Tech Lead

Drive strategic and tactical solutions on our delivery roadmap through our digital development platforms. Leverage your strong communication skills to inspire our teams and collaborate to promote the adoption of continuous delivery best practices by identifying, planning and implementing automation opportunities.
- Senior Officer: $155,000 - $175,000 p/a incl. 11% superannuation
- Permanent full time vacancy (flexible work arrangements) - career development coaching and mentoring opportunities
- Flexibility to WFH and/or in our Footscray office (located 200m from Footscray train station)

**About Greater Western Water**

We’re waterand more.

GWW is a Victorian government owned water corporation that provides an essential service to some of the fastest-growing communities in Australia, stretching from Melbourne’s CBD to Lancefield in the north and Bacchus Marsh in the west. Click here for more info

**Benefits**
- Flexibility to WFH and/or in our Footscray office (located 200m from Footscray train station)
- We are progressive, where you will have a voice: we are inclusive at all levels with a flat hierarchal structure
- Work within a sustainable pace
- Career development coaching and mentoring opportunities
- Free income protection and salary continuance insurance
- Gender neutral, 16-week parental leave available from commencement
- Monthly work life balance day off to treat yourself (if full-time)
- Wellbeing, prayer and sensory rooms in the Footscray and Sunbury offices
- Gifted recognition programs
- Access to corporate health insurance deals with major providers

**The opportunity**

As one of our Tech. Leads, you will ensure the quality and effectiveness of solutions by ensuring that coding standards are followed. You will be there to mentor other developers and practice intent-based leadership. Your role is critical to maintaining GWW’s existing codebase and crafting a working environment in line with our aspirations of becoming a digital utility. You will also play a meaningful part in growing and championing architecture principles and best-practices, aligning software delivery with industry standards, and ensure software solutions have a smooth path to production.

**Responsibilities**
- **Leadership and Influence** - Lead people to understand the why and deliver great outcomes for customers and our business.
- **Project Management** - Oversee delivery plan, monitoring and adapt as needed to provide software solutions.
- **Solutions Development & Implementation** - Resource planning to design and deliver quality outcomes for sustainable ownership
- **Digital Strategy and Architecture** - Ensure that software leverages re-use and composability principles.

**Skills & Experience**

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- 5+ years’ software development experience with demonstrated experience in automation
- 2+ years in a Technical Lead capacity
- Experience designing and building cloud Continuous Delivery pipelines.
- Cloud environment setup and management
- Excellent understanding of automation technologies, practices, principles, frameworks and implementation methodologies
- Excellent engagement and communication skills (written/oral). Demonstrated ability to influence and negotiate with team members, including the ability to communicate sophisticated concepts and to obtain approvals for designs
- Experience assessing automation requests through a technical lens to provide sizing estimates and component reuse opportunities
- Experience leading remote development teams, and managing specialist / technical workforces to deliver outcomes
- Have worked in teams using Agile ways of working (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, XP)

**It is also desirable to have experience in**:

- Vendor and partner management
- Microsoft Azure
- Microsoft Azure Pipelines
- Microsoft Azure DevOps Services
- Python, Shell, PowerShell, or Java

**See yourself thrive**

Our vision for GWW is Thriving People and Country. We aim to be as diverse as the communities we serve and are deeply committed to building a workplace where everybody thrives. We’re supportive, inclusive, and friendly, and value everyone for who they are and what they can bring.

We’re seeking applicants across all cultural backgrounds, genders, and abilities, and will make reasonable adjustments as required, so please talk to us about what you need.

Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role, we encourage you to apply.

**Application Process**: To apply, you will need a resume outlining your skills, experience, and suitability for the role.

**Applications close**:11:59pm Sunday, 25 February