Engineering Team Lead

About the role

Iress, one of Australia's largest technology companies, is hiring an Engineering Team Lead in Sydney. The role combines technical engineering with collaborative leadership, focusing on key specialisations such as Software, Data, Security, Support and Reliability, while building domain expertise in areas such as Trading, Lending or Advice. The engineer delivers high-quality software across the full product lifecycle, from inception to deployment and production support.

Key responsibilities

• Own the team's delivery of agreed product priorities, manage capacity and dependencies, and give clear visibility of progress, risks and trade-offs
• Lead people: set expectations, give regular feedback and coaching, and run development plans and knowledge sharing
• Ensure solutions meet architecture, security, quality and maintainability standards, with design reviews, code reviews, testing and documentation
• Maintain reliability and performance of the team's services, including monitoring, incident response and root cause resolution
• Work with Product to clarify requirements, assess feasibility and give estimates and technical advice
• Improve engineering practices, tools and processes, encourage automation, and manage technical debt and lifecycle risks
• Coordinate with other engineering teams, embed security, privacy, risk and compliance requirements, and build an inclusive, collaborative team

Required profile

• Strong software engineering experience with the depth to guide design decisions and support engineers
• Demonstrated ability to lead, coach and develop engineers and to manage performance
• Ability to turn product priorities into realistic engineering plans and manage capacity and dependencies
• Sound knowledge of modern development practices, including automated testing, CI/CD, code review, observability and secure development
• Clear communication with technical and non-technical audiences, and customer and commercial awareness
• Experience in financial services or a regulated software environment is desirable

What we offer

• 8 additional paid days per year
• Hybrid working
• Cash bonus for successful referrals
• School leave of 8.5 days and up to 26 weeks' paid parental leave, with part-time work possible after return
• Charity leave of 3 days per year
• Discounted health insurance premiums
• Learning and development access