Job Description: Job no: 503838 Work type: Ongoing Full Time Location: Various Categories: IT/Technology About the ABC: The ABC is the nation's most trusted and independent source of Australian conversations, culture, and stories. With over 4,000 employees from diverse backgrounds across over 50 locations around Australia and overseas, we are proud to create, curate and deliver high-quality content that informs, educates and entertains Australian communities. About the Role: Working with the Senior Engineering Manager you will lead, manage, and grow a team of software engineers to build and maintain the platform used within Digital to deliver both on demand and live streaming audio and video. You will be responsible for devising and leading the media delivery platform strategy, implementation and support for Digital Product. Key Accountabilities: Leadership Lead a technical team in the identification, prioritisation, and implementation of features for the platforms and application used to prepare and deliver audio and video for streaming and on demand consumption in digital products. Provide direction and guidance to staff by developing collaborative working relationships, managing staff performance, setting goals in line with business plans and engaging in effective communications. Provide superior media delivery engineering, architecture, and leadership skills within ABC Digital Product division, to lead the continual improvement of media delivery throughout teams. Drive the adoption of modern approaches and best practices and promote a data-informed mindset across all teams. Take accountability for technical documentation, ensuring that all development work undertaken is properly documented and maintainable. Actively promote the ABC values and apply all relevant workplace policies and guidelines. Cooperate with any reasonable instruction, procedure or policy relating to safety and take reasonable care of your own safety and that of other people who may be affected by your conduct while at work. Strategy & Planning Actively participate as part of the senior management team, providing recommendations, contributing to strategy and management within the division, developing cooperative working relationships, contributing to the change process, driving initiatives, and representing the interests of the division/corporation. Contribute to divisional strategic planning processes and resources reviews. Work with executive team to understand budget position and make necessary modifications to meet overall yearly budget. Collaboration Develop and maintain effective strategic relationships with external parties including major vendors/consultants, keeping abreast of developments in the industry and regulatory environments. Foster a cross-functional team approach, collaborating with product teams including product coaches, product managers, designers, developers, devops, testers and content experts. Improve the quality of output by contributing to the development of best practices and development standards. About You: Extensive experience in managing and leading technical teams, including strategic direction for individual contributors and leadership and mentoring highly technical staff. Extensive experience running an end-to-end technology function (or portfolio) in a start-up, consultancy or digital business. Specific experience in a media environment is highly desirable. Proven track record in building and evolving software development teams that are responsible for large scale digital products, preferably in a media environment. Demonstrated experience in establishing development practices and processes within an Agile, DevOps focused environment. Proven ability to manage, liaise and influence decisions at senior executive level. Expertise with modern software development practices and an ability to research, critically appraise and evaluate new technologies and approaches. What’s in it for You? Come and join the vibrant Digital Product department in the ABC. Our mission is to enable ABC’s digital future, where ABC transitions from a traditional broadcaster to Australia’s most trusted and valued digital media organisation. Through harnessing our talents in digital, collaborating with our partners and delivering beyond expectations, we ensure the ABC not just remains relevant but thrives. As a group of product and platform teams, we develop and maintain the ABC's audience facing digital products across mobile, connected TV, desktop, and smart speakers. Whether it is staying informed of the latest breaking news, bringing some great TV on ABC iview, streaming the Hottest 100 on the triple j app and website, or entertaining the kids with our ABC Kids app - the ABC's Digital Product offerings are some of Australia's most loved and most used platforms. Your work will be appreciated by millions of audiences across Australia. We are an open and cohesive team where your voice will not get lost. You can get a sneak peek into our product engineering world through our blog: We are committed to career development and invest in our people to grow and become leaders in their fields. Everyone in the Digital Product department has a designated budget for training and development. We believe in flexible approaches to working and building self-organising and collaborative teams that offer friendly and supportive environments in which all team members can strive and grow. J-18808-Ljbffr