Tech Lead – Bigw Jobs

This role is fundamental to fulfilling Big W’s strategic ambition to become a purpose-led digital retailer enabled by a great store network. With rapidly growing online sales, we are accelerating the evolution of our Digital business, including the transformation of our eCommerce platform into a set of modern, resilient and high performing services.
As the Engineering Chapter Lead, you will be responsible for the capacity, capability, performance and well-being of your Chapter members. In addition to these dimensions of the role that may be supporting multiple squads, you will also be a Tech-Lead within a specific squad. The Tech-Lead dimension of the role will be responsible for the quality and speed with which enabling technology is delivered and supported.

What you’ll do:

• Providing performance feedback and coaching relative to these targets – maximising the potential of people and managing any improvement plans
• Defining personal development plans with Chapter members and ensuring that these are effectively enabled
• Ensuring that the available capability and capacity is optimally assigned to squads
• Collaborate with other Tech Leads, Technology Delivery Managers, the Engineering Practice Manager and Solution Architects to help create and maintain a robust architectural framework and Roadmap.
• Maximising value achieved through Chapter time
• Establishing and facilitating Chapter ceremonies and regular Chapter time
• Ensuring the right capability and capacity exists within the chapter to support squad objectives
• Creating an environment that Chapter members love being a part of
• Ensure that the recommendations of Chapters are being applied in your squad
• Defining objectives and performance criteria for Chapter members in consultation with the relevant Tech Leads and Technology Delivery Managers
• Building a high-trust relationship with the Tech Leads and Technology Delivery Managers that Chapter Members are supporting
• Ensure the Squad is delivering maximum customer and team value
• Understanding the delivery roadmaps for the squads that are enabled by the Chapter and translating these in to a view of the capabilities and capacity that is needed
• Engaging with stakeholders and Chapter members to identify how Chapter time can deliver maximum value for Big W and the members of the Chapter
• Engage Chapter members to understand what motivates and fulfils them
• Leverage Chapter Ceremonies and the outputs from VOT to identify and implement changes that will create the best possible working environment for members
• Recruiting the best possible talent within the budget parameters set for the Chapter
• Lead technology delivery for assigned squad
• Research and apply new industry tools and technologies to improve outcomes in your assigned domain.
• Maximising performance and potential of Chapter members
• For assigned applications / services provide leadership throughout the life-cycle: concept, design, build, test, deploy, release to customers and support.
• Validating the effectiveness of Chapter time from the perspective of members and stakeholders so that continuous improvement occurs
• Champion a Lean Agile mindset to ensure a rapid, effective and efficient velocity is maintained.
• Instil a strong sense of ‘team’ and unite everyone around target outcomes whilst encouraging an inclusive and fun work environment.

What you’ll have:

• Exceptional communication & presentation skills, able to diagrammatically explain complex concepts to any audience.
• Proficient problem solving skills, with a solution-focused approach mixed with a solid sense of pragmatism.
• A dedication and a keen interest in building Clean Architecture systems which process high volumes of data and communicate via Event Driven technologies.
• Very strong experience in writing clean testable code and capability with BDD, TDD patterns & frameworks, and the drive to ensure that coverage in all areas is always as high as possible.
• A sense of tenacious curiosity driving a determination to uncover and understand every performance issue or security vulnerability that exists.
• A strong understanding of best CI/CD and GitOps practices, and exposure to a variety of tools such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, ArgoCD, Rancher Fleet, etc.
• Experience in large-scale enterprise environments that require building multiple web services and delivering outstanding performance for the end-user.
• Agile software delivery experience
• Minimum 8 or more years professional experience with relevant technologies across React Native, React, NodeJS, Kotlin, Java / .Net and IAC.
• Strong experience with Docker, Kubernetes and other containerization technology.
• A strong desire to both learn and teach, placing the highest value on the growth and distribution of knowledge amongst the Team.