AI and Innovation - Senior Engineering Manager - Melbourne, Adelaide or Sydney

DXC Technology is a leading global IT services and consulting organisation, operating in more than 60 countries with over 120,000 employees worldwide. In Australia, DXC partners with government and enterprise organisations to deliver large-scale digital transformation, cloud, applications, data, cybersecurity, and managed services solutions across a broad range of industries.

Senior Engineering Manager – Melbourne, Adelaide or Sydney

We’ve built a cloud-native, AI-first platform (Oasis) that powers managed services for global enterprises. The architecture and product vision are set - what we need now is a Senior Engineering Manager who can take that vision and run the engineering team week after week.

This role is hands-on and you’ll also be the person the Chief Architect trusts to keep the team moving in the right direction without constant oversight - catching drift early, raising the right flags, be in the trenches on incidents, and making good calls in the gaps. You’ll partner closely with our Technical Project Manager on project planning, and with the Chief Architect on technical direction, the Lead Engineers on technical matters, but the day-to-day execution and team health are yours to own.

If you’re a strong senior engineer who has grown into leading people, and you’re energized by being the dependable force that turns architectural intent into shipping software - this is your role.

What You’ll Own

- Translate the Chief Architect’s vision into shipped code - you’re the person who makes sure what’s on the whiteboard is what’s actually running in production
- Lead a team of 5-10 engineers day-to-day - 1:1s, growth plans, performance conversations, hiring, and making sure people are doing their best work
- Stay hands-on - lead the hardest reviews,



pair on tough debugging sessions, surface the right issues, make sound calls in the gaps, and don’t let things drift
- Mentor engineers at all levels - grow juniors into mids, mids into seniors, and help your seniors think like tech leads
- Partner with the Technical Project Manager on sprint planning, capacity, estimates, and delivery tracking - you bring the technical truth, they bring the delivery discipline
- Own technical execution quality - code review standards, architectural pattern adherence, testing rigor, observability, and operational readiness
- Make tactical technical decisions inside established architectural guardrails - library choices, implementation approaches, refactor timing - and know when to elevate
- Drive platform reliability - uptime, performance, security posture, incident response, and post-mortems that actually change things
- Build a culture of engineering craftsmanship - the kind where the team holds the bar even when no one’s watching

Required Qualifications

- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years leading engineering teams in production environments
- Strong track record executing on technical direction set by architects or senior technical leadership - comfortable making vision real, not always defining it
- Deep working knowledge of microservices, cloud-native design patterns, and API-first development
- Strong experience with Python, GraphQL, REST APIs, SQL, and modern development toolchains




- Solid background in CI/CD, containers (Docker/Kubernetes), infrastructure as code, and DevSecOps practices
- Shipped production systems on AWS or comparable cloud infrastructure - ideally multi-tenant SaaS
- Comfortable running agile delivery - sprints, estimation, capacity planning, Jira or equivalent
- Detail-oriented - things don’t fall through the cracks on your watch

Solid Preference For

- Experience leading small-to-mid sized engineering teams (5-10) in fast-paced environments. International experience is highly regarded.
- Background building enterprise SaaS platforms or developer-facing products
- Experience with Kubernetes, service mesh (Istio or similar), and federated GraphQL
- Exposure to AI/ML platforms, agentic workflows, or LLM-based product features
- Experience leading distributed or remote engineering teams
- Strong familiarity with observability, monitoring, SRE practices, and incident response
- History of growing engineers - people who’ve worked for you have moved up because of it

Why Join Us?

This is a chance to be the engineering leader who makes a real platform real - a modern, AI-first cloud platform that’s changing how enterprises consume managed services. The architectural vision is set and the product is in market; what we need now is the operator who can make sure execution matches ambition. You’ll work directly with a Chief Architect who needs a trusted partner on the ground while they get pulled into the next set of strategic problems, alongside a Technical Project Manager who owns delivery coordination so you can stay focused on engineering. If you’re ready to be the senior engineering leader a team and a platform can depend on - the one who turns vision into reality - we’d like to talk.

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📌 AI and Innovation - Senior Engineering Manager - Melbourne, Adelaide or Sydney
🏢 Dxc Technology
📍 Melbourne