Engineering Lead

Engineering Lead – Digital We are looking for a senior engineering leader who will guide a team of skilled engineers to deliver high-quality development and production support across Cbus' digital and cloud platforms. The role involves designing and implementing technology solutions that meet business needs while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and industry best practices. Overview You'll demonstrate technical leadership by embedding CI / CD best practices throughout the software development lifecycle, maintaining strong awareness of system security processes—including early-stage scanning (SCA, SAST, DAST)—and ensuring all activities comply with current information-security standards. Staying abreast of emerging trends and technologies, you will help shape the future of Cbus' digital delivery. Key Responsibilities Provide expert advice on application architecture best practices, lead technical design, and deliver estimations based on the existing digital stack and any new cloud services required. Ensure timely, high-quality delivery of fit-for-purpose digital and cloud solutions through close collaboration with Digital, Data & Technology (DD&T), business stakeholders, and external partners, with a focus on long‑term supportability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. Translate product owner requirements into fully developed, customer‑ready functionality, while enabling and supporting production capabilities such as logging, monitoring, alerting, and incident response. Support testing activities across digital and cloud platforms, maintain accurate application documentation, and ensure robust change control through versioning and configuration management. Monitor and report on system development progress, proactively manage exceptions and issues, and contribute to post‑implementation reviews to embed continuous improvement into future delivery. Demonstrate a clear understanding of platform utilisation and the associated costs of each solution to ensure cost‑effective design and implementation. Participate in recruitment and resourcing activities and lead & mentor team members to foster a high‑performing, innovative team culture. About You You're a strategic and hands‑on engineering leader who thrives in complex environments. You bring a strong architectural mindset, a passion for secure and scalable software delivery, and a collaborative approach to working across teams. You're proactive, solutions‑focused, and committed to continuous improvement, with the ability to balance technical depth with business outcomes. You will bring Proven experience designing and developing cloud‑native digital solutions with diverse industry experience. Strong background in leading engineering teams, mentoring and fostering growth. Hands‑on experience in REST APIs using OpenAPI specifications and implementing Microservices architecture. Proven experience designing multi‑step workflows using AWS Step Functions and Lambda (or equivalent cloud‑native tools), implementing CI / CD best practices with platforms like Azure DevOps or Jenkins, and applying expert‑level branching and merging strategies for efficient, collaborative code management. Strong understanding of testing boundaries with hands‑on experience writing effective unit and integration tests, complemented by familiarity with logging best practices to support robust monitoring and troubleshooting in large‑scale systems. Deep understanding of Event Driven Architecture and secure coding practices with awareness of OWASP Top 10 and cloud security best practices. Experience working in an agile team utilising Scrum or Kanban methodologies. Some added advantage: experience with large‑scale digital transformation, headless architecture & micro frontends, UI / UX knowledge, Domain Driven Design, Test‑Driven Development. Diversity & Inclusion We value difference, and embrace people with diverse backgrounds, experiences, gender identities, abilities and thinking styles. We believe that, with diversity of perspectives and experiences, we get better teams and outcomes. We're looking for people of all genders, races, nationalities, orientations and of all abilities to join us. How to Apply If you've read through the requirements of this role and you feel like you haven't fully met the criteria, we would still encourage you to apply. We're aware of accessibility barriers when it comes to applying for a job and we want to help. If you require assistance with your application, please contact our Talent Acquisition Team via . Applications Close : Tuesday, 18 November . Note to Agencies : All Cbus vacancies are managed by our internal Talent Acquisition Team. Should external assistance be required we will reach out to our preferred agency partners. Thank you. Job Details Location : Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Employment type : Full‑time Seniority level : Mid‑Senior level Job function : Information Technology Application deadline : Tuesday, 18 November #J Ljbffr #J-18808-Ljbffr