Senior Engineering Director

7 days ago


Sydney, New South Wales, Australia News Corp Australia Full time

Job Summary

The Senior Engineering Director will oversee the Engineering functions across a number of direct and matrix teams, driving innovation and efficiency while ensuring the engineering artifacts developed as part of the project and operational delivery are aligned with published and agreed standards and guidelines.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement engineering principles, standards, and guidelines, and foster a culture of collaboration and technical excellence – both within the local developer community and also contributing to the broader organisational community of practice.
  • Be accountable for defining clear objectives and key results for the department, teams, and individuals, and use key metrics to evaluate performance and success.
  • Develop and implement strategies to drive innovation and increase engineering efficiency.
  • Oversee and guide Engineering / Development functions across multiple (direct and indirect) teams to ensure alignment with standards and guidelines for project and operational delivery.
  • Provide input into evaluating the performance and success measures for the development teams, and individuals by defining key metrics.
  • Lead Digital governance groups bringing together Architecture, Platform Managers, and Engineering teams to align on ways in which to solve complex technical challenges whilst limiting Technical Debt.
  • Participate in, and in some cases lead, communities of practice to align teams and/or introduce innovation.
  • Identify and in consultation with Architecture and Platform Managers develop strategies to address legacy elements of the stack and/or define future state.
  • Assist in attracting, retaining, and developing top engineering talent across FTE, Contracts, and Partners.
  • Building and mentoring high-performing teams (including delivery Partners) in fostering a culture of collaboration and technical excellence.

Requirements

  • Strategy – a proven track record in developing and leading strategy (development and implementations), including the ability to easily distil and articulate complex issues and remediation proposals and bring all cohorts and stakeholders along the journey in a positive manner.
  • Leadership – at ease leading, mentoring, and guiding a wide and varied team across traditional line management, matrix management, and with service providers (embedded, off-site, and offshore)
  • Positive, pragmatic, and resilient – this role operates in an ever-changing environment. These attributes will be key to success in the role.
  • Collaboration, approachability and engagement – the ability to build cross-team consensus on challenging issues often within a matrix environment.
  • Communication – conduct intelligent business and technology conversations with Senior Leaders.
  • Curious – with a continual improvement mindset you will have the ability to challenge norms inquisitive as to how and why – as opposed to this is how we have always done it.
  • Simplification – able to abstract simple messaging from complex scenarios in a timely manner
  • Influential and collaboration – the ability to drive consensus and tangible outcomes, demonstrated by breaking down silos and fostering cross communication process

About Us

News Corp Australia is a leading media group that informs, advocates, and inspires Australians. We are passionate about creating simple and scalable technology solutions, dynamic and innovative products, and a data capability that will deliver insights to grow our business. We are looking for exceptional people to join our Technology, Data & Digital (TDD) group, who are at the forefront of digital delivery and technology innovation for News Corp Australia.

We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and we encourage people of all ages, backgrounds, races, cultures, religions, sexual orientations, abilities, and gender identities to apply. We want everyone at News to bring their whole selves to work and feel valued and respected.



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