Software Development Manager

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Job Summary
The Software Development Manager – HUBconnect Licensee is responsible for leading a cross-functional delivery team consisting of software engineers, business analysts, test analysts, and a delivery manager. The role oversees the design, development, enhancement, and maintenance of the HUBconnect Licensee product and related technologies. This includes delivering high-quality software solutions aligned with business needs, managing a technical backlog for long-term sustainability, and fostering a high-performing team culture. The role plays a key part in project planning, stakeholder engagement, technical leadership, reporting, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and manage a cross-functional team including software engineers, business analysts, test analysts, and a delivery manager, ensuring team cohesion and performance.
• Conduct regular one-on-one meetings to provide feedback, track progress on individual objectives, and support career growth and professional development.
• Foster a positive, collaborative, and high-performing team culture that encourages accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Align with other Development Managers to ensure consistent practices, shared learning, and coordinated improvement initiatives across teams.
• Oversee the end-to-end delivery of software development projects, ensuring alignment with project timelines, scope, and budget.
• Collaborate with the delivery manager to prioritise tasks, manage workloads, and establish clear delivery processes and expectations.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership, guidance, and third-level support for the HUBconnect Licensee platform and associated systems.
• Maintain and manage a ranked technical backlog focused on addressing system security, resilience, maintainability, and performance.
• Ensure risks associated with technical debt or infrastructure are communicated to stakeholders and negotiate appropriate capacity allocation.
• Promote and enforce adherence to best practices in coding, documentation, testing, deployment, and overall software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Ensure consistency and shared approaches to development with other HUBconnect technology teams.
• Engage regularly with business stakeholders to gather and refine requirements, translating them into functional and technical deliverables.
• Enable the delivery manager to communicate effectively with stakeholders about progress, issues, risks, and resolutions.
• Ensure alignment between business goals and technical solutions, maintaining a balance between immediate needs and long-term product health.
• Collaborate with the Portfolio Management & Business Reporting team to track work efforts and time spent using tools like Azure DevOps (ADO), 7pace, and Tiger.
• Ensure development items and time tracking comply with agreed guidelines and governance structures.
• Maintain a clear, up-to-date roadmap of technical initiatives and ensure it is aligned with the overall Product & Technology strategy.
• Provide high-quality monthly reports to the line manager summarising delivery progress, team achievements and challenges, risks, and key metrics.
• Identify opportunities to optimise processes and implement best practices to enhance development efficiency and output quality.
• Promote a culture of continuous learning, skill development, and knowledge sharing within the team to support succession planning and reduce key-person risk.
• Implement robust quality assurance measures, including automated testing where feasible, to ensure reliable and high-performing software delivery.
• Work with test analysts to design and maintain effective test plans, adopting "shift left" testing strategies to identify issues earlier in the development cycle.
• Champion innovation and continuous improvement across all aspects of software development and team operations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven experience in a software development leadership role, managing and mentoring cross-functional teams.

• Minimum of 10 years of hands-on technical experience with the following technologies:

• .NET Framework

• SQL Server
• SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services)
• Power BI
• Microsoft Windows Server

• Internet Information Services (IIS)

• Strong project management skills, with demonstrated experience in agile methodologies and practices.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a proactive and solution-oriented mindset.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage effectively with both technical teams and business stakeholders.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, and competing demands in a dynamic environment.
• Strong understanding of business processes, with the ability to align technical solutions to meet both business and customer needs.

The Recruitment Process

• Acknowledgement email once your application has been submitted.
• Our Talent team will start reviewing your application. If unsuccessful, you will be notified.
• If your application progresses to the next stage, our Talent team will be in touch to discuss your alignment with the role.
• If you're a person with an impairment or disability, this is an opportunity to share with us any accessibility requirements that you may have for the role.
• Should you require any accommodations to the recruitment process, please email , and one of our team will contact you.
• Interviews can happen virtually or face-to-face with the hiring manager or other members of the broader team. Depending on the role, there may be more than two interviews.
• Communication of outcomes to successful and unsuccessful candidates and feedback provided.
• As part of our process, a police check will be conducted on all successful candidates*. Further details on our HUB24 Group Recruitment Privacy Collection notice can be found here.

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We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where diverse perspectives are valued and every individual is treated with respect. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disabilities, people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities, and people of all gender identities and sexual orientations. If you require adjustments to the recruitment process or have accessibility requirements, please let us know – we're here to support you