Software Development Manager

Organisation/Entity: Transport For NSW- Job Category: Information & Communication Technology- Job Location: Strawberry Hills, NSW, AU, 2012- Job Ref No: 80858- Employment Type: Permanent Full-Time- Salary Range: $150887.0-$160995.0**About us**

Transport for NSW keeps our State moving by providing safe, integrated and efficient transport systems. We put our customers at the centre of everything we do - and we do a lot. We connect people, communities and industry and manage how they use our road, rail and maritime networks and services, and even active modes like walking and cycling. The work we do connects the journeys you take every day.

We are a state government organisation made up of more than 28,000 people and we're in the middle of delivering the largest transport infrastructure program in Australia's history. We work across planning, policy and procurement, harnessing data and technology to develop smarter and more adaptive transport solutions.

That means job opportunities in metropolitan and regional areas across NSW - and you have the chance to be part of creating a lasting legacy that will benefit generations to come.

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**The Division**

The Customer Strategy and Technology team within Transport leads the development of long-term, multi-modal network strategies and place plans across NSW. We leverage data and insights, implement new technologies, drive innovation and build partnerships to provide customer-centred solutions.

**The Opportunity**

Right now, we have an exciting opening for a **Software Development Manager (Hardware)** to join the Customer Strategy and Technology division in the Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System (SCATS) branch. SCATS enables cities around the world including Sydney to optimise their transport networks in real-time, managing congestion and keeping over 1 billion people moving efficiently every day, worldwide.

As a Software Development Manager in the SCATS Hardware team you will play a key role in implementing innovative technologies which will change the way traffic management works - this could involve implementing methods for cars and traffics to communicate with each other, or implementing capability for lidar detection of vehicles to optimise traffic behaviour.

Your role is to manage and guide a team of technical experts and play a key leadership role in a hardware focused software product team. You will work closely with the developers, product owner, scrum master, test lead, testers, business analysts, solution architects to develop architecturally sound solutions that are customer focused.

This position is a Permanent full time opportunity and is based at Strawberry Hills but with very flexible work options available.

**What you will be involved in**:

- Technical and People Leadership - work closely with product owners, BAs, other technical leads, solution architects and other team members. Manage a new team of developers and data engineers
- Technical Expertise - Work with the team to deliver high quality technical implementations, adding new functionality, enhancements and bug fixes to both new and legacy codebases in a secure and robust way.
- Agile Expertise - participate, and where necessary coordinate, the agile delivery of a technology focused team. Play a major role in the creation of stories, breaking them into lower level tasks and driving the agile board.
- Delivery Expertise - responsibility for technology within major project deliverables.
- Design Expertise and customer focus - Assist in design of solutions, putting yourself into the customers’ shoes.
- Working with IoT, hardware, embedded systems and low level data.
- Creation of detailed, business readable, technical documentation, to support business cases and solution designs.
- Working in a CI/CD environment.
- Perform code reviews and mentor junior developers.
- Assist in technical tool selection.

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**About you**:

- Experience in leading a team of software engineers as a manager or tech lead
- Demonstrated skill and experience delivering software solutions and projects in a large, complex organisation utilising Agile methodology
- Get excited to work with new technologies which will impact billions of road users worldwide
- Strong development experience in C++
- Experience with working in a CI/CD environment using tools such as Jenkins/Bamboo and various test automation frameworks
- Good understanding and experience of secure development practices and TDD
- Experience working in all stages of the SDLC for software projects and proven ability to contribute towards the team meeting its deadlines.
- Excellent ability to work with a team and strong communication skills

Experience in Intelligent Traffic Systems, traffic management, traffic engineering, development of real time embedded systems using ANSI C & experience working with IoT and other embedded hardware systems will be hig