Data Architec

We’ve been trusted to serve Aussie communities since 1914 and grown to become a top 30-listed on the ASX with 120,000 team members and a portfolio of iconic brands. At Coles Group, you’ll not only get to make a difference to millions of Aussie lives—you’ll also get to see your impact.

**About the team**

Technology is the backbone of our business. Every day, our team solves complex and meaningful problems. Those solutions help thousands of our fellow team members succeed and make millions of customers’ lives easier every day.

**About the role**

At Coles, we are transforming our approach to data architecture. With the rapid pace of change in data technology ecosystem we believe in doing architecture by experimenting, learning, and adapting. There is a fundamental shift towards experiment-driven technology and architecture decisioning.

You will be a part of the centralised Architecture team which is responsible for all facets of technology architecture across the company.

You will play a key role in the executing Coles data strategy through technical product leadership of data cloud technology initiatives. You will be responsible for delivering architectural excellence in the Coles data transformation program. You will have accountability of architecture of data platforms to support democratisation of insights and advanced analytics capabilities across Coles Brand.

You will work closely with the business and data engineering teams to design cloud data platform solutions as well as introduce architectural patterns and technology solution options that will transition Coles to a data driven organisation.

In this role you will
- Work closely with the leadership teams from Enterprise data function, data engineering, security, infrastructure, and data science to drive the outcomes for Coles shared data strategy.
- Ability to translate functional and non-functional requirements to cloud data services architecture for optimum business return on cloud investment
- Driving functional outcomes by planning and prioritising technical product features for a data platform.

**About you & your skills**

You have hands on experience in building and designing data platforms that can manage reporting and data science workloads as well as bimodal operating model for a large-scale data program. You will also have:

- Experience in a large enterprise environment doing complex data integration, using data lakes, warehouses, analytical and AI solutions, governance solutions (metadata, master data, reference data, lineage), business process transformations driven by data and event-driven solutions involving platforms
- Experience or knowledge in some (not all) of the below would be great: Cloud data platforms, Cloud storage stack, Event Hub/Kafka, Metadata Management, Databricks/Spark or cloud equivalent complex data engineering compute tool, Snowflake/Synapse/BQ/Redshift Cloud Data Warehouse, Cloud data security and privacy or Data Factory or cloud equivalent data pipelines orchestration tool

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With us it’s not about the discounts (although you do get those), it’s about joining a team where your wellbeing and professional development is invested in and celebrating your contributions is the norm. And because everyone leads unique lives, we offer flexible work including work from home, additional leave and parental leave entitlements.

**Safer together**

Job ID: 67311

Employment Type: Full time