Engineering Manager

1 week ago

Melbourne Western Suburbs, Australia Victorian Government Full time

**Overview**:
**Work Type**:Fixed-term - Full-time

**Salary**: $188,297 - $210,891

**Grade**:VPS 7

**Occupation**:IT and telecommunications

**Location**:Melbourne - Western suburbs

**Reference**:VG/1876797

Come and join Service Victoria in this senior leadership role and utilise your skills as an Engineer Manager.
- The Department of Government Services (DGS) was established on 1 January 2023 to improve everyone's experience of doing business and interacting with the Victorian government. We bring important day-to-day services together in one department to make things easy and seamless for Victorians and businesses. We are doing this by connecting and digitising our systems and platforms across state and local government as well as streamlining our corporate and procurement services.

**About the role**
- As an Engineering Manager, you will provide strong leadership and technical skills. It has been created in response to a significant increase in workload and team size due to a 15-month digital program of work that will increase the size of the Engineering team by several dozen people (both VPS employees and vendor resources). You will be leading and managing multiple software engineering teams to ensure the successful delivery of high-quality projects and solutions.
- For specific responsibilities please review the attached position description. This is a 15 months fixed term role, based out of our Footscray office with hybrid and flexible working options.
- This position is only open to applicants with relevant rights to work in Australia.

**Key Accountabilities**
- Robust experience managing multiple delivery teams.
- Excellent ability to plan and collaborate to deliver projects through others.
- Strong technical expertise. Your tribe's stack is mostly AWS using Node.js, serverless technology (e.g., AWS Lambdas), React, MuleSoft, and Datadog, with some Java and Sitecore; other tribes also have Salesforce, Drupal CMS, and native mobile.
- Experience working in hybrid Agile environments. (We use a mix of Agile, Waterfall, and SAFe practices..
- Planning, recruiting, and onboarding new engineering delivery teams.
- Mentoring and supporting deliver leads, principal QEs, and other senior technical roles to build leadership capability and succession planning.

**How to apply**
- a resume; and
- a cover letter which addresses the key selection criteria (within three pages)

**Other relevant information**
- The department is committed to providing and maintaining a working environment which is safe and without risk to the health of its employees and clients and consistent with the department's obligations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (OH&S Act), to support this DGS has a COVID-19 Vaccination policy which **strongly recommends** all DGS employees be fully vaccinated.

- Applications close Tuesday 12 August 2025 at 11.59pm

Posted
- 29 July 2025

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