Domain Lead - Business Applications Engineering

Ko wai mātou – About us 

Kia ora.  We’re Foodies.  You know New World, PAK’nSAVE and Four Square right? That’s us!

With 300+ stores and over 27,000 Foodies across Te Ika-a-Maui, our North Island Co-op has the privilege of helping New Zealanders get more out of life.  Locally owned, we reflect the communities we serve, and we celebrate our people - our taonga, every day for being uniquely them. 

Our Support Centre is 1,500+ people strong, which includes 500+ IT employees, who all play a vital role in ensuring the cogs of our Co-op stay turning and our systems stay ‘byte’-sized and ‘bug’-free.”. 

Te Tūranga – About the role 

We’re looking for an experienced Domain Lead - Business Applications Engineering to lead the engineering strategy and capability behind some of our most important enterprise platforms.

Spanning SAP, Salesforce, ServiceNow and future business platforms, this is a senior leadership opportunity to define how we engineer, extend, integrate and evolve our business applications at scale.

You’ll lead through Principal Engineers, Tech Leads and Chapter Leads, creating the standards, capability and environment that allow engineering teams to move faster while maintaining quality, security, resilience and long-term platform health.

What you’ll do

• Own and evolve the engineering strategy for business applications, aligning engineering direction with business, platform, architecture, security, data and integration strategies.
• Set engineering standards and guardrails across SAP, Salesforce, ServiceNow and other enterprise platforms, creating consistency without unnecessarily slowing teams down.
• Champion modern engineering practices, including clean core, upgrade-safe extensibility, platform-native development, API and event-driven integration, automation, CI/CD, automated testing and observability.
• Lead through senior technical leaders, empowering Principal Engineers, Tech Leads and Chapter Leads to shape the detail while providing clear direction and accountability.
• Build engineering capability at scale, strengthening technical leadership, career pathways, succession and expertise across multiple engineering disciplines.
• Balance engineering excellence with business value, ensuring solutions remain secure, maintainable, upgradeable and commercially sustainable.
• Influence platform investment and technical direction, ensuring engineering decisions reduce unnecessary customisation, complexity, duplication and vendor dependency.

Ngā painga - What we offer 

We’re committed to providing awesome experiences for our people, including offering a range of benefits

• Inhouse learning and development programmes and courses, flu vaccinations, and social network groups (we call them Tribes).
• Flexible working options, a day off on your birthday, long service leave
• Free carparking - we’ve got over 1,000 carparks including EV plugs
• Onsite café with subsidised meals, mini mart, 5% discount at our retail stores

He kōrero mōu - About you 

• Significant senior leadership experience across enterprise-scale software engineering, particularly within SaaS, packaged or business-critical platform environments.
• Strong experience across enterprise platforms such as SAP, Salesforce and ServiceNow, with credible understanding of their engineering models, integration and extension approaches.
• Proven experience leading through other engineering leaders, such as Principal Engineers, Tech Leads and Chapter Leads, rather than relying on direct delivery control.
• A strong track record of setting engineering standards, patterns and guardrails that improve consistency, quality and security while preserving team autonomy.
• Strong knowledge of modern engineering practices across integration, automation, DevOps, CI/CD, quality engineering, observability and production support.
• Strong ability to operate across both strategy and technical detail, harnessing the expertise of engineers, architects and platform specialists rather than needing to personally own every technical decision.
• Experience balancing business value, engineering quality, operational sustainability, security, risk and commercial considerations when making technology decisions.
• Strong stakeholder leadership, with the ability to influence confidently across engineering, architecture, product, security, business leadership and executive audiences.
• A collaborative, pragmatic leadership style with the ability to create clarity, empower autonomy and build high-performing engineering leadership teams.

Experience awesome. Achieve awesome. Be awesomely you.

We’re proud to have a focus on Diversity & Inclusion here at Foodies and welcome courageous behaviour, encourage togetherness, inspire our people to be their best selves in our Foodies whānau.

We encourage you to apply with all your awesomeness and welcome your diverse background, including any disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or neurodiversity.

If you require accessibility support to ensure you can fairly access our recruitment process, please reach out to  [email protected].  Accessibility support could include, interview location, sign language interpreter, assistive technology.

Don’t ‘cart’ around – apply now!

Are you ready to be part of our bunch – apply now!