Endeavour Group Hiring for General Manager – Architecture & Governance at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Full Time

Endeavour Group was created in 2020 through the restructure and merger of the Woolworths Group drinks and hospitality businesses. With a strong track record of growth, combined these businesses form the leading customer franchise in drinks and hospitality in Australia.

United behind a common purpose of ‘Creating a more sociable future together’, we are a 28,000+ strong team with more than 1600 stores and 330 hotels nationally, including leading brands such as Dan Murphy’s, BWS and ALH Hotels.

Endeavour Group has separated from Woolworths during calendar year 2021 and is well-positioned as an ASX Top 50 Company. Join the team at an exciting time in their evolution

About The Opportunity

This role has end to end responsibility for the architecture and commercial functions within Endeavour Technology. In partnership with the Transformation Director this role will define the governance framework for Endeavour’s technology transformation and has sole responsibility for defining governance for programs and projects outside of transformation.

Endeavour is embarking on a large-scale end to end technology transformation and this leader will play a key role in successfully delivering that transformation and step changing Endeavour’s technology capabilities.

A day in the life of a General Manager – Architecture & Governance

Strategy

• Develop a strong understanding of the Endeavour strategies
• Partner with Endeavour Technology Domain Leads to develop 5+ year technology roadmaps that establish a fit for purpose Endeavour-wide technology landscape that enables business strategy, is fit for purpose, meets functional and non-functional requirements and ensures risk management (secure and stable) and effective application lifecycle management
• Contribute to the development of the Endeavour Technology strategy and technology investment and policy decisions.

Architecture

• Develop and own Enterprise Architecture for Endeavour including consideration of data, integration, security, infrastructure, minimisation of technology debt and includes transition states throughout the technology transformation
• Ensure benchmarking and external expertise and assurance in the development of Enterprise Architecture and manage scope and deliverables across relevant partners
• Manage the implementation of a pragmatic Architecture Governance Framework
• Ensure technology decisions at Endeavour are aligned to the target state architecture and progressively simplify and modernise Endeavour’s technology landscape and reduce the total cost of ownership
• Analyse the current business and technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement
• Develop and lead a Solution Architecture Practice that enables our technology domains and program and project teams and effectively supports solution option selection
• Lead and facilitate the creation of governing principles to guide solution decision making for the enterprise.
• Through this work support the development of 5+ year technology roadmaps for each of Endeavour’s technology domains

Governance & Policy

• In partnership with the Transformation Director this role will define the governance framework for Endeavour’s technology transformation
• Sole responsibility for defining governance for programs and projects outside of transformation
• Ensure these frameworks are development in collaboration with the technology leadership team, effectively communicated and supported by appropriate tools
• Support Domain leads to ensure program and project delivery is aligned to our governance approach and program and projects are audit ready and have appropriate external assurance
• Develop and lead a Technology Project Management Practice that enables our technology domains and effectively supports program and project delivery
• Lead and facilitate the development of the Endeavour technology policy framework and policies

Commercial

• Lead the commercial function for Endeavour Technology ensuring Endeavour’s technology contracts meet commercial, technology and business and legal objectives
• In partnership with legal, procurement and finance teams to ensure appropriate management and governance of contracts, purchase to pay and renewal decisions
• Planning, budgeting and forecasting for the functional areas
• Improve the efficiency of the functional area over time and support management of the total cost of ownership of Endeavour technology

Risk management

• Partner with the technology leadership team to identify, assess, categorise and mitigate technology risk
• Ensure architecture, commercial and governance risks are appropriately captured in the Endeavour risk management framework

Technology operations

• Partner with Infrastructure and Services to understand challenges in the current technology landscape and support addressing these through both short-term and long-term plans

Thought leadership and innovation

• Provide technology thought leadership and appropriate industry-leading practices
• Enable innovation and POC’s to define target state architecture, governance frameworks and

Leadership and ways of working

• Lead and inspire the Architecture and Governance team by role modelling the Endeavour Values and Ways of Working
• Recruit, engage, manage and retain the highest quality talent, enabled through diversity of thought and experiences
• Actively support the development, engagement and growth of technology talent across Endeavour and our roadmap to become a technology employer of choice
• Actively and proactively collaborate across technology and with business partners
• Actively assist in increasing technology literacy within the business

What You’ll Need To Succeed

• Bachelor’s degree in technology or a related field
• Technology experience (10+ years) across a broad range of disciplines
• Excellent knowledge of Technology Architecture principles and practices and evidence of maintaining up to date knowledge of technology rest practices and trends including cloud, automated testing, test driven development, CI/CD and secure coding
• Demonstrated success in defining and delivering target state Enterprise Architecture, preferably in the context of large scale technology transformation with complex interim states
• Experience developing and operating governance frameworks for large scale programs and as part of broad technology transformations including a strong understanding of a range of delivery approaches
• Experience in leading technology commercial functions to achieve differentiated outcomes
• Experience identifying and managing technology risk – including managing and responding audits and an understanding of key risk themes such as cyber, data management, privacy and disaster recovery
• Strong financial literacy including experience developing business cases, demonstrated effective cost management and effective prioritisation
• Strong communication, collaboration and presentation skills
• Strong track record of partnering with senior leaders to deliver differentiated outcomes
• Demonstrated strength in leading and developing large scale technology teams

The following would also be highly desirable

• Experience in large scale retail or hospitality businesses
• Experience working in matrixed and/or agile organisations

What’s in it for you?

• Excellent remuneration package and flexible working in every sense. We value our people
• Everyday Rewards plus card – access exclusive employee discounts across Woolworths, BigW and Endeavour Group brands (BWS, Dan Murphy’s etc) and 50% off food at ALH venues.
• Our innovative ways of working include headspace mornings once a month (no meetings company-wide)
• Opportunity to partner alongside bright minds and genuine investment in leading technologies
• Career progression to help you realise your potential. As our business grows so do the opportunities for our people
• Work with an industry-leading team and be a part of one of the most exciting retail transformations in Australia

Grow with Endeavour Group

Bring your spark. Tap into our spirit. That’s the power of Endeavour.

If you want to experience the diverse spirit of drinks and hospitality businesses, here you can tap into Australia’s leading brands including Dan Murphy’s, BWS, ALH, Pinnacle Drinks, Endeavour X and more.

If you have a passion for connecting people with products they love, here you can join an industry that’s deeply embedded in the way Australians socialise, unwind and celebrate.

If you want access to a breadth of career opportunities, here you can enjoy a path that travels between diverse roles and businesses within the Group.

If you’re already asking ‘what’s next for me’ and our industry, here you’ll thrive.

If you want to bring your full self to doing fulfilling work, here you’ll find a culture that’s welcoming, inclusive and responsible.

If you are looking for flexibility, here we encourage our team members to work in ways that meets their work / life commitments and supports their wellbeing.

Come grow with Endeavour where we are passionate about our purpose of creating a more sociable future together, and leaving a positive imprint on our team members and the communities we serve.

If you meet a number of the requirements, but not all, we encourage you to submit your application.

You can learn more about working with us on LinkedIn or via www.wowcareers.com.au/endeavour/ #EGL #EDG

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