Platform Engineer - Chapter Lead

Employment Type

Permanent

Closing Date

19 July 2024 11:59pm

Job Title

Platform Engineer - Chapter Lead

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

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: 

• Actively participate in building chapter capability through direct mentoring of the team in software engineering practices, understanding of new and emerging technologies, tools, approaches and processes so that you can model continuous learning and actively provide coaching and mentoring of other software engineering team members. 
• 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 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.    
• Significantly contribute to function and organisation strategy, practices and planning by drawing on your expertise and thorough understanding of the work across multiple team domains.    
• Actively models Telstra’s values and facilitates inclusive discussions across multiple teams that create goal driven alignment with organisational strategy and principles, as well as identifying actionable continuous improvement opportunities. 
• Manage the recruitment of permanent employees, and partner resources to build highly productive teams  
• Responsible for goal setting and performance appraisal of engineers 
• Ensure that co-workers are treated respectfully and without any form of discrimination, harassment or victimization 

Essential Skills

• B.E./B.Tech. in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronic Engineering or equivalent
• 10-15 years of professional experience in software engineering development and operations roles, preferably with some exposure to the Finance industry.
• At least 5 years’ experience in leading high performing software engineering teams in multi-site, multi-geography development environments
• Experience performing people leadership roles.
• 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

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/allrolesfle