Senior Engineering Manager

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 your skills and experience.

About the role

This newly created role will provide engineering leadership across the Loyalty and Coles Plus Accelerator transformation programs, accountable for delivery outcomes, engineering strategy, and the evolution of modern, scalable, and innovative technology solutions. This is a 2 year fixted term contract and the successful Senior Engineering Manager must have experience with financial management, loyalty, offer management or martech.

Core Responsibilities

Engineering Leadership & Strategy

Provide end-to-end engineering leadership across transformation programs, defining and executing engineering strategy aligned to business outcomes and enterprise architecture

Own engineering decision-making across the domain, ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient, secure, and commercially optimised

Embed modern engineering practices (cloud-native, platform thinking, API-first, DevSecOps)

Technoloy Innovation & AI Enablement

Identify, evaluate, and drive adoption of emerging technologies, including AI/ML, automation, and data-driven capabilities, to accelerate business value

Partner with architecture and data teams to assess AI maturity, define use cases, and prioritise experimentation and scaled adoption

Establish guardrails for responsible AI, ensuring compliance with privacy, security, and ethical standards

Foster a culture of innovation through proof-of-concepts, pilots, and continuous technology uplift

About Delivery & Execution

Ensure consistent, high-quality engineering delivery across multiple programs, balancing speed, quality, and risk

Drive alignment between engineering, product, architecture, and delivery to ensure execution against priorities

Maintain accountability for release governance, production readiness, and successful deployment across interconnected systems

People Leadership

Lead and develop a high-performing team across Principal Engineers, Engineering Managers, Technical Leads, Engineers, and Business Analysts

Create clear accountability across engineering and analysis functions to ensure alignment of design, delivery, and value realisation

Foster a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence

Governance, Risk & Financial Oversight

Oversee engineering governance, including technical standards, design assurance, and quality controls

Proactively manage risks, dependencies, and delivery challenges across platforms, vendors, and business units

Own financial oversight of engineering delivery, ensuring optimal use of resources and alignment to business outcomes

Cross-Functional & Executive Engagement

Drive strong collaboration across engineering, architecture, product, delivery, security, and vendor partners

Influence senior stakeholders and peers to align on scalable, future-fit solutions

Provide clear executive reporting on delivery, risks, outcomes, and strategic opportunities

Operational Excellenece

Ensure solutions are supportable and operationally robust, with clear ownership models and monitoring in place

Drive continuous improvement across engineering practices, tooling, and delivery processes

Champion reliability, performance, and platform stability

What's in it for you?

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: 188635

Employment Type: Fixed Term

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