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ABOUT THE JOB

As an Engineer Manager, you will be accountable for the leadership of one or more engineering scrum teams to plan, deliver and support service features that deliver customer value and/or mature service capability. The position is also accountable for executing the people leader fundamentals in line with NAB Policies, driving a learning-based culture with an ability to set and gain agreement for realistic and stretching objectives for the team.

You'll lead the effort to translate existing legacy microservices into a cohesive architecture, developing a detailed plan to transition them seamlessly while aligning and contributing to NAB Microservices Taxonomy.

Your role extends to guiding project teams in developing business features within the appropriate microservices, thereby preventing the proliferation of unnecessary services, and promoting architectural consistency across the organisation.

Additionally, you'll oversee the entire microservices development lifecycle, ensuring technical excellence from design to deployment, and providing guidance on how multiple services can form a single microservice that aligns with a specific business capability.

YOUR JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage Agile teams to deliver on engineering standards, sprint backlogs, and plans, engineers’ responsibilities and performance management, code quality, adherence to development, and testing guardrails.
• Manage milestones, deliverables, risks, and dependencies of the engineering teams.
• Line management (1:1 meeting, personal development & training plan, career path, probation reviews, and performance reviews).
• Educate the engineering teams and ensure the release of features to production comply with NAB risk management frameworks. Ability to create and maintain relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Mentor and Coach Resources: You'll leverage your expertise to mentor and coach senior resources, helping them to enhance their skills and navigate complex architectural challenges. This involves providing guidance on best practices, facilitating knowledge sharing sessions, and fostering a culture of continuous learning within the organisation.
• Prioritise Customer and Colleague Needs: You'll demonstrate a strong commitment to customer and colleague satisfaction by prioritising their needs in every decision-making process. This includes actively seeking feedback, soliciting input from stakeholders, and advocating for solutions that deliver tangible value to end-users.
• Design and Implement Microservices Architecture: You'll leverage your deep understanding of domain-driven design principles to architect a scalable and maintainable microservices ecosystem. This involves identifying bounded contexts within the business domain and structuring microservices around them to ensure loose coupling and high cohesion.
• Develop Translation Plan for Legacy Microservices: You'll lead the effort to modernise legacy microservices by developing a comprehensive plan that outlines the steps needed to transition them into well-defined microservices. This includes assessing existing services, identifying dependencies, and strategizing the migration process to minimise disruption to ongoing projects.
• Guide Project Teams in Microservices Development: Working closely with project teams, you'll provide guidance and direction on how to develop business features within the appropriate microservices. This entails understanding the business requirements, aligning them with existing microservices, and advocating for the reuse of existing components to foster consistency and reduce redundancy.
• Oversee Microservices Development Lifecycle: You'll be responsible for overseeing the entire microservices development lifecycle, from design and development to testing and deployment. This involves ensuring that best practices are followed at each stage, addressing technical challenges, and fostering collaboration between cross-functional teams.
• Design APIs and Integration Patterns: With a strong understanding of API design principles and integration patterns, you'll design APIs that are aligned with resource-oriented architecture and promote interoperability between microservices. You'll also implement integration patterns such as REST API, event-driven architecture, and queueing patterns to facilitate communication between services.
• Manage Stakeholders and Ensure Alignment: You'll actively manage stakeholders, including senior leadership, RTEs, architects and development teams, to ensure alignment with the target state architecture. This involves communicating the rationale behind architectural decisions, quantifying deviations from the target architecture, and mitigating risks to project delivery.
• Apply Governance Techniques: Drawing on previous experience with governance techniques, you'll make decisions that are aligned with enterprise principles and architectural and engineering design standards. This includes establishing policies, procedures, and guidelines for microservices development, APIs and Events as well as enforcing compliance through automation, regular audits and reviews.
• Automate Governance Processes: With a focus on efficiency and scalability, you'll automate governance processes by creating enterprise reusable pattern libraries and integrating them with build pipelines. This ensures that integration standards are enforced consistently across projects, reducing manual effort, and improving overall productivity.

YOUR SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

Technical skills:

• 10+ years working experience in Software Development; 5+ years experience in leading cross-functional Agile teams.
• Strong stakeholder management experience.
• Proven people leadership, team building, motivation, and coaching skills.
• Proficiency in Java Springboot microservices: Mastery of Java and Spring Boot framework to develop scalable and resilient microservices.
• Experience with cloud technologies like AWS and Azure: Familiarity with cloud platforms and services for deploying and managing microservices in a cloud-native environment.
• Familiarity with build pipelines including Harness: Understanding of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for automating software delivery.
• Knowledge of API specification and spectral rules: Proficiency in defining API specifications and enforcing API design rules using spectral.
• Expertise in data modelling and integration schema design: Ability to design data models and schemas that support the requirements of microservices and ensure data consistency and integrity.
• Robust understanding of integration security best practices, including OAuth and OpenAPI Specification: Knowledge of security protocols and standards for securing microservices communication and data exchange.
• Experience with integration error handling and resilience engineering: Proficiency in implementing error handling mechanisms and designing resilient microservices architectures to ensure fault tolerance and reliability.
• Knowledge of Node.js is a plus: Familiarity with Node.js for developing lightweight and scalable microservices, though not mandatory.
  
  

Soft skills:

• Excellent stakeholder communication skills: Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels and translate technical concepts into business terms.
• Ability to take a data-driven approach to decision-making: Capacity to analyse data and metrics to inform architectural decisions and prioritise initiatives based on their impact.
• Strong relationship-building and influencing abilities: Skill in building positive relationships with colleagues and stakeholders and influencing them towards architectural best practices.
• Exceptional written communication skills: Proficiency in articulating ideas and concepts clearly and concisely through written documentation and presentations.

THE BENEFITS AND PERKS