Telstra Hiring for Staff Software Engineer Job at Australia, Australia Full Time

At Telstra, our purpose is to build a connected future so everyone can thrive. It’s a future that won’t happen on its own, it has to be delivered — and only Telstra can bring together all the parts to create it. And, this is where YOU come in, by playing your part in help our customers connect: faster, better and smarter.

The role with us

As a Staff Engineer, within Telstra Software Engineering, your role is two-fold where you will combine your strong expertise in Software Engineering with influencing large group of engineers in order to create, enhance and apply best engineering practices, contribute to architecture and technical solution and build strategy for technical capabilities in a domain.

You will be joining the Telstra Software Engineering, Usage, Cash & Billing Chapter Type.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute to continuous evolution of technical components managed by domain by working on technology and architecture roadmaps (mid-term and long-term views).
• Own the engineering operations for the services that the DevOps teams have deployed in production.
• Work across teams to foster an architecture that enables iterative, autonomous development and future scaling. Provide guidance to multiple teams in anticipation of future use cases, helping them make design decisions that minimize the cost of future changes.
• Build strong commercial capability across multiple teams by modelling well developed commercial thinking, balancing cost and value to decide the most economic action the delivers good outcomes.
• Foster a culture of observability across several teams and help them use operational data to improve stability and performance of their domains.
• Actively participate in building chapter technical capability through direct mentoring of the team in software engineering practices, understanding of new and emerging technologies, tools, approaches and processes.
• Actively collaborate with the security team, to foster and model a security first mindset and apply the organization’s security strategy across multiple teams. Be able to guide teams through these processes and continuously improve this culture.
• Demonstrate and influence effective decision making and responsible actions, without having the total picture to handle risk, change, and uncertainty across several teams during routine business, as well as when in high pressure situations.
• Actively build a culture of knowledge sharing and documentation that is based on giving and receiving positive and constructive feedback. Use this as a base for continuous learning and capability building.

About you

To be successful in the role, you need to have:

Essential

• At least 8-10 years of professional experience in software engineering development and operations roles, preferably with some exposure to the Finance industry.
• Strong background in Software Product Architecture, Development, Testing, and Support of Production Software
• Strong background in Programming Languages (Java/Python/Node.JS,), Tools and Frameworks.
• Experience in software development/deployment into public cloud environments including experience with public cloud services (AWS).
• Experience with Operations decision making and incident management.
• Experience in DevOps software development/deployment practices (including CI and CD), source control and pipelines as code, to reduce cycle time while retaining quality
• Experience with microservices architecture and development and container orchestration.
• Experience in delivering projects as part of an agile team.
• Willingness to learn new technologies and keen to drive innovation
• Excellent written and verbal communication, problem solving and time management skills
• Strong coaching, critical thinking, and influencing skills

Highly desirable:

• Experience performing people leadership roles.
• At least 5 years’ experience in leading high performing software engineering teams in multi-site, multi-geography development environments

If this opportunity sounds like a perfect fit for you, we’d encourage you to apply!

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We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce in all its forms. We encourage applicants from diverse gender, cultural and linguistic backgrounds and applicants who may be living with a disability. We also offer flexibility in all our roles, to ensure everyone can participate.

To learn more about how we support our people, including accessibility adjustments we can provide you through the recruitment process, visit tel.st/thrive.