Senior Engineering Manager

DXC TechnologyGeelongOn-siteFull-time1 week ago

DXC Technology is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team of 5–10 engineers on a cloud-native, AI-first platform. The role requires hands-on technical leadership, translating architectural vision into production-ready code, and owning engineering execution quality. Requires 8+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years leading engineering teams.

What you'll do

Translate the Chief Architect’s vision into shipped, production-ready code
Lead a team of 5–10 engineers day-to-day, including 1:1s, growth plans, performance conversations, hiring and team development
Stay hands-on — lead complex code reviews, pair on tough debugging, surface issues early and make sound tactical decisions within architectural guardrails
Mentor engineers at all levels
Partner with the Technical Project Manager on sprint planning, capacity, estimates and delivery tracking
Own engineering execution quality, including code review standards, architectural pattern adherence, testing, observability and operational readiness
Make tactical technical decisions on implementation approaches, libraries and refactoring, while knowing when to escalate
Drive platform reliability across uptime, performance, security, incident response and post-mortems
Build a culture of engineering craftsmanship

What you need

Must-have

PythonGraphQLREST APIsSQLCI/CDDockerKubernetesInfrastructure as Code

Nice-to-have

IstioService meshFederated GraphQLAI/ML platformsAgentic workflowsLLM-based product featuresObservabilityMonitoring

Soft skills

CommunicationMentoringLeadershipAccountabilityDetail-orientedTransparent communicationPartnershipCalm under pressureBias for action

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