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 strong 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 ***** 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 solid leaders
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Work with modern cloud-native architecture
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