Development Manager

As a Development Manager, you’ll lead software development teams to deliver impactful solutions, collaborating closely with the TA, Product Owner, and other stakeholders. You’ll drive iterative and incremental progress while managing dependencies and schedules across technical teams, ensuring smooth delivery and measurable business outcomes.

Partnering with Team Leads and your peers, you’ll identify strategic opportunities for improvement and turn them into actionable plans, fueling meaningful change across the organization.

Additionally, you’ll play a pivotal role in advancing our ambitious engineering Platform product. By transforming it into a powerful self-service tool, you’ll empower engineering, content, and operations teams to streamline their workflows and achieve more.

What You'll Do

• Manage delivery and releases in your teams
• Champion Agile development and software engineering best practices
• Own and communicate the capture of delivery metrics and work with your teams to use these to improve delivery
• Continuous improvement of the tools and processes used by the team
• Plan and communicate delivery milestones
• Lead recruitment activity for your teams
• Work with your teams using Agile principles to ensure that delivery commitments are met
• Work with other teams to deliver cross functional stories and resolve issues
• Facilitate progression of team members
• Work to retain key team members
• Keep development teams well informed

What We're Looking For

• An empathetic servant leader, who facilitates or guides the team in performing technical management activities 
• Experience in Agile, helping to keep the team focused on delivering work items and fulfilling their iteration goals and commitments that they have made to the product owner
• Facilitates team communication, empowers the team to self-organise and self-optimize their processes, ensures that the team has the resources that it needs, and removes any impediments
• Communicates clearly to various levels; developers, managers and business stakeholders
• A curious person who learns and improves their professional skills
• A lateral thinker, who can solve problems using creative reasoning
• A team collaborator who is able to take part in productive and respectful discussions with their colleagues
• Proactively seek out areas of inefficiency within the scope of the role, taking action to make continuous improvements

Company Summary

About Aristocrat

Aristocrat Leisure Limited (ASX: ALL) is a leading gaming content creation company powered by technology to deliver industry-leading casino games together with mobile games and online real money games, collectively entertaining millions of players worldwide, every day. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, Aristocrat has three operating business units, spanning regulated land-based gaming (Aristocrat Gaming), mobile games publishing (Pixel United) and regulated online real money (Aristocrat Interactive). Our team of over 8,500 people across the globe are united by our company mission to bring joy to life through the power of play.

Our Values

• All about the Player

• Talent Unleashed

• Collective Brilliance

• Good Business Good Citizen

Travel Expectations

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