Practice Lead - Software Engineer
Datacom, New Zealand
Job Description
Practice Lead Software Engineering
Our Purpose
Here at Datacom we connect people and technology in order to solve challenges, create opportunities and discover new possibilities for the communities we live in.
The nuts and bolts
We have over 6,200 people across our global offices, and generate an annual revenue of over $1.2 billion, this makes us one of Australasia’s largest professional IT services companies. We have extensive expertise in operating data centres, providing IT services, software engineering and application management, as well as payroll and customer service design and operations. With this comes a long list of significant clients Datacom is committed to hiring, developing and promoting the best talent from a diverse range of backgrounds. We are local at heart, yet world-class in capability.
About the Role
Datacom is on the lookout for a Software Engineering Practice Lead to join our Smartly Team. You will be a line manager of between 6 to 12 software engineers. You will also support, lead and coach one of our cross functional Agile teams to become self-organised, as well as facilitate impediment clearing and protecting the team from outside distractions. You will be continually facilitating the Agile team to reflect on their delivery and find ways to continually improve.
Our ideal candidate will have experience with people management, Agile methodologies or have worked in Agile environments and have software development experience (ideally in C# . NET and/or React).
What you’ll bring
You will be passionate about software engineering and building great teams, bringing a wealth of software development and people management experiences, and have exceptional understanding of principles and practices. Excellent communication skills, with a strong focus on helping create cohesive, collaborative, and productive virtual teams.
What you’ll do
· Organise, lead, and support an Agile squad. This may include facilitating some of the Agile ceremonies.
· Manage, coach and mentor software engineers. Have responsibility of all elements of managing people including giving them guidance with their career pathways.
· Work with the Product Owner, Business Analyst, QA Practice Lead and product squads to deliver customer outcomes.
· Support the Dev Leads by assisting the more junior engineers with their day-to-day work.
· Work with other Practice Leads in the business to share ideas and build processes and practices to help create better collaboration in the wider team and product quality.
Why you want to join us
At Datacom we believe that doing good, is good for business. We've maintained our local family feel whilst expanding globally, across Australia, ASIA, US and the UK. Our brand and reputation depend on ‘proving the promise' and we aspire to be the trusted advisor for our customers across Government and the private sector from enterprise scale to regional business. We offer our staff a competitive salary package, fantastic perks and benefits like healthcare, life insurance, discounts at local retailers and a supportive, flexible working environment.
If you want to join a company making a difference, apply now!