About the Role

The Senior Technical Lead will be responsible for leading a team of technical leads and software developers, ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality software solutions, and driving technical excellence ISC’s internal and customer facing applications and digital platforms across Cloud, Web, Mobile, API. This role requires a blend of advanced technical expertise, strong leadership, and exceptional problem-solving abilities.

Our ideal Senior Technical Lead has:

• Excellent communication skills and ability to explain and present complex information and influence senior business and IT executives on technology decisions.
• Strong understanding of Atlassian tools (Confluence/Jira) as well as ITIL tools and frameworks.
• Committed to personal development with a professional attitude and client-service orientation.
• Ability to establish yourself as a trusted and indispensable adviser.
• Ability to work collaboratively and effectively in a cross functional team, with people at all levels of the organisation.
• Delivering outcomes to a high standard and within set targets (i.e. resource, time & budget).
• Ability to work efficiently and manage multiple concurrent projects, BAU priorities and disruptions that may arise from production support issues.
• Effective leadership, coordination, and negotiation skills.
• Strong initiative, drive and a pro-active approach.
• Demonstrated ability to self-start and work without supervision.
• Capable of controlling and managing risks, dependencies and changes in scope associated with complex IT projects and initiatives.
• Ability to work effectively at all levels, from technical teams, BAs, product owners, senior management, accounts staff and external customers or stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Leadership and Mentorship: Lead and mentor technical teams, providing guidance to ensure professional growth, while overseeing technical support and delivery in alignment with organizational standards.
• Technical Ownership and Code Quality Standards: Establish and enforce coding best practices, guidelines, and secure coding measures to maintain high-quality, consistent, and secure code.
• Cloud Architecture and API Development: Implement and optimize cloud-based architectures (e.g., serverless, microservices) and lead the design and maintenance of APIs and integration platforms.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate with stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions, leveraging AWS capabilities and ensuring alignment with business needs.
• Agile and DevOps Excellence: Drive delivery excellence using Agile methodologies and DevOps practices, focusing on continuous improvement, efficiency, and high-quality output.
• Performance and Reporting: Manage resource scheduling, team capacity, and provide regular status updates and reports on project progress, performance, and key milestones.

Qualifications

• Formal qualifications in Information Technology
• Accredited certification in any: Agile, Scrum, SLDC, DevOps, AWS/Cloud, or other relevant knowledge areas.

Experience

• 12+ years of experience in software design and development, with solid recent experience in a similar role, leading a team of permanent, contractor and vendor staff.
• 3+ years of people management experience leading full-stack engineering teams building services, APIs, Mobile and web applications.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, and best practices
• Experience with all levels of modern applications development and delivery methodologies, related processes and procedures, and team structures.
• Working Experience with Design and implement cloud-native applications using AWS services such as S3, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS
• Working Experience with programming languages, such as. netCore, C#, React JS, NodeJS, Go, Typescript or similar.
• Knowledge of microservices architecture, containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), and orchestration.
• Knowledge with DevOps practices and tools, such as Bitbucket, AWS DEVOPS Tools, Circle CI, NewRelic, or similar.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and project management tools.
• Experience with Incident Management and after-hours support for products in production

The successful candidate will be required to hold an appropriate visa/residency status for full time employment in Australia. For more information refer to the position description. Apply now via the link to submit your application (incl. resume).

What’s on offer?

The Australian red meat and livestock industry is passionate about caring about our animals, land, people and communities. Working together, we strive to push boundaries and continuously improve to ensure prosperity for the Australian red meat and livestock industry. We are focused on delivering world leading outcomes that fuel global competitiveness, sustainability and producer profitability

At Meat & Livestock Australia we offer a flexible hybrid work environment and benefits including paid parental leave, wellbeing support, rebatable employer salary packaging and social club activities. You'll learn on the job in a supportive environment and have access to learning and development opportunities so that you can continue to grow and develop your career.

Who are we?

Integrity Systems Company (ISC) develops, delivers and administers integrity programs and applications for the meat and livestock industry.  ISC is in the enviable position of being able to collaborate with industry experts on projects that range from modern progressive web applications to large scale IoT networks and sensors, drones, robotics, spatial data, machine learning and data visualisation, and other cutting-edge industry research that will underpin red meat integrity in the future. ISC is a fully owned subsidiary of Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA).

Applications close: 5 January 2025

If you have a question in relation to the advertised position, contact the Human Resources team by emailing careers@mla.com.au

Candidate screening and interviews may be conducted prior to the closing date of the advertisement. MLA reserves the right to close applications for the position prior to the advertised date. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.

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