Engineering Manager

**Summary**

looking for a hands on Engineering Manager to lead the SmartIQ Engineering team. Focused on the SmartIQ global SaaS platform, the Engineering Manager will oversee and coordinate the daily operations of highly skilled engineering staff while ensuring that company objectives and goals are met.

This position is a people manager role reporting to the Head of Product, SmartIQ.

**About Smart Communications**

**Who are you?**

We are looking for someone who is motivated by the prospect of delivering a valuable, high quality, feature-rich product. You'll be responsible for building an effective team, empowering them to achieve their goals, and putting those goals into broader context.

Your greatest responsibility will be looking after the individuals reporting to you, mentoring and supporting them in their professional development, unlocking their potential, and challenging them to step outside their comfort zone to grow and excel.

The majority of the development team are Canberra based and have been with the company for a long time due to job satisfaction, flexibility of work and company culture. You’ll have expert technical leaders to guide you through the complexity as you find where your skills provide maximum impact. This is an excellent opportunity to join a dynamic team and feel ownership of a world-class product.

You’re a buffer for the noise, calm during a storm and above all else a remover of roadblocks.

**The responsibilities of the role include**:
**Technology Leadership**
- Be responsible for delivering a platform that delights customers while managing the health of the code base through continuous refactoring and management of technical debt
- Foster a supportive environment that facilitates collaborative teamwork, professional development and encourages initiative, enthusiasm, cross-team cooperation and high-quality output
- Contribute to setting the technological roadmap and clearly and concisely communicate goals, tasks and other organisational needs to your team.
- Be an active participant in global release planning, security reviews and compliance activities such as audits.
- Model operational excellence, owning your team’s operations including code quality, code reviews, automated testing and security.
- Lead a team of engineers at various stages of their career, actively investing in their growth and development.
- Recruit, interview, hire and train new engineering staff

**Team Contribution**
- Provide coaching and leadership in software best practices and automated test strategies
- Have a passion for continuous improvement
- Be an active participant in a fortnightly sprint cycle
- Deepen your experience in the technologies used by the team
- Comply with company policies and procedures

**What we’re looking for**:
We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and develop a team of engineers primarily based in the Canberra region but with global impact. You'll be part of the growing SmartIQ team, executing the technology roadmap and delivering value to our customers through innovative improvements to our product. You'll work closely with our design and product management teams to influence the direction of the product and plan the steps to get there.

**Must have skills/experience**:

- Experience is leading an engineering team in a technical capacity
- Familiarity with agile software development methodologies
- Operational experience with teams responsible for building SaaS solutions
- Strong organizational and communication skills

**Advantageous skills/experience**:

- Employee performance and growth management
- Continuous development and continuous delivery
- Experience in Microsoft development tools, Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code
- C#
- NET Core MVC or ASP.NET MVC
- Knowledge and experience in the SmartIQ product range or similar no code/ low code platform
- Azure DevOps/Git
- Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure

**We look for the following core competencies in everyone we hire at Smart Communications**:

- Analytical Ability - effectiveness in analysing situations and identifying key issues.
- Planning and execution - monitoring progress, taking action when necessary to rectify situations / meet deadlines.
- Proactive - taking responsibility for making things happen.
- Social Magnetism - taking actions, which show awareness of one’s own impact on others.
- Teamwork - collaborating with and promoting collaboration between different parts of the business.
- Technical expertise - keeping up to date technically within one’s own functional area.
- Adaptability - stability of performance under uncertainty and pressure.
- Communication & influence - using appropriate interpersonal styles and methods of communication to influence others positively to obtain agreement between different interests.

**What’s the deal?**
We will provide you with the tools, equipment and support to give you the best possible chance of success and over-achieving your goal