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.

Summary

The Engineering Manager leads engineers and senior engineers across one or multiple squads. You will be accountable for building engaged, capable and high-performing engineering teams; ensuring engineering standards and ways of working are applied; managing engineering risks and dependencies; and supporting delivery of the Skyline roadmap from an engineering execution perspective.

The role requires someone with strong people leadership, engineering judgement, delivery awareness, stakeholder management and operational ownership. The Engineering Manager must be able to operate effectively with Product Managers, Delivery Leads, Tech Leads, Principal Engineers and senior stakeholders.

Required Experience

• Leading engineering teams in complex digital, platform, infrastructure or technology environments
• Line managing engineers and supporting performance, development and career growth
• Building high-performing teams through coaching, feedback and continuous improvement
• Working with Product Managers, Delivery Leads, Architects and senior technology stakeholders
• Managing engineering delivery in agile or product-centric environments
• Managing engineering risks, dependencies, delivery metrics and operational issues
• Supporting incident response, PIRs and service health improvement
• Managing vendors, suppliers, consultants or delivery partners
• Working with modern engineering practices, including CI/CD, automation, testing, observability and operational readiness
• Balancing feature delivery, technical debt, quality and resilience

Key Responsibilities

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  Engineering delivery leadership - Support delivery of the product roadmap from an engineering execution, define and track engineering delivery metrics, manage engineering risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies

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  Engineering ways of working - Establish and support engineering ceremonies, maintain Jira and Confluence hygiene for engineering artefacts, drive continuous improvement across squads

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  Engineering quality and technical health - Ensure engineering standards are met, work with Tech Leads and Principal Engineers to implement technical direction, support software quality improvement

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  Operational accountability - Support monitoring and process implementation, reduce repeat incidents through root cause analysis and durable improvements, support “you build it, you run it” behaviours where appropriate

Skills & Capabilities

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  People leadership - Coaching and feedback, performance management, career development

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  Engineering leadership - Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, ability to identify engineering risks and quality gaps, understanding of agile delivery, CI/CD, automation, testing and operational readiness

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  Delivery and operational management - Delivery planning with Delivery Leads, roadmap execution support with Product Managers, vendor and partner management

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  Stakeholder management - Clear communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders, ability to manage leadership relationships across product, delivery and engineering

What's in it for you?

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  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: 190629

Employment Type: Full time

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