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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.’
The Opportunity
The Principal Engineer works across all squads and chapters in the Sub-Domain, with a focus on the most complex and highest impact technical changes or implementations.
The role will be responsible to produce and maintain Solution Architectures and roadmaps that meet business requirements, are fit for purpose, align with the company's IT strategic directions and offer value for money.
What you’ll do
- Collaborate with the Domain Principal Architect to define the target architecture and with Engineering Practice leads to align future engineering capabilities with business strategy.
- Helping the Heads of Engineering to validate the quality and consistency of engineering deliverables for the Sub-Domain
- Validating that a pragmatic path is taken towards the future state architecture for the Domain
- Ensuring that the most complex and highest impact technical decisions are made in an informed and well thought through way
- Ensuring that Chapter teams effectively engage with key engineering teams outside the Domain such as Cyber Security and Platform Engineering
What you’ll bring
- Possessing strong technical and leadership skills, you'll translate business strategy into cohesive application, information, and technology engineering functions, utilizing excellent communication and influencing skills to engage effectively with senior business and technology stakeholders.
- Experienced engineering leader with 8+ years in solution design, API management, and transformation programs, adept at working with both COTS and custom applications.
- Skilled in cloud infrastructure (IaaS) with Terraform, network design (subnets, access control), and troubleshooting full-stack performance bottlenecks.
- Strong grasp of data modeling, including abstract, logical, physical, data, and state models, with exposure to SQL (MS SQL Server, MySQL) and NoSQL performance tuning.
- Expert in large-scale web eCommerce (preferably Retail), agile methodologies, event-driven architecture, and cloud environments like Google and Azure.
What you’ll experience
- Hybrid Flexibility: Blend in-office engagement with work-from-home opportunities for a balanced work week.
- A global business with endless career possibilities around every corner and across every discipline – with valuable exposure to a vast and exciting business network.
- 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.
- 12 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers plus paid superannuation for up to 12 months while the Team Member is on parental leave - eligible from the first day of employment
Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group
As one of the largest employers in Australia and Current 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.
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📌 Principal Engineer
🏢 Woolworths Group
📍 City of Sydney