Engineering Manager – Perpetual Digital

• More Time Off for What Matters: Enjoy up to 6 weeks of leave

• Flexible Work Environment: Work where we work best – whether in the office or from home

• Join Perpetual Corporate Trusts Innovation Company & one of Australia’s leading Institutional Fiduciary and Digital Solutions providers

Perpetual Group is an ASX-listed company (ASX:PPT) headquartered in Sydney, Australia, currently consisting of 11 leading brands across three distinct businesses: Asset Management, Wealth Management and Corporate Trust.  

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of Perpetual Corporate Trust and Perpetual Digital as an Engineering Manager.  Reporting to the Head of Engineering, we are looking for a leader with great technology expertise and a people-first approach who can also balance between product development and engineering excellence programs. 

Perpetual Digital is responsible for the design and build of software products, platform services and infrastructure across a variety of cloud technologies supporting the banking and finance industry. Perpetual Digital is Perpetual Corporate Trust’s innovation company, leveraging more than 20 years of experience and a market-leading position in Australian securitisation to deliver solutions to this sector.

If you have proven hands-on delivery experience and are looking to be part of an exciting initiative delivering a product that is used and loved by small and large financial institutions, then this role might be for you!

About the Role

• Guide and grow a talented team of software, data, tester engineers in an agile and collaborative environment (6-10 reports)

• Owning major parts of the system, designing, and delivering quality stable solutions

• Oversee the entire lean software development lifecycle, from planning and design to implementation and maintenance.

• Oversee resource allocation to ensure appropriate business and staff development goals are met.

• Collaborate with cross-functional Agile teams to define project requirements, deliverables, and timelines.

• You will be responsible for the teams’ system incidents, and make sure that the incident management process is followed.

• Hands-on: translating solution design to code and write efficient, maintainable, scalable, tested, and well-documented code that is suitable for continuous integration (1/3 of your time)

• Manage the Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines and automation processes

• Identify areas for improvement in the Lean software development process and implement strategies to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.

• Build and contribute to an Engineering culture that values delivering customer value quickly, and iteratively

• Facilitate continuous learning and professional development opportunities for team members.

• Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the engineering team and external consultants.

About you

We’re looking for someone with:

• 4+ years of experience leading Engineering team(s)

• Strong leadership and influencing skills

• Deep experience with Agile/Lean/Scrum delivery and practices

• Deep technical knowledge on ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET, C# and Entity Framework Core

• Experience working on Angular 11, Typescript, SCSS, HTML5 & CSS3

• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure, specifically ADF, App Service, API Management, Azure Functions, Service Bus, Azure SQL DB, T-SQL and PowerBI

• Hands-on experience with a variety of database management systems (SQL, NOSQL), data storage patterns, eventual consistency, data analytics, and reporting

• Demonstrated experience with TDD, unit / integration / performance end-to-end (functional) testing

• Experience with DevOps and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) operations, tooling, and practices

• Strong attention to detail with demonstrated strong problem-solving skills

• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment

• A desire to continually improve the way in which you and your team work

• Ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences both verbally and in written form

It would be great to bring, but is not required to have:

• Relevant industry certifications are desirable, especially in Scrum processes and Azure cloud technologies.

• Understanding of Microservices patterns and Databricks

• Experience in containerisation technologies such as Docker

• Knowledge of Banking, Securitisation and Financial Markets would additionally be greatly advantageous.

How we work  

Our unique culture is underpinned by our three organisational behaviours, Stretch, Own it, Make an impact which drive our approach of day-to-day interactions with colleagues and clients, the way we approach decision-making to the questions we ask and the problems we solve.

Employee benefits

• Work from anywhere in Australia for up to one month each year

• An annual allowance to empower you to prioritise your personal wellbeing

• Access to LinkedIn learning, study support and commitment to supporting professional development

Diversity and inclusion

• Strong commitment to all aspects of Diversity and Inclusion through a robust 7 pillar strategy

• A growing number of employee-led networks who work to raise awareness and drive continued change

• We support over 50 First Nations Communities, helping to secure the communities' future.  We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People

We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace where diversity is celebrated. No matter your background or circumstances, we aim to provide an environment where you can thrive.