Service NSW Hiring for Head of Software Engineering Job at Sydney, Australia Full Time

• Flexible working arrangements (remote working options, flexible hours and more)
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  Salary range $139,246 – $167,518 base + super + leave loading
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  Innovative and exciting digital projects
• Over 200 digital products, developed and managed by over 50 cross-functional product teams

About Us:

Service NSW is at the cutting edge of technology and is expanding our digital teams to manage the demands of delivering innovative services to the millions of NSW residents. We need a range of skill levels to enhance our existing teams, including people with extensive experience through to emerging talent with strong foundation skills and huge potential. If you’re looking for an opportunity to shine, then look no further!

People with a disability are strongly encouraged to apply and we welcome a discussion regarding workplace adjustments to help maximise everyone’s opportunity to fully participate and contribute.

What we offer

• Working on products & services that are meaningful and make a difference.
• Key senior role within the business in a dynamic and collaborative delivery environment.
• Contribute to innovative and exciting digital projects.

This role is responsible for leading and maturing an enterprise-scale engineering practice. It will help spread quality engineering practices and establish supporting frameworks and structures to allow software engineers to do their best work, fulfill their potential, and deliver quality software continuously.

Key responsibilities include:

• Proactively introduce and drive key initiatives to improve software engineering practices, capability and skills, informed by data, experiments and frequent feedback.
• Establish structures to champion, share, grow and coordinate quality engineering practices.
• Provide strategic guidance and engineering direction / expertise across multiple product portfolios, including facilitation and communication to bring teams together.
• Drive and continuously refine the recruitment process for engineers across the division.

We take a cloud-native approach building most of our services in the cloud and hosted in container orchestration platforms. The majority of our digital services are bespoke applications, leveraging shared services to ensure cost effectiveness and scalability.

About you:

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  Expertise: Rich software engineering background, including experience in full stack web development with exposure to a broad range of technologies. Experience in Extreme Programming (XP), including Test Driven Development and Pair Programming, and willing to spread the values, principles and practices underpinning this approach.
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  Collaboration: Strong product mindset, having worked closely with cross-disciplinary product teams.
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  Leadership: Fostered effective working relationships with people and teams at all levels, using an approach grounded in empathy and curiosity. Aligning diverse people and perspectives through lateral influence and using data and experiments Experience leading, mentoring and coaching a large group of engineers across teams, ideally in a complex enterprise context.
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  Customer-oriented and proud: Strong communication and stakeholder management skills You are motivated by, and take ownership of, delivering valuable outcomes to the people who use your software.
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  Attention to detail: Your ability to identify inconsistencies and errors is critical.
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  Outstanding communication and problem-solving skills: Your exceptional verbal and written skills, together with practical problem solving will see you excel in this role.

At Service NSW we use XP practices (including TDD, pair programming and CI/CD) to design and build fast, stable software and release it to our customers quickly. We are committed to iterative delivery using the build, measure, learn paradigm and we pride ourselves on being responsive to customers’ needs.
Our teams collaborate to design and implement the right solutions, applying lean problem-solving to deliver value within a complex ecosystem. We work with Java (Spring), JavaScript (React.js, Angular.js, Node.js), AWS Cloud, Cloud Foundry and Apigee to deliver end-to-end platforms.

To Apply:
Please submit a current copy of your resume.

Thank you for your interest in joining Service NSW

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