A new role means a new way to win together. We’ve been proudly serving Australian communities since 1914 and at the heart of our continued success lies our 115,000 team members working across the country. If you’re looking for a career-defining opportunity, take the next step and explore another way your work can have impact and make a difference.
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.
A Principal Engineer is the technical conscience and strategic enabler across multiple teams balancing hands-on depth with organisation-wide influence. This is a senior technical leadership role responsible for:
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Guiding engineering across multiple squads and platforms
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Acting as a trusted advisor on architecture and technology decisions
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Driving scalable, resilient, and enterprise-aligned solutions
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Bridging engineering, architecture, product, and business strategy
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Provide technical leadership, mentorship and coaching across multiple engineering squads, helping engineers and technical leads grow their technical capability
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Lead architecture and evolution of loyalty platforms, including membership, rewards, benefits, and partner ecosystems
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Design scalable solutions supporting high-volume customer interactions and transactions
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Drive modernisation toward API-first, event-driven loyalty architectures
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Experience designing and delivering large-scale, distributed and highly available systems in complex enterprise environments
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Demonstrated expertise in Azure cloud services and best practices across architecture, security, governance, and operations
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Strong understanding of software architecture, integration patterns, APIs, event-driven systems and cloud-native design principles
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A minimum of 10 years' experience in software engineering, solution design or technical leadership role
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Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership across multiple teams, products or technology domains
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Deep expertise in Azure cloud technologies, including cloud architecture, security, networking, observability and platform services
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Strong hands-on experience with Java, Kotlin and .NET technology stacks and modern application development practices
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Experience evaluating technology vendors, platforms and commercial solutions
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Proven ability to mentor engineers and technical leads, fostering engineering capability and technical excellence
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Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence technical decisions across multiple levels of the organisation
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills
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Tertiary qualifications in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or a related discipline
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Loyalty systems / rewards platforms / subscription programs
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Offer management and campaign execution platforms
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Customer data platforms (CDP) and personalisation engines
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Customer segmentation and targeting
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Identity resolution and customer profiles
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Real-time vs batch decisioning architectures
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Integrating MarTech ecosystems in large enterprises
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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 [email protected]
Job ID: 187413
Employment Type: Full time
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