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 YOU AND YOUR SKILLS:

To be successful, you will have the following experience and attributes:

• Extensive commercial experience in engineering leadership roles across quality, integration or platform engineering.
• Deep experience embedding QA, test automation, performance and reliability practices at scale.
• Proven success managing NPE environments and complex integration landscapes in hybrid/cloud environments.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence across delivery domains and platforms.
• Experience in defining engineering standards and embedding practices across Agile delivery teams.
• Strong track record improving software quality, system reliability and delivery efficiency.
• Experience in managing technical risks, production readiness and quality gates in enterprise releases.
• Demonstrated innovative mindset and continuously incorporating emerging technologies and improvement in engineering outcomes (e.g. AI / ML, automation)
• Deep understanding of quality engineering, DevOps, SRE and CI/CD principles.
• Familiarity with tooling such as Selenium, JMeter, Postman, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Dynatrace, Splunk, etc.
• Strong grasp of integration architectures, including APIs, microservices, middleware and data pipelines.
• Ability to lead through influence, coach technical teams, and build cross-domain alignment.
• Strategic mindset with a hands-on approach to problem-solving and engineering excellence.
• Relevant qualifications in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field.
• Certifications in Agile, ISTQB, cloud platforms (e.g. Azure, AWS) or architecture frameworks desirable.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As the Head of Enterprise Engineering Services, your role is to define and govern enterprise-wide quality engineering strategy, standards, roadmaps, tooling and automation frameworks. You will embed quality assurance and continuous testing practices across the SDLC and CI/CD pipelines and build capability across squads and domains to adopt quality-first engineering mindsets.
Furthermore, you will oversee provisioning, management and optimisation of test, staging and pre-production environments.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE

• Ensure consistent, scalable test strategies for functional, regression, performance and security testing.
• Promote shift-left testing, enabling earlier defect detection and faster delivery cycles.
• Drive continuous innovation in quality engineering platforms and standards.
• Develop reusable, AI-enabled quality engineering assets across the SDLC (incl. test strategy, test and defect management, test design, test data fabrication, test execution etc)
• Provide tooling and accelerators to streamline environment management, improve quality assurance and environment availability
• Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams to maintain scalable NPE services and drive ongoing cost and usage efficiency, as well as the data, architecture and application owners to support end-to-end workflows.