Job Description

We’ve been proudly serving Australian communities since 1914 and have grown to become a top 30-listed company on the ASX with a portfolio of iconic homegrown brands. At the heart of our continued success is over 115,000 team members working across the country, all contributing to bringing our customers smiles. You’ll not only get to see your work make a difference, you’ll be part of a team working together to help Australians eat and live better every day.

About the team

Coles 360 is all about connections. It’s how we connect with customers at every turn of their lives. It’s how we use the power of Coles’ shopper data to maximise that connection. It’s how we partner at levels to drive more meaningful campaigns and measure the impact they create. Coles 360 combines the power of customer connections, media connections and partner connections to offer brands a one-stop media solution.

About the role

Join Coles 360’s growing data and engineering environment and help shape the data foundations underpinning one of Australia’s leading retail media and customer ecosystems.

This is a rare opportunity to join a highly capable and collaborative team operating with genuine autonomy, trust and technical ownership. Working closely with Coles 360 and cross-functional stakeholders, you’ll solve complex data challenges and build scalable data solutions supporting audience activation, measurement and customer outcomes.

This role sits at the intersection of analytics engineering, platform operations and customer measurement systems.

Applications close on March 29.

What you’ll do

You’ll inherit and evolve a production-grade Snowflake and Azure-based environment, supporting the migration of analytics, engineering and marketing workloads into the Coles data ecosystem. This role will see you maintain, optimise and simplify existing pipelines and data models while contributing to best-practice engineering across the platform.

You will also:

• Support migration of Python and SQL workflows into Snowflake
• Manage and enhance DBT models, scheduled pipelines and data workflows
• Support and improve CI/CD, containerisation and deployment workflows across the platform ecosystem
• Collaborate across multiple stakeholders and systems to solve data challenges
• Help shape practical technical direction through sound engineering judgment
• Work across retail transaction, marketing campaign and customer data
• Contribute to scalable and maintainable engineering practices.

About you and your skills

You’re an experienced Analytics Engineer, Data Engineer or technically-minded Analyst who enjoys working in a high-trust, self-directed environment. You’ve likely spent several years working across modern cloud-based data platforms and are comfortable navigating ambiguity, solving complex problems and collaborating across multiple stakeholders and systems.

Experience with DBT is highly regarded, though candidates with strong experience with modern or custom data transformation frameworks are encouraged to apply. You’ll bring exposure to platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks or BigQuery, along with strong SQL and Python capability. Most importantly, you’re curious, collaborative and capable of building scalable solutions that are practical, maintainable and easy for others to support.

You will also have:

• Experience working with modern data pipelines and workflow orchestration
• Exposure to data modelling and scalable data solutions
• Strong systems thinking across interconnected platforms and workflows
• Excellent stakeholder collaboration and communication skills
• Exposure to retail, loyalty, transaction or marketing campaign data highly regarded.

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What’s in it for you?

• Flexible working options: We know that work is only one part of your life, so we actively encourage a positive work-life balance and provide hybrid working options to help you achieve it.
• Office perks: Take advantage of our gym facility and fitness classes, free parking, BBQ area, mini-Coles supermarket, fooderie hub where you can sample new products before they hit the shelves, school holiday program and so much more when you come in.
• Discounts: Eligible team members receive 5% discount all year round on your Supermarket and Liquor online and in-store purchases. We also offer additional periods of double discount (10%) at various times throughout the year. As well as hotdeals exclusive to team members that translate into additional savings.
• Reward through recognition: Give and receive recognition, linked to our Coles values, through our digital recognition platform ‘mythanks’. You can accumulate points to redeem in the online shop for exciting gifts and electronic gift cards from an extensive range of retailers.
• Opportunities for learning and development: No matter where you start within our diverse business, you’ll have experiences, exposure, and education to satisfy you. Discover and explore a variety of career development programs and job-specific training.
• Paid parental leave: We understand how important your life outside work is and offer permanent team members paid parental leave to support you in balancing work and family.
• Investment in your future: Our annual team member share plan offer allows eligible team members to make regular pre-tax salary sacrifice deductions to purchase Coles Group shares.

About the recruitment process

We’re continuing to build a gender equitable team, and a culture that is just as diverse, inclusive and welcoming as the communities we serve. We are committed to creating a workplace that is safe and respectful for our team. We encourage applications from people of all ages, cultures (including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples), abilities, sexual orientation and gender identities.

We’re happy to adjust our recruitment process to support candidates with disability. For further information and additional contact details visit the ‘Our Recruitment Process’ section of our careers site or email inclusionrecruitment@coles.com.au

Job ID: 185861

Employment Type: Full time