Engineering Lead - 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 Engineering Lead guides team of engineers in designing, building and delivering high-quality software solutions. The role blends hands-on technical expertise with leadership, mentoring, and strategic thinking. The Lead ensures engineering excellence, drives best practices, and collaborates closely with product, design, and business stakeholders to deliver impactful outcomes.
Responsibilities
People Leadership
- Responsible for leading a small group of team members in the engineering centre of enablement, providing specialist skills, knowledge and advice on Coles’ technology platforms and supporting software
- Provide leadership and manage team members performance, development, training, and career pathways, ensuring culturally aligned organisational behaviours and continuous improvement is embedded to optimise organisational outcomes
- Coach the team towards the desired behaviours, shared values, and high performance (as individuals and as a team)
- Provide feedback & guidance and promote a culture of collaboration, inclusiveness, openness, and safety
Engineering Enablement & Delivery
- Support and enable as necessary the design, planning, implementation, and release of relevant engineering enablement capabilities across the projects, programs, and agile squads
- Work collaboratively with architecture and product teams to define and own the engineering strategy and roadmap for the assigned platform
- Provide strategic direction by implementing best practices, processes and continuous improvement initiatives
- Support and contribute to the definition of engineering standards and promote their adoption
- Support enablement of engineering through early engagement with projects and programs
- Support and guidance around alignment of capabilities and practices with quality objectives
- Attend and participate in the Engineering community of practice
- Peer review estimates and solution architecture/design with Architecture to ensure alignment to the group standards
- Ensuring governance, compliance, data quality, metrics, completeness, and accuracy of metadata, are integral to the capability
- Defining, baselining and operationalisation of key quality metrics
- Deliver software projects, ensuring timelines and high quality
- Identify risks, remove blockers and ensure smooth execution
- Align engineering efforts with business goals and customer needs
Skills & Experience
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 2+ years in a leadership or senior technical role
- Strong proficiency in modern programming languages (e.g. Java, C#, Python, JavaScript, API etc.)
- Experience with cloud platforms i.e. Azure, AWS
- Deep understanding of system design, distributed systems, and scalable architectures
- Familiarity with Azure Pipelines, containerization
- Strong debugging, performance turning and problem-solving abilities
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to balance technical depth with strategic thinking
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability
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: 174672
Employment Type: Full time