Employment Type

Permanent

Closing Date

6 Dec 2024 11:59pm

Job Title

Lead Engineer - Full Stack - Java/React

Job Summary

As a Software Engineering Chapter Lead – Senior Lead, your role is two-fold where you combine your strong expertise in Software Engineering with people leadership. Through your passion for leadership you connect, engage and develop your chapter members so they deliver value aligned to Telstra’s strategic roadmap.

Through your initiative work, you act as a catalyst for the enterprise. You bring experience in the Software Engineering technical domain and work with multiple stakeholders to understand business needs, and help shape our Software Engineering strategy, solutions and capability to ensure we continuously deliver value to our customers.

Job Description

About us

At Telstra, we have a clear purpose: to build a connected future so everyone can thrive. We believe it’s people who give purpose to our technology. So we are committed to staying close to our customers and providing them the best experience. And delivering the best technology. This is where YOU come in, by playing your part in helping our customers connect: faster, better and smarter.

Who are we?

Telstra is Australia's leading telecommunications and technology company with a rich heritage that’s been built over 100 years. From our humble beginnings in the Postmaster General’s Office to the global business we are today our people have been at the forefront of technology innovation. More recently, we have the largest Internet of Things network in Australia and are leading the way in 5G. And this is just the beginning of what we’re hoping to achieve together.We offer a full range of services and compete in all telecommunications markets throughout Australia and are the most well-known brand in technology and communications industry. We have operations in more than 20 countries, including in India. In India we are a licensed Telecom Service provider (TSP) and have extended our global networks into India with offices in Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi. We’ve opened an Innovation and Capability Centre (ICC) in Bangalore, and have a presence in Pune and Hyderabad. In India, we’ve set out to build a platform for innovative delivery and engagement that will strengthen our position as an industry leader. We’re combining innovation, automation and technology to solve the world’s biggest technological challenges in areas such as Internet of Things (IoT), 5G, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, and more.

Responsibilities

• Building strong, trusting relationships within teams that enable a high performing team culture aligned to living our values.
• Providing clarity on performance, behavioural goals and expectations to your chapter team to ensure that they can contribute to both mission and chapter activity.
• Managing resource allocation, including recruitment and/or selection, to ensure capability required is available and resourcing issues are mitigated, in collaboration with Group Owners.
• Collaborating with Chapter Area Lead and other Chapter Leads to determine and implement tools/common practices to be used by Chapter Members.
• Providing clarity to chapter members on current and future capability requirements to enable them to own and drive their development so they can continually grow and add value in different ways.
• Ensure functional business requirements and epics are translated into customer solutions that align to agreed strategy, architecture, and technology roadmaps.
• 10+ years of Hands-on experience in coding and application development, delivering solutions to meet customer needs and adhering to coding, quality and design standards.
• People Development/ Management & Career development
• Performance Management including coaching/ providing difficult feedback.
• Negotiation/ Conflict Management
• Building High performing teams with empowerment, autonomy, and alignment
• Engineering Processes, Practices & Tools ( E.g TDD, CI/CD, DevOps, etc)
• Engineering Leadership (You have a big picture focus and identify ways in which the team or the technology/solution can be improved, and you drive the resolution)
• Stakeholder Management
• Delivery/ Ways of Working improvement (Agile DevOps principles, automation & Ops excellence)
• Strategic Thinking & Communication skills
• Demonstrated experience in coaching and mentoring technologists with differing levels of knowledge and experience in the end-to-end application development process, to leverage capabilities and deliver efficiencies and customer outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience in supporting individuals and teams in a positive environment to develop skills and uplift capabilities, to ensure services are delivered to quality standards and within agreed timeframes.
• Represent relevant teams or projects in strategic discussions, forming collaborative relationships with internal and external parties and stakeholders and managing expectations.
• Create a culture in which employees take responsibility, help each other to be successful, and remain a step ahead.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of the IT strategy in your domain.
• Demonstrate a “secure by design" mentality, considering techniques that strengthen the security of software systems, applying “defence in depth.”
• Excellent communication skills and strong experience working with and across multiple Agile teams.

Skills Required:

• Hands-on expertise in one or more languages Java, Kotlin, Swift, JavaScript & HTML/CSS
• Expert knowledge in UI Technologies like React.JS development
• Expert knowledge in Microservices architecture and REST APIs
• Hands-on development experience in AWS/PCF
• Exposure to Docker and Kubernetes concepts and components
• Experience developing in an Agile environment using CI/CD pipelines and Git

What can we offer you?

At Telstra, you can thrive, your way. We foster new ideas, we embrace different ways of working and thinking, and we believe an inclusive and diverse team will lead us to innovate for the future.​ We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. To enable everyone to participate, we’ve developed an ‘All Roles Flex’ policy to consider flexible ways of working for every role. To learn more, visit our Telstra Careers Website: http://tel.st/allrolesflex