Architect - Hawthorn East

We’ve been proudly serving Australian communities since 1914 and have grown to become a top 30-listed company on the ASX with a portfolio of iconic homegrown brands. At the heart of our continued success is over 115,000 team members working across the country, all contributing to bringing our customers smiles. You’ll not only get to see your work make a difference, you’ll be part of a team working together to help Australians eat and live better every day.

About the team

Our Technology team is the backbone of the business, building and maintaining the information technology infrastructure that support Coles Group. As a part of the Technology team, you get the opportunity to work through complex, challenging, meaningful problems using large data sets and new technologies to expand your skills and experience.

The Supply Chain Replenishment & Forecasting team is part of the broader Technology function and plays a critical role in enabling efficient, data-driven operations across the business. We deliver high quality technology solutions that strengthen Replenishment, Forecasting, and Commercial capabilities.

Our platforms support a wide portfolio of business critical applications used across Supply Chain operations and commercial teams. As we modernise our technology landscape, this domain is central to improving scalability, automation, and decision making across the organisation. 

About the Role

As an Architect in the Replenishment & Forecasting domain, you will shape and deliver scalable, future ready solutions that support stores and supply chain operations end to end.

You’ll be responsible for designing clear, secure, and pragmatic architectures aligned to enterprise strategy—while ensuring they are actionable for delivery teams. Working closely with product, engineering, and business stakeholders, you’ll translate strategic objectives into tangible technical designs that deliver measurable business outcomes.

This is a hands on architecture role embedded within agile teams. You’ll guide design and implementation, solve complex technical problems, and promote best practices across engineering, integration, and system design.

You’ll also strengthen architecture governance by ensuring consistency across platforms, contributing to Design Authority forums, and guiding architectural decisions in complex, cross domain environments. As a trusted advisor, you’ll partner with senior stakeholders to shape roadmaps and ensure alignment between commercial priorities and long term technology strategy.

Beyond delivery, you’ll drive innovation across the domain—exploring and validating emerging technologies such as AI, automation, IoT, and advanced analytics. You’ll lead proof of concepts and support the adoption of modern engineering practices, including cloud native development, microservices, DevOps, and API first design. 

About You

Core Experience
•    6+ years in technology architecture roles, operating as a Solution Architect or Principal Engineer within large, complex organisations
•    Proven experience defining domain or enterprise architecture strategies and translating them into actionable roadmaps
•    Strong track record delivering major transformation initiatives, including legacy modernisation, platform consolidation, cloud migration, and enterprise integration uplift

Domain & Technical Expertise
•    Experience in retail or similarly complex, multi site operational environments
•    Deep understanding of replenishment, forecasting, logistics, store operations, and retail technology ecosystems
•    Hands on experience with advanced analytics, Agentic AI, and complex system integration
•    Strong knowledge of modern architecture patterns: microservices, event driven and cloud native architectures, API led design, distributed systems, and edge computing
•    Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), SaaS integration, CI/CD tooling, API management, security architecture, and enterprise data flows
•    Solid understanding of data architecture, governance, compliance, and resilience patterns for large scale systems

Leadership & Influence
•    Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment across divergent priorities
•    Experience operating within federated or matrixed architecture environments
•    Strong systems thinking, conceptual modelling, and analytical skills
•    Ability to communicate complex technical concepts in clear, business relevant terms
•    Balanced mindset—combining innovation with pragmatism to deliver sustainable, scalable outcomes

Desirable
•    Familiarity with architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman, or similar (certification advantageous)

If you’re passionate about architecture and thrive in complex, fast paced environments where you can influence meaningful outcomes, we’d love to hear from you.

What’s in it for you?

• Flexible working options: We know that work is only one part of your life, so we actively encourage a positive work-life balance and provide hybrid working options to help you achieve it.
• Office perks: Take advantage of our gym facility and fitness classes, free parking, BBQ area, mini-Coles supermarket, fooderie hub where you can sample new products before they hit the shelves, school holiday program and so much more when you come in.
• Discounts: Eligible team members receive 5% discount all year round on your Supermarket and Liquor online and in-store purchases. We also offer additional periods of double discount (10%) at various times throughout the year. As well as hotdeals exclusive to team members that translate into additional savings.
• Reward through recognition: Give and receive recognition, linked to our Coles values, through our digital recognition platform ‘mythanks’. You can accumulate points to redeem in the online shop for exciting gifts and electronic gift cards from an extensive range of retailers.
• Opportunities for learning and development: No matter where you start within our diverse business, you’ll have experiences, exposure, and education to satisfy you. Discover and explore a variety of career development programs and job-specific training.
• Paid parental leave: We understand how important your life outside work is and offer permanent team members paid parental leave to support you in balancing work and family.
• Investment in your future: Our annual team member share plan offer allows eligible team members to make regular pre-tax salary sacrifice deductions to purchase Coles Group shares.

About the recruitment process

We’re continuing to build a gender equitable team, and a culture that is just as diverse, inclusive and welcoming as the communities we serve. We are committed to creating a workplace that is safe and respectful for our team. We encourage applications from people of all ages, cultures (including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples), abilities, sexual orientation and gender identities.

We’re happy to adjust our recruitment process to support candidates with disability. For further information and additional contact details visit the ‘Our Recruitment Process’ section of our careers site or email inclusionrecruitment@coles.com.au

Job ID: 182656

Employment Type: Full time

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