Engineering Manager

Sydney, NSW | Hybrid (3 days in office)

$200,000 Base + Super The Role A technology company is recruiting an Engineering Manager to lead engineering operations of an automotive platform. You'll take full ownership of a 20+ person engineering organisation during a major technology transformation.

What You'll Own

- Lead and develop Squad Leads - building lasting leadership capability across the team

- Own delivery execution: sequencing, resourcing, and trade-offs across initiatives

- Manage vendor and third-party delivery partner relationships

- Drive infrastructure and cost optimisation (cloud spend, tooling)

- Hire, develop and performance-manage your team

- Shape team productivity—agile rituals, tooling, and AI-first ways of working

About You

- Experience to manage 10-20 engineers across multiple teams in complex, long-lived products

- Genuine architecture-level technical depth,



credible on system design and trade-offs

- Distributed/offshore team leadership experience

- Vendor management experience

- Track record of developing leaders, not just managing individuals

Strongly Preferred

- AWS and data warehouse technology experience

- Rapid domain expertise building in customised product environments

- AI tooling adoption leadership

- B2B data product experience

- Databricks experience

Why Join?

- Full ownership of a strategic engineering organisation during transformation

- Lead distributed teams across multiple locations

- Partnership-based decision-making with senior leadership

- Build and develop strong leaders

- Work with up-to-date cloud-native architecture

If you're ready to take the helm, get in touch.

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