Sydney CBD

• 5+ years leading technical development within digital product/agile teams
• 3+ years leading multi-disciplined software development engineering teams
• Fixed term 12 Months |Hybrid working |Baseline salary of $ 149,739 base.

About the Role

The Technical Lead is responsible for all technical aspects of product development, guiding the engineering team, setting technical standards, ensuring the product is built using best practices, and that the technical solutions are able to deliver the expected value. The Technical Lead works alongside the Product Manager and Product Designer to ensure all product requirements are understood, documented and incorporated including customer, business and technical needs, providing technical insights, & contributing to the development of the product feature roadmap assessment of product features.

Benefits

• A corporate wellbeing program with subsidised gym membership, free flu vaccinations and health check programs
• 17.5% annual leave loading
• Comprehensive learning and development support aligned to icare’s Core Capabilities.
• Our People Awards - On-the-spot Recognition, Quarterly Values Awards & Our People Annual Awards
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program

Duties

It’s an exciting time at icare where no two days are the same; as a Product Technical Lead you will:

• Works closely with the product manager and product designers to develop the product vision, ensuring feasibility and alignment to the technical capabilities of the product team
• Translates the prioritised initiatives into a detailed technical roadmap to guide the engineering team in prioritising their work.
• Leads engineering team while serving as the connection to non-technical roles to ensure alignment between technical and business objectives. Provides clear and realistic updates on technical progress and timelines
• Leads engineers and other technical roles with coaching and professional development to deliver high quality and compliant products in an efficient manner
• Documents technical requirements and ensure user stories have the right level of technical detail for engineers to built the desired solution
• Guides product development from an engineering standpoint through to deployment. Collaborate with release teams to launch product initiatives
• Leverages deep understanding of product vision to propose and incorporate innovative technical solutions.  Collaborates with Engineering Practices to ensure engineering practices evolve to support the product’s future direction.
• Contributes to concept design / Wireframe, proof of concepts, OKR development, scorecard
• Responsible for pilot design, scope and build and initiative development
• Estimate development effort, meet deadlines, deliver high-quality code, and respond to user support requests.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of support strategies, operational standard procedures, performance strategies, and configuration practices and processes to support consistency of practice
• Balance competing customer, business and technical demands to ensure agreed deliverables are achieved given the complexity, size and scale of an environment which continually challenges the technical capability boundaries
• Working collaboratively with platform, release teams and other specialists to achieve the best/most efficient outcome while effectively driving change within the Organisation

Skills & Experience

• 5+ years leading technical development within digital product and / or agile teams.
• 5+ working in digital solution design
• 3+ years leading multi-disciplined software development engineering teams
• Good Exposure to Cloud platforms such as AWS including knowledge on cloud architecture on Serverless and Containerisation solutions.
• Relevant Product and Agile qualifications / accreditations and training
• Leading technical development in product teams
• Solution Design
• Product Engineering
• Digital & Product strategy

Culture

We know our strength comes from the diversity of our people and would encourage people with different experiences and backgrounds to apply. We are committed to our people’s development so the people of NSW can thrive.

About the Company

Our purpose is to care for the people of New South Wales, building confidence and trust so our communities can thrive. As NSW’s agency of insurance and care, in the past year we insured 338,000 businesses, covering four million workers and supporting 92,000 workers with injuries. We cared for over 1,800 people severely injured on our roads and supported more than 5,450 impacted by a dust disease. We helped 775 homeowners, insuring $20.9 billion in residential projects, and continue to protect $436 billion in NSW Government assets including iconic landmarks the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House. icare continues to refine and transform how we deliver services to improve experiences for those we serve.

• For more information about icare visit our website
• icare operates a direct sourcing model so no agency introductions will be accepted
• We are a Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant
• A talent pool may be created through this recruitment process.

If you are an employee of icare please apply via Hugo to submit your application. We want to support you with the next step in your career.

Please note that you must be an Australian citizen, permanent resident of Australia, New Zealand citizen with a current New Zealand passport or have unrestricted working rights to apply for this role.