Senior Engineering Practice Lead

3 weeks ago


Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Woolworths Full time

About the Role

The Senior Engineering Practice Lead will provide strategic direction to the Chapters within the Engineering Practice at Woolworths. This role will enable the engineering team to adapt, grow, and innovate capabilities to be world-class. The successful candidate will be responsible for right-sizing, efficiency, continuous improvement, and quality of capabilities in the business and building the talent pipeline and future leaders.

Key Responsibilities

  • Guiding the team with the right engineering capabilities, capacity, and practices to deliver Woolworths' priorities
  • Driving the correct Engineering Practice and Chapters to maximize team engagement and delivery effectiveness
  • Ensuring alignment with the Practices model implemented across the broader Tech-X team
  • Providing thought-leadership on technologies, tools, and processes/standards used by squads
  • Collaborating with the Solution Architecture team to ensure target state architecture and technology decisions align with the Engineering Practice roadmap
  • Ensuring technology choices made by squads align with the strategic architecture agreed with the Solution Architecture team
  • Helping Technology Delivery Managers and Group Product Managers balance delivery and capacity tradeoffs
  • Leading the recruitment, talent-pipeline, and professional development processes for engineers
  • Coaching squads on solving complex technology problems
  • Coaching Chapter Leads/Tech Leads on ensuring solutions are performant, secure, cost-effective, reliable, deployable, testable, and evolvable, and tech-debt is effectively managed

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience leading engineering teams with multiple squads
  • Strong background with hands-on engineering delivery using modern web technologies across the full stack
  • Agile software delivery experience
  • Exceptional communication and problem-solving skills

About Woolworths

As part of the wider Woolworths Group, we care deeply about creating a workplace where our team members feel valued, respected, and empowered. We are committed to providing equal opportunity regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, or life stage. We are proud to be recognized as a Gold Tier Employer in the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTQ+ inclusion and as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.

We encourage our team members to grow and make a real difference by providing ongoing opportunities to develop and innovate. If you meet a number of the requirements, but not all, we encourage you to submit your application.



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