Employment Type
Permanent
Closing Date
20 Sept 2023 11:59pm
Job Title
Product Engineering Chapter Type Lead
Job Summary
Job Description
Connect with Telstra
We’re all about helping our customers connect faster, better, and smarter. And that’s where you come in, to help us realise our purpose to build a connected future so everyone can thrive.
Make a difference
As part of Product and Technology, your mission will be to capture market value at scale by building products that offers our customers a great experience, is seamless to deliver, and are profitable to the core.
Our teams use technology, automation, and innovation to try and decode the world’s biggest technological challenges in areas such as the Internet of Things (IoT), 5G, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, and more.
What is the focus of the role?
As a Product Engineering Chapter Type Lead, your role is to drive the establishment of software engineering practices that enhance curiosity, creativity, and innovation within your teams. Your technical leadership will play a pivotal role in shaping our software engineering workforce, practices, and technology. Your leadership expertise, business acumen, data-driven approach and experience fostering high standards of software development and operations will be instrumental as you:
* Develop and implement a workforce plan for building current and future capabilities within your teams.
* Collaborate with peer and teams to create an innovative workplace culture that fosters technology talent growth.
* Set an example as a leader in agile software design, development, and operations across multiple engineering teams.
* Understand the software product developed cycle and impalement improvement to provide an enhanced customer experience.
About the Product Engineering chapters
The Product Engineering chapters foster software engineering skills for resilient, scalable, and secure software products. Our DevOps teams handle full-cycle development and management of IT services. We develop Cloud Native services, utilise microservices, and employ serverless architecture, contributing to exceptional customer experiences. Our engineers excel in technical leadership, design, security, development, testing, service assurance, and incident resolution.
Key Responsibilities
Chapter Leadership:
* Build product capability within the chapter, including strategic work insourcing and expanding our Telstra Workforce globally.
* Uplift and embed product engineering practices and disciplines, driving modern technology company capabilities and culture.
* Grow talent, coach, and develop Chapter Leaders to deliver high-quality outcomes and provide guidance to Chapter Members.
* Ensure clarity on performance and expectations, manage workforce allocation and champion diversity.
* Collaborate with various leads to innovate practices and improve product engineering practices and people leadership skills.
* Role model continuous learning and provide clarity on capability requirements to inform chapter members’ development plans.
* Ensure that your Chapter leads ad members have clarity on performance, behavioural goals and expectation. Use feedback conversations to drive performance and uphold effective ways of working.
Product Engineering Principal – agile Group flow-to-work Responsibilities.
When working as a member of an initiative team, you bring strong expertise and a breadth of experience in product engineering and specifically to:
* Role model the highest software engineering standards and drive faster time to market and better outcomes throughout the software development lifecycle.
* Conduct and lead extensive cross functional and multi-team interaction to enable strategic mission outcome through effective capability and resourcing.
* Provide hands-on product engineering expertise and foster a culture of observability, continuous improvement, learning and development across teams.
* Stay updated on industry best practices, identify opportunities for culture, process and technology improvement and implement them across the organisation.
* Identify opportunities for technology-driven business growth and influence the market through thought leadership.
About you
To be successful in this role, you will bring:
* Product-oriented mindset with a focus on customer needs and market opportunities.
* Technical knowledge of software design, software programming, testing, CI/CD, and release pipelines.
* Software domain knowledge of mobile and web technologies. Including backend APIs microservices layers, infrastructure, and security.
* Collaborative ability to work with diverse stakeholders and drive commercial success.
* Data-driven decision-making skills using insights for strategy and workforce development.
If you are looking to take the next step in your career, we want to hear from you!
We encourage applications from people of all abilities and backgrounds - including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the LGBQTI+ community, linguistically diverse, and people living with disability. When you apply, you can choose to note the pronouns you use and /or any reasonable adjustments needed to take part equitably during the interview process.