Distribution Centers and 33 warehouses. High level WMS functions include receiving and putting away product, managing inventory, processing and selecting store orders, shipping and loading product, and integrating product movement with host systems.

In this role, you will lead project planning and estimation, manage project delivery execution, and support the design and development of integrations for a modern WMS. You will develop detailed technical requirements, create user stories, manage and prioritize the product backlog, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions. By working closely with product owners, QA, architecture, and engineering teams, you will help deliver secure, compliant solutions that align with business objectives.

The ideal candidate will have strong analytical, planning, problem‑solving, and communication skills, with the ability to effectively engage and drive results with project stakeholders.

Location: Hybrid (Lakeland, FL)

**Work Model**

Enjoy the best of both worlds—collaborate in person and innovate remotely.

Why Join Us?

- Hybrid Flexibility: Work remotely when you need focus time and join us onsite for high-impact collaboration and brainstorming sessions.

- Operational Efficiency: Ensure technology solutions support efficient workflows and enable automation to improve operational effectiveness.

- Empowered Culture: We value autonomy, creativity, and continuous learning—your ideas shape the future of technology in our organization.

Your Impact

- Facilitate requirements sessions and document business/system needs with stakeholders

- Champion product vision, prioritize backlog, and track deliverables for timely completion

- Communicate project and product status to leadership and stakeholders

- Collaborate with analysts to document processes, gather requirements, and identify improvements

- Partner with Architecture, Security, Compliance, and Audit to design secure, reliable solutions

- Develop detailed implementation plans for complex technology solutions

- Diagnose issues and define escalation paths for complex problems

- Oversee delivery processes: system access, data protection, and vendor engagement

- Align proposed solutions with agreed scope and limitations across teams

- Define acceptance criteria, conduct UAT, and validate deliverables

- Advocate for business needs to ensure solutions meet user and process requirements

- Monitor industry trends and recommend innovative solutions aligned with strategy

- Provide after-hours deployment support, troubleshoot issues, and coordinate vendor resolutions

- Leverage AI tools to drive productivity improvements across the systems development lifecycle

**Required Qualifications**

- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Business, or a related analytical field or equivalent experience

- 5+ years’ business experience planning, organizing, and managing all activities associated with delivering solutions in a large-scale distributed environment

- 5+ years of experience analyzing problems and translating into solutions.

- 3+ years of experience working with enterprise database management systems (e.g., SQL server, Oracle)

- 3+ years’ experience translating complex business needs into clear technical requirements and user stories

- 3+ years’ experience utilizing Agile project management and code management tools (e.g., Azure DevOps or Jira)

- Working knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) with the ability to work within the defined roles and responsibilities.

- Provide after‑hours support during and after the deployment of the application as needed, including researching complex issues, determining root cause, workaround development, and coordination with vendors for resolution

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Experience with commercial Warehouse Management Systems integration and implementation support, e.g. Blue Yonder, Infor, Körber, Manhattan Associates, SAP, etc.

- Knowledge of infrastructure and systems concepts

- Experience performing data analysis through creating and executing queries, interpreting results, and communicating findings to technical and business audiences

- Experience working as a Scrum Master within an Agile Scrum framework and its application in product development and delivery

- Experience utilizing Agile project management and code management tools, i.e. Azure DevOps or Jira

- Experience supporting high volume, mission-critical applications built with C#, .NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and object-oriented design principles, RESTful APIs, and SQL

- Experience with modern Windows systems architecture including Azure, API driven integrations, and/or microservices

- Experience designing enterprise class solutions using object-oriented analysis and design, design patterns, UML, service-oriented architecture and solution frameworks

- Experience with collaboration tools, like MIRO

- Ability to work concurrently on multiple assignments with similar deadlines

**Benefits Information**

- 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, dental and vision plans

- Paid Time Off

- Paid Parental Leave

- Short- and long-term disability insurance

- Tuition reimbursement

- Free hot lunches (buffet-style) at facilities with a cafeteria

- Visit our website to see all of our benefits: Benefits - Jobs (publix.com)

**Year End Bonus**

As a year-end bonus to associates, Publix issues one month’s extra pay (pro-rated in the first year) each year if associate remains employed through issue date of the bonus check that year. This is calculated as a 13th month of pay in the Potential Annual Pay with Bonus line above.

**Additional Information**

Your application may have additional steps that you will need to complete in order to remain eligible for consideration. Please be sure to monitor your email, including your spam folder, on a daily basis for critical, time-sensitive emails that could require action within 24-48 hours. Please do not use your Publix email address when applying. Once your application has been successfully submitted you will receive a confirmation email.

***Relocation/Household Good Shipment Allowance will NOT be provided.***

Senior Business Systems Analyst - WMS

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