Woolworths

• Opportunity to work across cutting edge technology
• Collaborate with some of the brightest and best minds in Australia
• Sydney based role with a hybrid working model

We are Woolworths Group
We are Woolworths Group. 200,000+ bright minds, passionate hearts and unique perspectives connected by a shared Purpose – ‘to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow.’ It’s that Purpose that fuels our ambition to explore new ideas, make brave commitments and innovate better ways to meet the food and everyday needs of more than 24 million customers every week.

If you’re excited to turn today’s blue sky thinking into a better tomorrow for future generations, you’ll find yourself supported and enriched in a dynamic, inclusive and empowering workplace that reflects the diverse communities we serve. With a culture of genuine care, a flexible approach to work and opportunities across the group to grow your career and make a meaningful impact, the possibilities for what we can achieve together are endless.

The Opportunity

Reporting to the Sub-Domain Head of Engineering within Digital Technology and in partnership with the Technology Leaders of the Domain, Tribe Leads and squad members, this role will provide thought-leadership on engineering methods and decisions for the domain. This role will be pivotal in solving the most complex technical challenges faced by the Domain, and ensuring the technology strategy for the Domain is translated into tangible solutions of high quality.

What you’ll do

You will require excellent technical and leadership skills, and be able to translate a business strategy and understand how application, information and technology engineering functions come together. As you will engage with senior business & technology stakeholders, you will require excellent communication & influencing skills. 

In addition you will:

• Help establish and develop a high performance culture within the team
• Create an inclusive and diverse culture that minimises biases, creates a sense of belonging
• Achieve outcomes across the organisation without relying on hierarchical authority
• Lean into difficult conversations with team to ensure the best outcome for the business
• Facilitate trade-off decisions and remove roadblocks to ensure teams can deliver maximum value at maximum pace
• Distil complex situations and problems into solution sets and recommendations that can be easily understood by diverse stakeholder groups, and that motivate aligned action
• Ensure that dependencies and risks across the business are understood and effectively managed to achieve target outcomes

 What you’ll bring

• 8+ years of experience in engineering leadership roles.
• Demonstrated experience in solution design
• Demonstrated experience working across hosted cloud environments in Kubernetes
• Experience developing solutions based on REST APIs.
• Experienced in Large Web eCommerce sites (preference Retail)
• Understanding of Cloud Infrastructure (IAAS) technology (terraform)
• Experience in API Management
• Experience in DDD
• Experience with abstract, logical, physical, data & state models
• Experience of working on transformation programs
• Experienced in network design subnets, access control
• Experience in troubleshooting bottlenecks performance issues across the full stack
• Experience in Asynchronous design patterns 
• Demonstrated experience working across both commercially off the shelf and custom built applications
• Exposure to Google and Azure infrastructure that is used in modern web architecture
• Exposure to MS SQL server and MySql performance tuning
• Exposure to design with NoSQL
• Exposure to Event Driven Architecture
• Worked in Agile environments.
• Worked with Modern JavaScript (React) Web Framework
• Worked with Modern Node Web Framework
• Worked with Modern Java and/or .NET

What you’ll Experience

• Team Discounts - Team discounts across our range of Woolworths Group brands you know and love and a robust rewards program that celebrates and incentivises purpose-driven work.
• Wellness - Access to Sonder. Sonder provides free confidential 24/7 personalised financial, medical safety, psychological or physical support for team members and their families. 

Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group
 As one of the largest employers in Australia and New Zealand, we aim to create a truly inclusive workplace where everyone feels that they belong, can be their best selves, and reach their full potential.

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. We recognise the value our team’s diversity brings to our business, customers, and communities and that teams with diverse experiences and backgrounds enrich our group and are better able to innovate and solve problems.