Domain Architect - Enterprise Engineering - 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.

About the role:

The Domain Architect – Enterprise Engineering owns the enterprise-wide integration architecture for Coles. This role defines the vision, standards, and guardrails that ensure systems across all domains integrate in a consistent, scalable, secure, and resilient way. 

You will lead a team of senior domain architects, work closely with Engineering and Platform teams, and influence senior business and technology leaders to make high quality, long-term architectural decisions. This role sets the bar for integration design and ensures architecture enables speed, reliability, and future growth at enterprise scale. 

Key responsibilities: 

Enterprise Integration Strategy 

• Define and own the enterprise integration architecture vision and target state 

• Establish standard integration patterns (API, event driven, messaging, data movement) 

• Ensure integration architecture aligns to business strategy and technology direction 

• Drive simplification, reuse, and reduction of fragmentation across the enterprise 

Architecture Standards & Governance 

• Set and enforce enterprise integration standards and reference architectures 

• Lead design governance for complex, high impact initiatives 

• Ensure architectural decisions balance delivery speed with long term sustainability 

• Raise the quality bar for integration design across all domains 
   

Engineering & Delivery Partnership 

• Partner deeply with Engineering, Platform, and Product teams 

• Embed architecture early to accelerate delivery and reduce rework 

• Ensure architecture is practical, consumable, and delivery focused 

• Support teams to make sound architectural trade offs at pace 

Leadership & People 

• Lead, coach, and develop senior integration and domain architects 

• Build a strong, aligned architecture community across domains 

• Foster a culture of ownership, deep thinking, and continuous improvement 

• Informally develop future architecture leaders across Technology 

Stakeholder Influence 

• Communicate complex architecture clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences 

• Influence Directors, GMs, and senior leaders without direct authority 

• Act as a trusted advisor on integration risk, investment, and architectural direction 

About you and your skills:

To be successful, you will have extensive experience delivering the following:

• Consistent, high quality integration designs across all domains 

• Faster delivery enabled by clear standards and trusted patterns 

• Reduced duplication and technical debt across integration platforms 

• Enterprise architecture realised progressively through delivery 

• Architecture recognised as an enabler of business outcomes 

• Extensive experience in enterprise scale integration architecture 

• Proven success in large, complex, distributed environments 

• Strong knowledge of APIs, event driven architectures, messaging, and platforms 

• Experience setting and governing enterprise architecture standards 

• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders 

• Retail or similarly complex industry experience highly regarded 

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: 178685

Employment Type: Full time