Environment & Release Lead in Sydney

Super Retail Group is the proud owner of four iconic brands: Supercheap Auto, rebel, BCF and Macpac, and is one of Australia and New Zealand's largest retailers. The talent of our teams and their passion for providing an experience which inspires and enhances our customers’ leisure time drives our culture of innovation and opportunity.

At Super Retail Group, our purpose is to inspire and equip everyone to live their passion every day. We're building a brand-new enterprise capability and are looking for an Environment & Release Lead to help shape it from the ground up. As a key member of the Enterprise Testing, Environments & Release Enablement leadership team, you'll lead the creation of an enterprise-wide environment management and release enablement function that supports all platforms groupwide, all of which are at varying levels of maturity.

Reporting to the Head of Enterprise Testing Environment & Release, you'll drive the coordination of test environments, test data, and release activities across multiple domains, working with platform teams to enable delivery at pace. This is a highly influential role where you'll establish standards, processes, tooling, and governance while orchestrating cross-domain delivery, resolving complex dependencies, and implementing an effective federated release train model.

Partnering closely with technology and business stakeholders, you'll provide executive-level assurance on quality, readiness, and release risk, helping enable successful delivery of strategic transformation initiatives across SRG.

Your key responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Test Environment Strategy, Governance & Lifecycle Management: Define program test environment strategies, governance, co-ordinate test data refreshes, manage centralised environment booking and contention management across delivery portfolios.
• Enterprise Release Governance & Orchestration: Design and implement release governance framework that considers release standards, readiness criteria, release communications, dependency management. Provide integrated release visibility, whilst assisting domains to uplift their release train maturity.
• Test Environment Health and Usage: Identify opportunities for test environment health checks and monitoring, working closely with Test Automation Practice Lead for automated shakedown tests. Maintain an inventory of test systems and environments, monitoring usage and potential cost savings.
• Automation of test environments and CI/CD Enablement: Drive on demand, automated test environment and test data provisioning and CI/CD pipeline integration to enable continuous testing.
• Reporting, Metrics & Value Realisation: Define, build, implement and report on Environment and Release metrics, that can identify opportunities for uplift, supporting platforms to mature in both of these federated capabilities.

Enjoy the flexibility of being based in either Brisbane (Strathpine) or Sydney (Rhodes), with a hybrid work model that combines collaboration onsite at least three days per week.

You are a passionate technologist who thrives on continuous improvement, value add process and the use of AI to assist with your daily work. You may or may not have a formal environment or release management background; however, you understand what good looks like. You are brave, challenge the status quo and understand how to influence and communicate context, that enable others to accept and champion positive change. You are a collaborative leader with a progressive mindset, embracing innovation and prepared to design a modern environment and release enablement practice that can meet the demands of our fast-paced delivery.

We know that the best candidates don't always meet every requirement on paper. If you're excited about this opportunity and can see yourself succeeding in the role, we encourage you to apply. We'd love to hear from you!

Super Retail Group is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We support, promote and celebrate diversity and we recognise the benefits a culture of inclusion brings to our workplace and customer experience.