Total 35 engineering job vacancies in Information Technology category in sydney nsw cbp south 11 harbour street

Responsibilities

• Building, integrating and maintaining tools and infrastructure facilitating internal development and testing.
• Improve maintainability of build system
• Evaluate new tools
• Improve speed of information back to the development team within the build systems and processes
• Troubleshoot and resolve systems and network issues.
• Adherence to infrastructure-as-code principles.
• Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability.
• Participate in the design and implementation of new systems and infrastructure projects.

The Engineering Practices department sets and maintains the standards of engineering excellence used by all our teams across our diverse software engineering and technology department of over 400 staff. The department encompasses software architecture, agile practices and ways of working, quality processes, including “shift-left” initiatives and defensive security engineering.

This role manages Practice Leads across four main disciplines of Software Architecture, Agile Delivery, Quality & Security. Each Practice is a center of excellence that drives best practice, consistency in execution and creates a continuous improvement culture across each specialty.

At Nine Technology we strive for People and Engineering excellence in the way we deliver on our projects and platforms. As the Head Of Engineering Practices you’ll be leading the team setting the standards that guide our delivery teams. You will enable our teams to operate effectively, secure, design and deliver systems while continuously improving Engineering Practices.

This role is based out of Nine’s North Sydney Office, with an expectation to be in the office at least 3 days a week. 

Role Responsibilities:

• Lead the software engineering standards function with your previous experience building, designing and developing highly available, high traffic websites & systems.
• Use your DevOps & Cloud experience and communication skills to drive consensus across Nine to continue building our common application delivery platform using Kubernetes in AWS.
• Develop and own Nine Technology standards for Engineering platforms and systems, integrating legacy platforms, current and emerging patterns and systems.
• Create guidelines and procedures for Nine Technology teams to ensure solutions meet agreed and required standards.
• Create and maintain a maturity level framework to provide consistent and structured development helping teams across Nine to continuously improve.
• Use your leadership skills to inspire and empower the four Practice Leads to drive change and improvement across each of their practice disciplines.

Purpose of your role

As part of the Technology management team, this role will provide overall leadership and direction for OFX’s Capability Platforms, including the software engineering discipline to ensure core business goals are supported and successfully executed on.

Your primary responsibility will be building a practice of highly skilled and motivated software engineers and engineering managers, that are assigned to work in highly autonomous, cross-functional and empowered delivery teams. You will contribute to the OFX business objectives by coaching your direct reports to work as high performing teams, developing the culture and practices that ensure that every individual understands and is contributing to the overall Technology strategy.

You will collaborate with the Technology management team, including Engineering Directors, Head of Portfolio & Release Planning, Information Systems, and Security, to deliver impactful outcomes for OFX. You will also work with the Product division, and business stakeholders to ensure your portfolio delivers business value and aligns with the Technology strategy, security and compliance requirements, and budget.

Working with the Technology Management team, you will agree on cross-practice strategies for talent & resource management, engagement & delivery, vendor and technology standards, enterprise architecture, risk management and engineering tooling and culture. Outside of these common standards, the Engineer Director is responsible for the frameworks, methodologies, resource development, technology solutions and the operating model within the Product Platforms practice.

In addition to your background in software engineering and people management, you need soft skills in relationship building, team leadership, motivation, communication, and stakeholder management. You will ensure teams understand the vision, establish processes, facilitate collaboration, and make critical (sometimes tough) decisions to achieve delivery outcomes in an inclusive and overall enjoyable environment. 

What you do

• Set a Technical vision and define the strategy for the Capability Platforms domain including Payments, Treasury, FX, Pricing, Data, Cloud and Engineering platforms
• Ensure engineering and other practices and processes are defined, communicated, evolved and adhered to within your practice
• Lead architectural direction and decision making within your practice
• Effectively manage Tech Debt and software costs within your practice
• Management of Technology vendors, including financial budget, within your practice
• Set effective metrics and delivery methodologies in Delivery teams to ensure success
• Delegation and training of individuals within your team to ensure empowerment, autonomy and professional development while ensuring overall delivery objectives are achieved
• Management and mitigation of technology risks using proper governance
• Manage technology costs effectively including resourcing, vendors and infrastructure (where possible)
• Work with Product leads to identify metrics for products are identified a part of the delivery process and measured post release
• Ensure all product platforms are secure, reliable and built to scale
• Professional development of direct reports, identifying and nurturing high performing resources while effectively managing underperforming resources
• Ensure all direct reports have clear and measurable objectives which adhere to the divisions approach and relate to team, product and organisational metrics
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders, both Technology and other business divisions including effective ongoing communication approaches
• Work with the CTO, People and Culture and your peers in Product and Technology to evangelise OFX and Technology across the industry for the development of future OFX talent acquisition