Technical Delivery Lead

Posted: 25/09/2025

Closing Date: 08/10/2025

Job Type: Fixed Term Contract

Location: Melbourne

Job Category: IT

**About the RACP**
The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) connects, represents, and trains physicians and trainee physicians across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. The RACP provides services to support the delivery of training, continuing professional development, and health policy and advocacy to medical health professionals.

**Our Values**
Accountable | Collaborate | Indigenise and Decolonise | Lead the way | Respect

**Why Join Us?**

**Our 3-2-1 Hybrid Working Model**
- 3 days from anywhere in Australia or Aotearoa New Zealand per week,
- 2 days from an RACP office location per week
- 1 of the two days per week in office spent with your team.

The RACP is undertaking a significant transformation program which is designed to enhance member value, modernise core systems, and build the digital and data capabilities needed to thrive in a changing health and education landscape. The Program's key goals are to significantly improve member satisfaction, employee experience, and reduce cost to serve.

The Technical Delivery Lead sits within the member experience workstream within the program and combines day-to-day technical expertise and oversight of developers and other technical team members with delivery leadership. The role provides hands on oversight of the digital experience engineering team and partners with the Program Manager to drive high quality and on-time delivery. You be leading a team of 4-6 direct reports.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Provide hands-on and day-to-day technical leadership in solution design, code reviews etc. and ensure processes are in place support quality solution delivery.
- Oversee engineering practices and DevOps, including CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.
- Critically assess the team’s suggestions, approaches and estimates providing effective decision-making and guidance where appropriate.
- Champion continuous improvement and best in class software engineering processes, both at a technical and process level
- Collaborate with developers, leads, architects, project managers, BAs, designers and project managers to define, architect, and build new features as per the prioritised backlog and roadmap.
- Partner with product owners, business, analysts and designers to refine backlog items with clear technical acceptance criteria.
- Constant collaboration with the Core Systems (“back-of-house" systems) stream to ensure optimal and aligned solution delivery and management of dependencies.
- Partner with the program manager to own delivery plans, ensuring milestones, risks, and dependencies are effectively tracked and managed.
- Co-ordinate and monitor day-to-day delivery ensuring that escalations to the program manager take place as appropriate.

**This role will begin in January 2026 and we are commencing the interview process now.**

**Desired Skills and Experience**:
In order to be considered for this role we are requiring the following skills and experience:
**Essential**
- 5+ years experience as a Technical Delivery Lead, Technical Lead or similar
- Detailed and comprehensive technical experience from a front-end or full-stack development background, or strong equivalent familiarity with front-end development technologies, including experience delivering enterprise headless solutions using HTML, CSS, Javascript, ReactJS, NextJS, NPM, CSS preprocessors, etc.
- Working experience with enterprise software platforms (including Optimizely) and other headless platforms, as well as supporting systems, tools and processes.
- Experience delivering digital experiences involving multiple system integrations (e.g., CRM, identity management, payment gateways, APIs)
- Proven track record as a technical leader leading cross-functional Agile development teams to deliver enterprise-scale digital platforms with a mix of technical leadership and delivery management.
- Detailed understanding of the web and how it works, and patterns and practices: protocols, development processes, languages, databases, debugging, web architectures, infrastructure, web servers (IIS), load balancing, testing, cloud, security, unit testing, inversion of control, repository, MVC, microservices & MACH, etc.
- Proven experience working in Agile and “hybrid” (waterfall-agile) delivery environments, overseeing a team of developers in the delivery of solutions via an iterative release process
- Strong ability to assist with managing scope, expectations, process and quality
- Excellent understanding of correct use of source control and branching strategies using Git, preferably through Azure Devops, and other fundamental development tooling
- Excellent teamwork, time management, planning and leadership skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Professional written and verbal communication and capable of interacting comfortably with stakeholders, suppliers and team me