Engineering Manager

Join a customer-obsessed technology business at the heart of Australia’s largest retailer

Opportunity to work on the latest technology and methodology

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.


What you'll do

As an experienced leader, you will play a key role as an Engineering Manager to lead a versatile team of experienced engineers to design, develop and maintain a consistent, industry standard best practices framework of common capabilities for application development and deployment that provides a secure, high-quality, and well-governed foundation.


This is a role for a technologist with a strong background in application development as well as Infrastructure engineering who can apply their experience and knowledge to influence decisions and develop highly scalable and reliable service patterns. In this role you will have the opportunity to sharpen these skills while evangelising and developing new capabilities that are critical to the organisation’s technology strategy.


The scope of this role will be to focus on managing a team of application and cloud platform engineers to design, develop and maintain the application development and deployment framework for the Woolworths Group.


What you’ll bring

Strong stakeholder management experience along with excellent communication skills

Solid experience in managing a team of Application Engineers and Cloud Platform Engineers (5-10 team members)


Experience with the following Tech Stack:

Cloud - Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform

Microsoft .Net, C#

Expertise in cloud based Microservices patterns and standards

API Gateway

Workload optimisation for performance, cost, security

Application and Hosting Security

GraphQL Technologies

DevSecOps

Observability Platforms


What You’ll Experience

We embrace diversity of thought and love to take on challenges with a pragmatic and innovative approach. Our culture thrives on mutual respect, care, curiosity, openness, and a proactive attitude. We continually seek ways to pair, collaborate, support, and learn from each other as a team!

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.

A global business with endless career possibilities around every corner and across every discipline – with valuable exposure to a vast and exciting business network.

A progressive and flexible ‘work from anywhere' policy that gives you the opportunity to harmonise work, life and your wellbeing.

A range of programs to help you prioritise and manage your wellbeing, including
24/7 access to the Sonder app.