The Commercial Products team manages a fleet of custom-built systems and third party product integrations  that perform critical functions for our Sales Operations, Traffic, Finance, Programming and Presentation teams, which make it possible for us to sell and traffic ads into our linear broadcasts schedules. In other words, our systems are core business critical systems that manage all revenue associated with broadcast.

You’ll be leading an organisation made up of 4 squads, each with its own engineering manager, software engineers, quality engineers, and iteration manager. The immediate focus of the role will be on the continued improvement and scalability/reliability of existing systems, longer term you’ll contribute to building the next-gen of Nine’s sales, advertising management, and revenue systems. 

At Nine Technology we strive for People and Engineering excellence and culture in the way we deliver on our work. As a senior technology leader you’ll have the opportunity to not only lead your teams in the way they effectively operate and deliver but you’ll be a leader helping Nine to continuously evolve and grow its Product and Engineering culture and capabilities. 

Role responsibilities

• Ensure scope and architectural directions are clear for products and ensure smooth roll-out and integration of projects
• Lead a technical team, working to guide and grow technically strong individuals, being able to give them acute feedback to help them in their technical challenges, whilst still giving them freedom to innovate their own ideas
• Work with engineering leadership to identify opportunities to improve practices and processes around engineering and delivery, and assist with the implementation and upkeep of these practices
• Work closely with Product Management on continuous improvements to existing systems, with a focus on improved reliability, performance, and efficiency.
• Lead development and maintain a strategy to deliver on business goals via system improvements, new functionality and platforms.
• Being involved and helping to coach and mentor teams delivering in Agile
• Ability to plan, organise and lead teams to deliver consistently on project and release commitments.
• Manage 3rd party partners, commercials, contracts and budgets. Ensure contract commitments are met.
• Ability to manage key senior business stakeholder relationships to ensure a  successful technology partnership
• Support development of business cases to further business improvements
• Responsible for developing technology investments business cases. 
• Work with engineering leadership to identify opportunities to improve practices and processes around engineering and delivery, and assist with the implementation and upkeep of these practices
• Help develop and maintain a strategy to deliver on business goals via system improvements and new functionality
• Support production systems - we believe in 'you build it, you support it'.
• Manage overall team and vendor budgets to target.

Australia's leading broadcast video-on-demand platform, 9Now, offers a destination for consumers around Australia to catch up on their favourite programs and watch live TV  anywhere, anytime, on their chosen device.

We’re looking for a highly-skilled technical leader with proven people and development team management experience to lead a team of engineers focused on delivering an amazing experience on Connected TVs.

You will have a passion for managing people and a background in building high-quality front-end applications. You will be able to organise and motivate teams to consistently deliver on significant roadmaps of enhancements and lead a team of high-performing Engineers.

You are adept at explaining and articulating complex technical concepts with your peers and business stakeholders. You will manage multiple relationships, including product managers, senior tech leadership and external vendors.
 

Day to day you will:

• Lead, manage and mentor a small team of frontend software engineers
• Work with stakeholders to provide technical solutions to problems or issues
• Act as an enabler, removing roadblocks and single points of sensitivities for your team and stakeholders by cross-skilling your team when possible 
• Maintain high-quality standards for yourself and software engineering practices of your team
• Work with team members to guide solutions towards business and technology goals
• Drive the continuous improvement of processes and ways of work to improve team capacity, capability and adoption of best practices and best-in-class technology
• Provide one-on-one feedback, career advice and coaching for your team members
• Communicate openly and be the voice of the business within your team, keeping them informed of and working towards the business vision & goals

In your role as Engineering Manager, you’ll be responsible for the engineering and people management within one of our high performing mobile application squads inside Nine Product & Technology. You’ll play a vital role in helping your team grow their skills professionally while delivering the product roadmap for a best-in-class news experience for millions of Australians.

Enabling your team

• Work with stakeholders to provide technical solutions to problems or issues
• Act as a enabler, removing roadblocks to progress as needed
• Maintain high quality standards for yourself and software engineering practices of your team
• Work with team members to guide solutions towards business and technology goals
• Drive the continuous improvement of processes and ways of work to improve team capacity and capability

Technical Leadership

• Drive adoption of best practice and ensuring engineering decisions align with the project and product engineering strategy

• Remove single points of failure by cross-skilling staff

Drive high performance

• Establish and maintain a highly motivated and high performance team culture through one on one feedback, mentoring, coaching and performance management
• Communicate openly and be the voice of the business within your team, keeping them informed of and working towards the business vision & goals
• Effectively lead people processes including the hiring of new talent