Lead Consultant/Tech Lead

If your client gave you free-range to pick your tech stack, what would you do with it? What would you do if you had a new challenge every day? How would you feel if you could impact people's lives through tech?

Established over eighteen years ago, we are a growing Melbourne-based Software Consultancy with a core focus of delivering business-critical digital products to our clients. Our teams work alongside our customers to dissect their complex problems and convert them into value-driven solutions, combining innovative principles in development, design, analysis and quality automation. We utilise Design Thinking and Agile practices to rapidly create customer and business first software, testing and embracing new technologies and trends along the way.

Our Lead Developers become trusted advisors to our clients, working alongside senior client stakeholders to ensure delivery and technical excellence. As a Fabric Lead Developer, you will lead by example and work hands-on alongside your teammates on delivery - as well as providing high-level guidance and advice to our customers.

Key Responsibilities
Technology Strategy and Solution Design

• Lead software development projects by driving end-to-end delivery, including client collaboration, ideation, discovery, development, deployment, and ongoing support within defined project scopes.
• Contribute and provide technical advisory and consulting during presales and project evaluation, recommending the best technologies, creating high-level solution designs, and identifying risks and dependencies.
• Design and deliver technical solutions tailored to client requirements, ensuring alignment with project constraints and delivery goals.
• Actively drive technical discussions within discovery workshops, ensuring alignment with best practices and client requirements

Technical Leadership and Delivery

• Be hands-on with development practices, including pairing with team members to foster collaboration and quality.
• Implement continuous delivery practices to accelerate the delivery of functionality to end users.
• Apply advanced testing methodologies to ensure high-quality software and mitigate future risks.
• Guide technical decision-making and advocate for best practices that align with client goals and industry standards.

Client Relationship Management

• Build strong, trust-based relationships with senior client stakeholders, acting as an advisor and advocate for technology excellence.
• Collaborate with clients to guide technical decisions and advocate for practices that align with project goals and constraints.

Team Leadership and Mentorship

• Mentor and coach less experienced software engineers within the Fabric team and client organisations
• Lead by example to foster a collaborative and growth-oriented team culture.
• Host tech meetups and community events, sharing your expertise to strengthen both internal teams and the wider tech community.

Business Development and Thought Leadership

• Support presales activities by advising on technical solutions, providing high-level project sizing, and creating compelling proposals.
• Create thought leadership content relevant to your role, contributing to social media campaigns, blogs, and presentations.
• Represent Fabric at meetups, conferences, and other professional forums to elevate our brand and technical credibility.

Brand Ownership

• Represent Fabric by promoting our values and advocating for our software development practices, ensuring solutions are built with quality and purpose.
• Support recruitment efforts by participating in interviews and evaluations based on project and organisational needs.

About You

• Being an expert in one or more coding languages (Java/Kotlin, Python, Spring Boot, .Net, , C#, React, CSS, Javascript, Typescript, SQL, etc.) and being comfortable with learning a new language/technology required for a new client project
• Having experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices
• Applying test-driven development practices (TDD) to your work
• Working knowledge of one of the cloud technologies such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform or Azure, etc.
• Working knowledge of docker, terraform. Experience with kubernetes would be an advantage
• Being comfortable with one of the agile methodologies for organising their work
• Being flexible and ready to wear multiple hats during the project lifecycle
• Experience with API Gateway products like Kong would be a bonus

Your key benefits of being a part of the Fabric team:

• A variety of business domains to dive into including retail, finance, construction and logistics
• Creating innovative custom products to solve complex problems that existing solutions just can't
• Collaborating with a team of top notch professionals who are obsessed with value, latest tech and the right way to build a digital product
• Ability to switch projects every 6-12 months to keep you challenged, excited and growing
• Strong support network from the delivery community of practice, leadership and our tech teams to help you address any client challenges you may face
• Very diverse and inclusive environment where people value feedback, connections and collaboration in a workspace
• Great office in CBD with all the amenities (yet you're welcome to work remotely on most days), fun team events, lunches and celebrations

We bring together great talent and the best technology to unleash the full potential of our staff, customers and partners. Founded over eighteen years ago, Fabric has become the only software consultancy that focuses on value. We're a diverse and inclusive company that encourages passion, courage and innovation in all that we do.