Environment & Release LeadHybrid

Super Retail Group; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discounts across SRG brands

Perks Programme including Health &Well

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Super Retail Group is building a brand-new enterprise capability and seeks an Environment & Release Lead to shape it from the ground up. You will lead enterprise-wide environment management, release enablement across platforms, and governance to support delivery at pace.

Reporting to the Head of Enterprise Testing Environment & Release, you’ll orchestrate cross-domain delivery, manage dependencies, and provide executive-level assurance on quality and release risk.

Qualifications

• You are a passionate technologist with a focus on continuous improvement and AI-enabled daily work.
• You can influence and communicate context to drive positive change.
• You are a collaborative leader with a progressive mindset and a willingness to design modern release practices.

Responsibilities

• Define and govern test environments strategy and lifecycle across multiple delivery portfolios.
• Design and implement a release governance framework and provide integrated release visibility.
• Identify opportunities for test environment health checks and cost savings; partner with automation.
• Drive on-demand automated test environments, data provisioning, and CI/CD integration.
• Define and report environment and release metrics to uplift federated capabilities.

Skills

Passionate technologist

Collaborative leader

Brave

Continuous improvement

AI in daily work

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Job description

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.

About the Role

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.

About you

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 be 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!

About us

• You’ll get to join for an organisation with a culture that is driven by innovation and creating awesome experiences for our customers and teams, and will get to work alongside a diverse team across Super Retail Group that is representative of the communities we work in.
• Super Retail Group is a Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Employer of Choice for Gender Equality citation holder.
• We are committed to your professional development and will support on-going opportunities for both learning and progression.
• You will get access to generous discounts across all Super Retail Group brands, as well as access to our Perks Programme, including discounts on Health and Wellbeing, Entertainment, Travel and Accommodation and more.

Our Culture of Inclusion

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.