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IT / Software / Data Analyst
Principal Software Engineer
IT / Software / Data Analyst
#46692
Remote / WFH
Coles Group
Job Description
A new role means a new way to win together. We’ve been proudly serving Australian communities since 1914 and at the heart of our continued success lies our 115,000 team members working across the country. If you’re looking for a career-defining opportunity, take the next step and explore another way your work can have impact and make a difference.
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.
About the role
A Principal Engineer is the technical conscience and strategic enabler across multiple teams balancing hands-on depth with organisation-wide influence. This is a senior technical leadership role responsible for:
Guiding engineering across multiple squads and platforms
Acting as a trusted advisor on architecture and technology decisions
Driving scalable, resilient, and enterprise-aligned solutions
Bridging engineering, architecture, product, and business strategy
You will
Provide technical leadership, mentorship and coaching across multiple engineering squads, helping engineers and technical leads grow their technical capability
Lead architecture and evolution of loyalty platforms, including membership, rewards, benefits, and partner ecosystems
Design scalable solutions supporting high-volume customer interactions and transactions
Drive modernisation toward API-first, event-driven loyalty architectures
Experience
Experience designing and delivering large-scale, distributed and highly available systems in complex enterprise environments
Demonstrated expertise in Azure cloud services and best practices across architecture, security, governance, and operations
Strong understanding of software architecture, integration patterns, APIs, event-driven systems and cloud-native design principles
A minimum of 10 years' experience in software engineering, solution design or technical leadership role
Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership across multiple teams, products or technology domains
Deep expertise in Azure cloud technologies, including cloud architecture, security, networking, observability and platform services
Strong hands-on experience with Java, Kotlin and .NET technology stacks and modern application development practices
Experience evaluating technology vendors, platforms and commercial solutions
Proven ability to mentor engineers and technical leads, fostering engineering capability and technical excellence
Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence technical decisions across multiple levels of the organisation
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Tertiary qualifications in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or a related discipline.
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.
About the role
A Principal Engineer is the technical conscience and strategic enabler across multiple teams balancing hands-on depth with organisation-wide influence. This is a senior technical leadership role responsible for:
Guiding engineering across multiple squads and platforms
Acting as a trusted advisor on architecture and technology decisions
Driving scalable, resilient, and enterprise-aligned solutions
Bridging engineering, architecture, product, and business strategy
You will
Provide technical leadership, mentorship and coaching across multiple engineering squads, helping engineers and technical leads grow their technical capability
Lead architecture and evolution of loyalty platforms, including membership, rewards, benefits, and partner ecosystems
Design scalable solutions supporting high-volume customer interactions and transactions
Drive modernisation toward API-first, event-driven loyalty architectures
Experience
Experience designing and delivering large-scale, distributed and highly available systems in complex enterprise environments
Demonstrated expertise in Azure cloud services and best practices across architecture, security, governance, and operations
Strong understanding of software architecture, integration patterns, APIs, event-driven systems and cloud-native design principles
A minimum of 10 years' experience in software engineering, solution design or technical leadership role
Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership across multiple teams, products or technology domains
Deep expertise in Azure cloud technologies, including cloud architecture, security, networking, observability and platform services
Strong hands-on experience with Java, Kotlin and .NET technology stacks and modern application development practices
Experience evaluating technology vendors, platforms and commercial solutions
Proven ability to mentor engineers and technical leads, fostering engineering capability and technical excellence
Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence technical decisions across multiple levels of the organisation
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Tertiary qualifications in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or a related discipline.
