Are you interested in joining the dream team at Wesfarmers OneDigital?
Good call. We’re an exciting new digital enterprise with big ideas, supporting some of Australia’s most trusted and iconic brands focussed on making lives better for people all around Australia. We’re well on our way towards bringing the best of digital and data possibilities together to create more personalised shopping experiences for customers across our retail brands.
We’re continuing to bring the best talent and skills under one roof, working together and across disciplines to build amazing experiences for our customers. We continuously feed off each other’s insights, talents and capabilities, because we are a business that thrives on open collaboration and a shared vision of positive, fun and rewarding experiences.
The Engineering function houses the capabilities and roles necessary to develop the Digital ecosystem platform which includes front-end, back-end, cloud and platform capabilities embedded throughout. The specific skillsets will vary based on the technology and the tech being used, as well as how it aligns to the cross-functional teams. Engineering is responsible for establishing engineering practices within the Digital Ecosystem.
What you’ll be doing
he Principal Engineer – Backend & Core Systems Integration will be leading a cross-functional workstream in engineering practices, and providing technical leadership in key functional areas – backend and core systems integration – ensuring the OnePass product platforms developed are secure, accessible, easy to use, scalable, cost efficient and aligned to the Digital Ecosystem vision and customer value proposition.
Key duties and deliverables:
- Applying your functional expertise to test the viability of the strategy, policies and processes and to provide insights to inform and determine key decisions, along with the rest of the team and the Head of Engineering on the development of the platform
- Motivates others through articulating a compelling vision and strategy, helps teams understand how their contributions make a positive difference and support customer missions
- Eliminate blockers both internal and external to the team to help meet their goals
- Be responsible for the team’s wellbeing and engagement including career sponsorship
- Driving best practices in backend and core systems integration engineering, ensuring consistency, performance, and maintainability across our product portfolio.
- Spearheading the implementation of cost effective, secure and scalable SaaS core system integration patterns and solutions.
- Optimizing our backend engineering processes to maximize efficiency and velocity.
- Identifying and advocating for new technologies, libraries, and tools that can enhance our product engineering capabilities.
- Scaling your technical expertise by training, mentoring, and uplifting the skills of more junior engineers.
- Balancing team workloads and delivery expectations to enable predictable, sustainable product development.
- Championing a culture of quality, innovation, and continuous improvement within the engineering organization.
What you'll bring to the table
- Experience having led, mentored or developed a team of software engineers
- Proven experience with designing and building consumer facing and/or enterprise platforms at scale
- Experience with complex event driven architectures
- Solid exposure to CICD and AWS ecosystems
- Active listening skills and empathy towards team members
- Ability to effectively communicate concerns when things don’t feel “right”
- Aptness to work with change and uncertainty addressing team’s concerns as needed
- Demonstrated success working with agile and Lean methodologies
Why OneDigital?
Working in a community of industry-leading innovators with a diverse and deep set of skills and experience, you will learn, collaborate, and co-create to achieve great things.
- You’ll have ownership of your role, which will allow you to find the right balance between stretch and sustainability, work, and life.
- Culture of comradery and collaboration - OneTeam
- Plus, all the tools and learning you need, the tone is set for you to shine and succeed.
- We know that diversity fosters greater innovation and better customer connection, so we strive to create a team where everyone feels like they belong. We support diversity, inclusion and we are a gender-neutral organisation. We celebrate individuals at their core, so they shine to their best.
Team Benefits – just to name a few!
To support you at work, what you value in life and in the community, our team member benefits include:
- Access to the latest technologies
- An annual budget for your learning and development (this includes learning of your choice, certifications and more)
- Extended parental leave (16 weeks for primary carers), and paid volunteer days
- Flexible working – we balance working together with working flexibly
- People-focussed culture that celebrates achievements big and small
- Oh, and did I mention OnePass subscription and discount cards.
Next steps
If this sounds like your next career move, then click on the ‘Apply’ button now! Please note that we may commence interviewing candidates prior to the application closing date.