Employment TypePermanent

Closing Date25 Feb 2025 11:59pm

Job TitleSoftware Engineering - Chapter Lead

Job Summary

Job DescriptionWho We AreTelstra is Australia’s leading telecommunications and technology company spanning over a century with a footprint in over 20+ countries. In India, we’re building a platform for innovative delivery and engagement that will strengthen our position as an industry leader. We’ve grown quickly since our inception in 2019, now with offices in Pune, Hyderabad and Bangalore.

Focus of the Role
As a Software Engineering Chapter Lead – Senior Lead, your role is two-fold where you combine your strong expertise in Software Engineering with people leadership. Through your passion for leadership you connect, engage and develop your chapter members so they deliver value aligned to Telstra’s strategic roadmap.

What We OfferFlex appeal: choose where, when and how you workPerformance-related payAccess to thousands of learning programs so you can level-upGlobal presence across 22 countries; opportunities to work where we do business.Up to 26 weeks maternity leave provided to the birth mother with benefits for all child birthsEmployees are entitled to 12 paid holidays per calendar year              Eligible employees are entitled to 12 days of paid sick / casual leave per calendar yearRelocation support options across India, from junior to senior positions within the companyReceive insurance benefits such as medical, accidental and life insurances

What You’ll Do

As a Chapter Lead, you combine your passion for building individual and team capability with your technical expertise to do the following:Modelling a culture of collaboration and continuous learning to support development of domain and interpersonal capability within the Chapter.Coaching and developing chapter members within Software Engineering to enable them to deliver high quality and secure software solutions, providing support and feedback along the way.Building strong, trusting relationships within teams that enable a high performing team culture aligned to living our valuesProviding clarity on performance, behavioural goals and expectations to your chapter team to ensure that they can contribute to both mission and chapter activityActively maintaining a talent pipeline for the chapter to ensure that workforce strategy objectives are achieved.Managing resource allocation, including recruitment and/or selection, to ensure capability required is available and resourcing issues are mitigated, in collaboration with Group Owners.Applying commercial acumen to ensure chapter and resourcing priorities are achieved within allocated budget targets.Collaborating with Chapter Area Lead and other Chapter Leads to determine and implement tools/common practices to be used by Chapter MembersProviding clarity to chapter members on current and future capability requirements to enable them to own and drive their development so they can continually grow and add value in different ways.Using timely feedback conversations to inspire chapter member performance and the achievement of challenging goalsActing as a champion and exemplifying the ways of working mindsets and practices for all teams in which you participateIdentifying opportunities to innovate and create new software engineering practices/approaches to improve efficiency and effectiveness

About YouExperience in leading software engineering teams.Experience in guiding software engineering teams with strong software engineering best practices and demonstrated ability to advocate software engineering efficiencies when designing and developing software for applications.Experience in managing and resolving team specific issues.Strong Software engineering skills in Java Spring BootExcellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.Experience in delivering software engineering solutions.Technical knowledge of Integration Platforms, including API design / management, secure managed file transfers, enterprise services buses, extract transform and load capabilities.Experience with integration design patterns such as SOA, microservices, and event-driven architecture.Experience in creating and maintaining systems integration documentation (Interface Specs and Functional Specs)Demonstrated experience supporting multi-tiered applications in enterprise environment.Demonstrated solid knowledge of SDLC and Agile practices.Preferably, experience with use of API testing tools (eg Postman, JMeter, SoapUi)Experience in development and/or design and support of APIs.Tertiary qualifications in ICT or a related discipline preferable.Strong problem solving and analytical skills needed to support enterprise high availability Salesforce applicationsCoordinate with technical resource within and outside of TelstraMonitor process of software configuration/development/testing to assure quality deliverable.High coding standards and quality deliverablesProvide training and educate other team members around core capabilities and helps them deliver high quality solutions and deliverables/documentation
 If you are looking to take the next step in your career, we want to hear from you!
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When you join our team, you become part of a welcoming and inclusive community where everyone is respected, valued and celebrated. We actively seek individuals from various backgrounds, ethnicities, genders and abilities because we know that diversity not only strengthens our team but also enriches our work. We have zero tolerance for harassment of any kind, and we prioritise creating a workplace culture where everyone is safe and can thrive. 

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