Job Description

Engineering Manager

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Sydney, NSW | Hybrid (3 days in office)

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$200,000 Base + Super

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The Role

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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 (3 squads + QA, including offshore) during a major technology transformation. This is a hands-on technical leadership role. In the first 6-12 months, you'll combine architecture and solutioning with people leadership, actively contributing at code level while developing your Squad Leads into robust leaders.

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What You'll Own

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- Lead and develop Squad Leads - building lasting leadership capability across the team
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- Actively contribute at code level (Java, MySQL)
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- Own delivery execution: sequencing, resourcing, and trade-offs across initiatives
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- Manage vendor and third-party delivery partner relationships
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- Drive infrastructure and cost optimisation (cloud spend, tooling)
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- Hire, develop and performance-manage your team
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- Shape team productivity - agile rituals, tooling, and AI-first ways of working
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About You

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- Experience managing 10-20 engineers across multiple teams in complex, long-lived products
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- Genuine architecture-level technical depth, credible on system design and trade-offs
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- Hands-on Java and MySQL proficiency
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- Hands-on AWS and data warehouse technology fluency
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- Distributed/offshore team leadership experience
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- Vendor management experience
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- Track record of developing leaders, not just managing individuals
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Strongly Preferred

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- Rapid domain expertise building in customised product environments
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- AI tooling adoption leadership
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- Operated as the most senior technical voice in your team
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- B2B data product experience
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- Databricks experience
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Why Join?

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- Full ownership of a strategic engineering organisation during transformation
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- Hands-on technical leadership paired with people development
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- Lead distributed teams across multiple locations
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- Partnership-based decision-making with senior leadershipBuild and develop strong leaders
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- Work with modern cloud-native architecture
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📌 Engineering Manager (New South Wales)
🏢 UpTeam
📍 New South Wales