Who we are: What is the structure and culture of the team like?

VMware Tanzu Labs (formerly Pivotal Labs) is a leading software consultancy founded in Silicon Valley in 1989. We have over 30 years experience working with over half of Fortune 500 companies to become leaders in the digital economy.

The ANZ App Services team is composed of Product Managers, Product Designers, and Software Engineers. We are based in Sydney, but also collaborate a lot with other offices in the Asia Pacific region, including Singapore, Japan and Korea.

We partner with organisations to build and modernise digital products, leveraging Lean Product Management, User Centred Design, and Extreme Programming practices. We are hungry to learn, love sharing what we know, and we are supported by active communities of practice. We strive for diverse teams because we know they are the most successful. We like to keep things simple, do what works, and treat each other with respect and kindness.

Our principles are:

• Empower Teams
• Start Simple
• Embrace Change
• Deliver Early and Often
• Improve Continuously
• Give Back

The Elevator Pitch: Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?

Ready to build? So are we! Come join us to help customers build, run and manage their most important applications, helping them not only build great software but modernise existing, mission-critical software into cloud-native applications. We build applications with velocity to run in a cloud-native environment, run open-source Kubernetes with consistency, and manage our customers’ entire footprint with confidence to help them achieve their business outcomes. VMware Tanzu Labs is a recognised leader in software modernisation.

Our Software Engineers embrace Extreme Programming (XP) as a way to go fast forever and deliver remarkable results. Our product managers and product designers work side-by-side with our engineers in small, empowered, autonomous teams, using Lean and User-Centred Design as complementary product development practices. We measure success by making our customers more productive, as software developers, product managers, and product designers. We enable our customers to build high quality products and own their modernisation journey.

Software Engineers in our ANZ Application Services team work with many of the region’s most influential companies and agencies. Our approach is constantly evolving and is informed by over 30 years of experience and continuous improvement and blends agile/XP with Domain-Driven Design and cutting-edge cloud-native application transformation strategies. To learn more about Tanzu Labs, please visit https://tanzu.vmware.com/labs and https://tanzu.vmware.com/careers.

The Work: What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis?

This is a consulting role that requires you to be able to work collaboratively with clients and colleagues on cross-functional product teams. You’ll need strong communication skills, technical fluency, empathy, humility, and an appreciation for and understanding of lean startup, agile, and user-centered design values, principles, and practices.

As a software engineer, you will pair daily with client software engineers, coaching them in Extreme Programming (XP) methodologies, such as pair programming, test-driven development, and continuous integration and delivery. You will work with a team of product managers, designers, and engineers to enable your client team to deliver and iterate on high-quality software products that deliver user and business value.

Tanzu Labs is a global organisation and the Sydney Office services clients across all of Australia and New Zealand. In addition, we often work closely with our Singapore, Japan and Korea offices to deliver success for clients across the Asia Pacific region.

You Will Be Responsible For:

• Working with your client engineers to enable them in XP software development practices and/or application modernisation practices

• Pair programming with clients and other VMware Tanzu Labs engineers to build/modernise software based on the team’s backlog

• Leading one or more teams through complex engineering efforts

• Managing risk and uncertainty while moving the team forward

• Teaching your client pairs how to do the above for themselves

• Enabling client leadership to grow their own engineering practice

• Contributing back to VMware Tanzu Lab’s engineering practice through mentorship, giving talks, and experience reports

Where is this role located?

Like many companies, the COVID pandemic has changed how we work. We are fortunate to be capable of running a strong business in a 100% remote working environment. However, we believe that the fastest way to build authentic relationships is in person. Our role as consultants requires us to work well with new teammates on many types of engagements. We navigate large customer organisations, facilitate team building and work towards shared goals. We’ve found that we can do this remotely, but it is faster when we are co-located. Kicking off customer engagements in-person also fosters happier and more productive remote days. We expect in-person collaboration at one of our offices, or at the customer’s site, which will require travel of 10-25%.

What is the leadership like for this role?

The hiring manager for this role is Erika Buenaventura, a Delivery Lead for the ANZ Application Services team at VMware Tanzu Labs. Erika is motivated by opportunities to help people who make software feel more fulfilled and happy at work. He has a diverse background and his primary focus at Tanzu Labs is building an effective and engaged team to help clients deliver high-value products to people who need them.

Success in the Role: What are the performance outcomes over the first 6-12 months that you will work toward completing?

• 1st Day: You’ve had a great first day, met your manager and a couple of your peers who’ve welcomed you to the company and answered any burning questions you have. You also have a nice new computer setup!

• 1st Week: You have a good sense of our Labs practices and shadowed some sessions to see it work in practice. You have learned about our clients, tools, techniques, and role within VMware. You’re more integrated into the wider Software Engineering practice and understand how you’re a critical part of that.

• 1st Month: You’ve joined your first project and paired with other Software Engineers to apply your skills and deliver great software while enabling your client pairs to do the same. Your Product Manager and Designer teammates are fantastic practitioners and excited to collaborate with you.

• 1st 3 Months: You’ve made amazing improvements to your engineering skills! You feel more comfortable helping less experienced client engineers build, test, and deploy great software. You’ve helped our clients be effective engineers in an Extreme Programming environment. You feel capable of adapting your style to the needs of your team. You will keep your team productive and be a great communicator to executives. You paired with your manager to create goals aligned to your career and development interests. You have the support and resources at hand to go on that journey.

• 1st Year: You’ve succeeded in shipping a lot of valuable software using a variety of technical stacks within different client contexts! You’ve improved the skills and abilities of your client teammates so that they can keep building great products themselves! You’ve become an active member of our diverse engineering and modernisation community!

What are the benefits and perks of working at VMware?

You and your loved ones will be supported with a competitive and comprehensive benefits package. Below are some highlights, or you can view the complete benefits package by visiting benefits.vmware.com.

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Medical Coverage, Retirement, and Parental Leave Plans for All Family Types

• Generous Time Off Programs

• 40 hours of paid time to volunteer in your community

• Rethink’s Neurodiversity program to support parents raising children with learning or behaviour challenges, or developmental disabilities

• Financial contributions to your ongoing development (conference participation, trainings, course work, etc.)

• Wellness reimbursement and online fitness and wellbeing classes

EPIC2 values

VMware culture is based on a set of shared values best expressed through the acronym EPIC2: execution, passion, integrity, customers, and community. These values imbue everything that we do, from our products and services to our community work through the VMware Foundation.

It’s not unusual for a company to develop a set of core values. Where VMware stands out—and a major reason the company’s strong corporate culture has been recognised—is that the company’s values are a living, dynamic part of the workplace.

VMware was named in Forbes as one of America’s Best Employers for Women, coming at number 3 in the IT category and number 57 overall (out of 300!).

Category : Engineering and Technology
Subcategory: Software Engineering
Experience: Manager and Professional
Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time
Posted Date: 2023-01-10

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