Executive Manager - Retail Data Engineering

<div class="content-intro"><h3><strong>Who is Quantium?</strong></h3> <p>Quantium is a world leader in data science and artificial intelligence. Established in Australia in 2002, Quantium is a global team of more than 1,200 people across 14 locations with a unique blend of capabilities across product and consulting services to help businesses unlock value from data and analytics. Quantium partners with the world's largest corporations to forge a better, more intelligent world.</p></div><p><strong data-end="30" data-start="0">Quantium’s Retail business</strong> uses advanced analytics and AI to help retailers understand customer behaviour, optimise operations, and unlock sales growth through smarter decision-making.</p> <p data-end="451" data-start="190">Behind every insight is production-grade data infrastructure. As the Executive Manager for Retail Data Engineering, you will lead the teams responsible for building and evolving the pipelines and platforms that power retail analytics and AI in real-world environments.</p> <p data-end="858" data-start="453">This is a leadership role anchored in real engineering impact. You will not be removed from the technical context, but your primary focus will be building strong teams, setting direction, and ensuring delivery outcomes align with Retail’s commercial priorities. It suits someone who enjoys guiding engineers, shaping systems at a strategic level, and operating where data, AI and business needs intersect.</p> <h3 data-end="897" data-start="865"><strong>How will you make an impact?</strong></h3> <ul> <li data-end="1100" data-start="899"><strong data-end="946" data-start="899">Lead high-performing data engineering teams</strong><br>Lead distributed data engineering squads, coaching engineering leads and creating an environment of accountability, clarity and continuous improvement.</li> <li data-end="1301" data-start="1102"><strong data-end="1144" data-start="1102">Build resilient, scalable data systems</strong><br>Oversee the design and evolution of data pipelines and production data platforms that support advanced analytics and AI solutions used by major retailers.</li> <li data-end="1503" data-start="1303"><strong data-end="1345" data-start="1303">Align engineering to business outcomes</strong><br>Translate commercial objectives into clear engineering priorities, ensuring the team’s work drives measurable improvements in efficiency, speed and impact.</li> <li data-end="1676" data-start="1505"><strong data-end="1535" data-start="1505">Lift engineering standards</strong><br>Strengthen planning, execution and operational discipline across squads. Bring structure where needed, without adding unnecessary process.</li> <li data-end="1857" data-start="1678"><strong data-end="1714" data-start="1678">Drive cross-functional execution</strong><br>Partner closely with AI, platform and application engineering leaders to ensure solutions are cohesive end-to-end, not fragmented by domain.</li> <li data-end="2047" data-start="1859"><strong data-end="1899" data-start="1859">Act as the accountable domain leader</strong><br>Be the recognised point of leadership for data engineering within Retail, proactively managing risks, delivery health and stakeholder confidence.</li> </ul> <h3 data-end="2100" data-start="2054"><strong>The superpowers you will bring to the team</strong></h3> <ul> <li data-end="2314" data-start="2102"><strong data-end="2158" data-start="2102">Experience leading production data engineering teams</strong><br>You’ve led teams building and operating business-critical data systems, with strong instincts around reliability, scalability and operational discipline.</li> <li data-end="2490" data-start="2316"><strong data-end="2363" data-start="2316">Ability to coach and grow engineering leads</strong><br>You strengthen the layer beneath you. You’ve supported leads in developing leadership capability, not just technical output.</li> <li data-end="2710" data-start="2492"><strong data-end="2541" data-start="2492">Solid grasp of modern cloud data architecture</strong><br>You can engage meaningfully on ingestion, transformation, orchestration and storage decisions, and understand trade-offs across cost, performance and maintainability.</li> <li data-end="2867" data-start="2712"><strong data-end="2761" data-start="2712">Commercial judgment alongside technical depth</strong><br>You balance quality, speed and efficiency, and can align engineering priorities with business outcomes.</li> <li data-end="2984" data-start="2869"><strong data-end="2903" data-start="2869">Comfort operating in ambiguity</strong><br>You create clarity, focus and momentum when scope evolves or priorities shift.</li> <li data-end="3124" data-start="2986"><strong data-end="3017" data-start="2986">Strong stakeholder presence</strong><br>You communicate trade-offs clearly, manage expectations well, and represent your domain with confidence.</li> <li data-end="3313" data-is-last-node="" data-is-only-node="" data-start="3126"><strong data-end="3164" data-start="3126">Curiosity about AI-enabled systems</strong><br>You’ve worked in or alongside AI and advanced analytics environments, and are comfortable supporting AI use cases through robust data foundations.</li> </ul> <p>By joining the Quantium team, you’ll get to:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Forge your path:</strong> So many of our team have moved around different teams or offices. You’ll be in the driver’s seat, and we empower you to make your career your own.</li> <li><strong>Find your kind:</strong> Embrace diversity and connect with your tribe (think foodies, dog lovers, readers, or runners).</li> <li><strong>Make an impact:</strong> Leave your mark. Your contributions resonate, regardless of your role or rank.</li> </ul> <h3>But wait, there’s more!</h3> <p>We’ve got some pretty sweet perks:&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li><strong>Flexible work arrangements</strong>: Achieve work life balance at your own pace with hybrid and flexible work arrangements.</li> <li><strong>Continuous learning</strong>: Our vision is empowering analytics talent to thrive. The Analytics Community fosters the development of individuals, thought leadership and technical excellence at Quantium through building strong connections, fostering collaboration, and co-creation of best practice.</li> <li><strong>Remote working</strong>: Embrace the opportunity to work outside of your assigned home location for up to 2 months every year.</li> </ul> <h3>Apply now and let's forge a better, more intelligent world together!</h3><div class="content-conclusion"><p><em>Quantium’s recruitment process involves the collection and use of personal information, see our&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="https://quantium.com/candidate-privacy-collection-notice/">Candidate Data Collection Notice</a> for more information. T</span>his provides information on how we collect, use &amp; store your personal information, including potential disclosure to our majority shareholder, Woolworths Group Limited.</em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p></div>