Provide thought leadership on engineering methods and decisions
Translate technology strategy into high-quality, tangible solutions
Surry Hills based 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
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.
In consultation with the Sub-Domain and Domain Leadership team the role has the flexibility to identify the areas that should be given focus and to dive as deep as necessary to ensure the team is set up for technical success. This requires experience and expertise across the end to end technical stack from cloud infrastructure, networks, storage, security, backend, web and mobile engineering.
The role will also 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.
The role will be involved in coaching and guiding squads through the application lifecycle including design, development, testing and deployment. Where appropriate it will involve building PoC capabilities to validate assumptions before more significant investments are made in technology or team time.
The role will partner closely with the Domain Principal Architect to shape the target state view of the Domain’s architecture and to ensure a lens of pragmatism is applied when planning the transition.
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.
Proficient in cloud-native and web technologies, including Kubernetes, REST APIs, asynchronous design patterns, and modern .NET web frameworks.
Experience in Agentic Development Life Cycle and workflows
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 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.
Woolworths Group is an inclusive, team-first company and we value all skills and experiences. If you meet some, but not all of the requirements, we encourage you to submit your application.
