WooliesX Hiring for Senior Solutions Architect at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Full Time

• Develop a strong understanding of managing an architecture runway in a highly agile digital technology landscape
• Secondment opportunities for the Enterprise, Principal Architect, and leadership
• Surry Hills (Sydney) based with flexible working arrangements

We are Woolworths Group
We are Woolworths Group. 200,000+ bright minds, passionate hearts and unique perspectives connected by a shared Purpose – ‘to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow.’ It’s that Purpose that fuels our ambition to explore new ideas, make brave commitments and innovate better ways to meet the food and everyday needs of more than 24 million customers every week.

If you’re excited to turn today’s blue sky thinking into a better tomorrow for future generations, you’ll find yourself supported and enriched in an dynamic, inclusive and empowering workplace that reflects the diverse communities we serve. With a culture of genuine care, a flexible approach to work and opportunities across the group to grow your career and make a meaningful impact, the possibilities for what we can achieve together are endless.

Welcome to WooliesX
As a business inside one of Australia’s largest retailers, WooliesX aims to bring the best of Woolworths Group to our customers.

We’re an innovation business that brings together the brightest minds in e-commerce, technology, media, and data to transform how people live and shop. With an industry-leading technology team backed by analytics, we’re resourceful and willing to experiment. Our agile teams are empowered to innovate and deliver an excellent experience for our customers – whether they shop in-store or online.

What You’ll Do

• Offer a high level of influence across the entire business where you understand the organisational structure and organisational direction and provide the strategic architectural direction for WooliesX.
• Help lead and define the WooliesX Architecture strategy and ways of working.
• Develop a fit-for-purpose governance framework, with relevant context to the broader Group architecture approach.
• Create a reference architecture for key systems & capability across WooliesX.
• Design, model, and provide a strategic point-of-view on the target-state architecture, including modelling and communicating transitionary states.
• Drive work prioritisation across the team and enable the successful delivery of internally generated solution designs by external service providers.

What You’ll Bring

• Experience working in a scale Agile environment and a Digital-first landscape.
• Demonstrated End-to-End Program/Business Architecture experience on large scale IT transformation programs.
• Solid experience with solution design and successful implementation of complex business solutions as well as extensive experience with enterprise and solutions architecture, business, systems requirements, technical design and analysis in a complex and legacy technical environment.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication & influencing skills and experience guiding and collaborating with multidisciplinary technical teams covering multiple domains.
• Ability to define complex and innovative technical solutions to business problems.
• Strong knowledge of cloud computing Architectures preferably Azure, GCP and understanding of modern and evolutionary architectures MACH, MESH, AI, DDD would be desirable.

What You’ll Experience

• A progressive and flexible ‘work from anywhere’ policy that gives you more control over your work, life and wellbeing
• Team discounts across our range of Woolworths Group brands you know and love and a robust rewards program that celebrates and incentivises purpose-driven work
• A range of programs to help you prioritise and manage your wellbeing, including 24/7 access to the Sonder app
• A progressive and competitive leave policy that gives you more space for what matters to you

Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group
We believe that diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. We recognise the value our team’s diversity brings to our business, our customers and our communities, and that teams with diverse experiences and backgrounds enrich our group and are better able to innovate and solve problems. As one of the largest employers in Australia and New Zealand, we aim to create a truly inclusive workplace where everyone feels that they belong, can be their best self and reach their full potential.

We encourage all candidates to apply, please let us know in your application if we can support you with any adjustments in the hiring process.

See how we’re creating better experiences together, for a better tomorrow
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Grow with the Group
As an inclusive, team-first company, our people are at the core of everything we do.

We care deeply about creating a workplace where our team members feel valued, respected and empowered. We are committed to providing equal opportunity regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or life stage. We are proud to be recognised as a Gold Tier Employer in the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTQ+ inclusion and as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.

As our Group continues to evolve, innovate and support our communities, we encourage our team members to do the same with their own careers, by providing ongoing opportunities to grow and make a real difference.

We value flexibility, and encourage our team members to work in ways that meet their work/life commitments and support their wellbeing.

We work hard to create a safe and inclusive environment for all, and most importantly, we’re all about creating better experiences – for our customers and for each other.

We’d love to hear from You
If you meet a number of the requirements, but not all, we encourage you to submit your application. You can follow us on LinkedIn or see more opportunities via www.wowcareers.com.au.