Technology Lead

**About WooliesX
At WooliesX, our people believe in creating better everyday experiences for our community.

With 1,800+ team members, multiple practices and over 100 chapters, there’s a home for everyone here. Whether your interests lie in data driven insights and product engineering, digital media, ecom, operations, customer advocacy, commercial, agile or more, you can find your squad across all kinds of capabilities.

Our squads live their “one day”, every day. We work on Australia’s most innovative tech, design, engineering and more to transform the way that millions of Australians live and shop. Physically, you can find us in Surry Hills, but virtually, we can be anywhere.

Our culture combines the support, care and freedom that comes with being part of the Woolworths Group. We are an agile team embracing diversity of thought and positive change. We thrive on pragmatism, mutual respect, care, curiosity, openness, and a proactive attitude. As a team we continually seek ways to support and learn from each other.

**The Role**

You’re driven by a customer mission and passionate about being part of a tribe of great people. You orient around doing what’s meaningful, purposeful and delivers value. You’re
excited about being part of digital a transformation and disrupting one of Australia’s biggest companies through its new tech venture. You’re curious and empathetic, with an eye for the bigger picture. You deal with complexity by collaborating with colleagues, listening to customers, testing ideas and continuously learning. You take authorship for what you create.
- You are a team player with excellent communication skills.
- You are comfortable with ambiguity and thrive on analysing problems, formulating solutions, and making those a reality.
- You have a passion for quality and know what best-in-class engineering looks like and want to help drive the journey.
- You have years of experience dealing with complex problems at enterprise scale.
- You ‘get’ agile and feel comfortable giving input on team processes.
- You enjoy working in a fast-paced environment.

**Key areas of responsibility**
- Solution Development & Implementation, Systems Development,
- Database/Repository Design.
- Strategy & Architecture. Technical Strategy & Planning, Data Management.
- Service Management, Service Operation, Database Administration.
- Work collaboratively with the Engineering Team, QA, Product Owners and BAs.
- Lead on database development across squads, design solutions and implement optimisations.
- Review developer T-SQL outputs, ensuring high performance and best practices from the teams. Help the developers write complex queries in an optimised manner. Share common patterns/tips and tricks used in the industry to solve similar problems.
- Coach, mentor and help the engineers on the team to improve their database skills.
- Write documentation for processes and procedures (creating KBs, runbooks, topology, etc.).
- term solutions to problems identified.
- Work with infrastructure/ DevOps Engineers and Support DBAs to transfer knowledge across the organisation.
- Proactively identify areas of improvement (design, performance, etc.) and implement changes as part of a squad (scrum team) outputs.
- Setup SQL server environments for development, QA and performance testing. Configure the servers and databases based on the requirement and company policies.
- Help manage the organisation’s database technology and associated schemas to allow secure, efficient and effective access to the data.
- Plan and work with support teams to implement regular system upgrades and ensure alignment across development, test, PT and production environments.
- Help design and establish best practices for disaster recovery in Production.
- Ensure effective access to data and information assets whilst maintaining the requirements of security, privacy and confidentiality.

**Skills Required**:

- Ability to stay calm in challenging circumstances and work through problems methodically.
- Ability to question decisions and challenge the status quo.
- Be detail oriented.
- Good understanding of Agile & Lean delivery principles. Provide input to team processes.
- Excellent communications skills, ability to reach out to others naturally and proactively.
- Experience working closely with or within development teams as well as managing and maintaining production environments.
- Extensive demonstrable enterprise-level (5+ years) experience in database development and support in MS SQL Server Enterprise environments.
- Superb MS SQL Server experience including performance optimisation in high-availability environments, ideally within Azure.
- Ability to write and troubleshoot SQL Code and design (stored procs, functions, tables, views, triggers, indexes, constraints).
- Strong knowledge of backups, restores, recovery models, database shrink operations, DBCC commands, clustering, database mirroring, replication.
- Expert experience in