Software Engineering - Chapter Lead

Who We Are

Telstra is Australia’s leading telecommunications and technology company spanning over a century with a footprint in over 20+ countries. In India, we’re building a platform for innovative delivery and engagement that will strengthen our position as an industry leader. We’ve grown quickly since our inception in 2019, now with offices in Pune, Hyderabad and Bangalore.

Focus of the Role

This role is two-fold where you combine your strong expertise in Software Engineering with people leadership. Through your passion for leadership you connect, engage and develop your chapter members so they deliver value aligned to Telstra’s strategic roadmap. Through your initiative work, you act as a catalyst for the enterprise. You bring experience in the Software Engineering technical domain and work with multiple stakeholders to understand business needs, and help shape our Software Engineering strategy, solutions and capability to ensure we continuously deliver value to our customers.

What We Offer

• Flex appeal: choose where, when and how you work
• Performance-related pay
• Access to thousands of learning programs so you can level-up
• Global presence across 22 countries; opportunities to work where we do business.
• Up to 26 weeks maternity leave provided to the birth mother with benefits for all child births
• Employees are entitled to 12 paid holidays per calendar year
• Eligible employees are entitled to 12 days of paid sick / casual leave per calendar year
• Relocation support options across India, from junior to senior positions within the company
• Receive insurance benefits such as medical, accidental and life insurances

What You’ll Do

• Building strong, trusting relationships within teams that enable a high performing team culture aligned to living our values.
• Providing clarity on performance, behavioural goals and expectations to your chapter team to ensure that they can contribute to both mission and chapter activity.
• Managing resource allocation, including recruitment and/or selection, to ensure capability required is available and resourcing issues are mitigated, in collaboration with Group Owners.
• Collaborating with Chapter Area Lead and other Chapter Leads to determine and implement tools/common practices to be used by Chapter Members.
• Providing clarity to chapter members on current and future capability requirements to enable them to own and drive their development so they can continually grow and add value in different ways.
• People Development/ Management & Career development
• Performance Management including coaching/ providing difficult feedback.
• Building High performing teams with empowerment, autonomy, and alignment
• Engineering Processes, Practices & Tools ( E.g TDD, CI/CD, DevOps, etc)
• Engineering Leadership (You have a big picture focus and identify ways in which the team or the technology/solution can be improved, and you drive the resolution)
• Represent relevant teams or projects in strategic discussions, forming collaborative relationships with internal and external parties and stakeholders and managing expectations.

About You

• 12+ Yrs of overall exp
• Hands-on expertise in one or more languages Java, JavaScript & HTML/CSS
• Expert knowledge in UI Technologies like React.JS development
• Expert knowledge in Microservices architecture and REST APIs
• Hands-on development experience in AWS/PCF
• Exposure to Docker and Kubernetes concepts and components
• Experience developing in an Agile environment using CI/CD pipelines and Git
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If you want to be surrounded by top talent at a company that gives back to the community, apply now!

_When you join our team, you become part of a welcoming and inclusive community where everyone is respected, valued and celebrated. We actively seek individuals from various backgrounds, ethnicities, genders and abilities because we know that diversity not only strengthens our team but also enriches our work. We have zero tolerance for harassment of any kind, and we prioritise creating a workplace culture where everyone is safe and can thrive.

We work flexibly at Telstra. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you. When you apply, you can share your pronouns and / or any reasonable adjustments needed to take part equitably during the recruitment process._