Engineering Manager

3 months ago


Brisbane, Australia Rio Tinto Full time

**Engineering Manager - Brisbane, Australia**
- Rio Tinto is building a world-class software engineering capability_

Within our company-wide Information Systems & Technology function, we are building an internal software development and delivery team focussing on high-value and strategic products for the digital transformation of Rio Tinto.

We are building this capability and capacity with the support of a strategic partnership with Endava, one of the world’s leading software engineering companies. We are recruiting for junior, experienced and leadership roles to establish this capability for scaling as we shift our technology landscape to products and platforms. We are building a culture that is value driven, diverse and inclusive, innovative and fun with challenging problems and opportunities to solve.

**About the role**

We seek a dynamic and highly experienced technical leader with outstanding people leadership and stakeholder engagement skills. The Engineering Manager will be responsible for leading the development, testing and SecDevOps teams within the Products and Software Development function. They will collaborate with peers within the Product and Delivery functions to build high performance cross functional teams who deliver high quality products and platforms to Rio Tinto.

As the successful applicant you will be accountable for ensuring technical delivery within cross-functional agile teams. They will be responsible for growing the technical capability within P&SD as the function scales, including fostering high quality and highly valued Vacation Student and Graduate programs.

You will lead and oversee the development of complex systems and products, ensuring consistency with specified requirements agreed with stakeholders within and outside of P&SD. They will establish policy and strategy for the engineering capability and will ensure that appropriate standards (corporate, industry, national and international) are adhered to.

You are responsible for:

- Line management for teams of developers, testers and DevSecOps, nurturing talent, skills progression, managing performance and building team cohesiveness and engagement.
- Mentoring, coaching, advocacy and support to their direct team and to people within the broader P&SD function.
- Contributing to skill and capability development activities for the function as it scales, specifically related to growing and improving the technical capability in development, testing, SecDevOps and continuous delivery, including defining and verifying the engineering capability metrics.
- Fostering a culture of continuous learning and development within the Product and Software Development team.
- Provide expert advice and driving standards in all aspects of development, testing methods and DevSecOps implementation, tools, standards and processes to the wider Rio Tinto organisation.
- Work with the delivery leads to build high performing cross functional teams with the skills and experience matched to the product backlogs, including recruiting as needed to ensure the team has the right skills and experience to meet objectives.
- Collaborate and work with leaders and peers in managing the delivery of complex products, monitoring and controlling team performance against plans, maintaining effective financial and progress forecasting and reports as appropriate.
- Monitoring quality and performance against agreed criteria to ensure the quality of product deliverables.
- Ensuring realistic quality, and risk plans are prepared and maintained for products.
- Ensuring appropriate technical records are established and maintained. Advising on appropriate technical assurance criteria and conducting quality reviews of technical products. Ensuring the adequacy and effective use of quality control procedures.
- Supporting activities to develop new product opportunities and/or enhancing existing customer relationships.
- Developing and sustaining relationships with stakeholders to sustain interest, resolve concerns and negotiate, if necessary, on engineering capability, capacity and delivery matters.
- Developing a profile as a speaker, writer and influencer beyond the organisation through conference speaking and attendance, community events and publishing.

**Core competencies**
- Building and leading a growing team of engineers, providing vision, direction, regular communication and care to all team members.
- Building high performance cross functional delivery teams who deliver solutions in Agile.
- Actively shaping scope, requirements, technical details and staffing of product teams.
- Working with the technical teams on design and estimation tasks.
- Taking an active technical leadership role on product teams.
- Leading discussions and workshops with both internal team members and customers.
- Influencing at a senior level and at all levels of the organisation.
- Understanding of DevOps culture, CI/CD practices and tools.
- Inspirational, supportive leadership styl


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