Woolworths

• Permanent role
• Norwest office location with hybrid working (3 days a week in office)
• Work on high impact data architecture projects

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 Group Enablement

Our Group Enablement Teams are the Technology, Business Enablement, Value Chain and Replenishment experts developing new capabilities and platforms for a better retail future. We’re the crucial link between our stores and the stock they need, the IT engine moving our business forward, the strategic connectors streamlining the way we work, and the forward thinkers using tech to transform the retail experience. Uniting cutting edge technology, data and retail smarts, you’ll work behind the scenes, in the margins and across every corner of the business – to uplift our capability, amplify our collective impacts and revolutionise the customer experience. 

What you’ll do

As a key member of the Data Architecture team, responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Develop solutions, data architectures & designs for Inbound & outbound Data Integration, Data Lake, Business Intelligence, Reporting and analytics solutions
• Develop conceptual, logical and physical data models across structured, semi-structured and unstructured datasets using standard data modelling techniques.
• Make design decisions that ensure effective, secure, scalable, convergent, flexible and manageable solutions of high standards
• Applying data analysis and data modelling techniques, based upon a detailed understanding of the group information requirements, to establish, modify or maintain data structures and their associated components (entity descriptions, relationship descriptions, attribute definitions). Providing advice and guidance to data engineers/ designers and others using the data structures and associated components.    
• Work with the business, to model the information required to support the organisation or project ambition, and devise data structures and architectures to support these. Communicate the resultant models and architectures to management. 
• Ensuring compliance with organisational policies and procedures and overall data/ information management and analytics strategy.  
• Stakeholder management, ability to collaborate

What you’ll bring

We are looking for an experienced Data Architect with proven stakeholder management skills; with the ability to build, maintain and utilise networks and relationships within Woolworths Group Limited and across external stakeholders (i.e. industry, government, other supplier bodies) and an ability to effectively communicate with stakeholders to achieve effective architecture outcomes and to produce effective strategies and solutions.

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science/Mathematics/Engineering
• Strong experience in designing BI & Reporting solutions & technologies
• Strong experience in microservices and integration architectures.
• Strong Architecture experience in designing solutions leveraging PaaS and SaaS cloud capabilities (GCP/Azure/AWS)
• Designing and implementing highly available and scalable solutions in an on-prem, hybrid & multi-cloud environment
• Data modelling using Data Vault 2.0 and other data warehouse modelling tools like Kimball
• Experience using ERWIN/any other modelling tools.
• Exposure to Data Engineering, CI/CD process & design
• Understand established data management principles & technologies
• Experience in Agile / Scrum methods and approaches
• Strong stakeholder management and engagement skills
• Excellent business writing and verbal communication skills to establish and develop effective client relationships
• Works well with Enterprise Architecture, Design and Analysis, Service Delivery and Project teams
• Shows resilience, pursuing challenging situations with drive so as to achieve specific goals

What you’ll experience:

Our Team Members are at the heart of everything we do and we’re always looking for ways to support your career journey and reward great work:

• 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 global business with endless career possibilities around every corner and across every discipline – with valuable exposure to a vast and exciting business network.
• High impact role supporting our teams who enrich our communities. 
• 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

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, customers, and 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 selves, 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.