Engineering Enablement & Automation Lead

Talent Corp; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 245,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary up to AU$280k+

Discretionary bonus 20% target

Hybrid work: 3 days in Sydney, 2 days

Job summary

Talent Corp seeks a strategic Head of Engineering Enablement & Automation to lead a cross-functional team in Sydney. You will drive engineering enablement across QA, DevOps, release management, environments, and tooling, guiding change and identifying AI-driven automation opportunities.

You will mentor a team of six direct reports within a broader group of ~11, shaping standards, testing approaches and delivery confidence across complex enterprise programs in Australia.

Qualifications

• Around 10 years' experience across technology delivery, quality engineering, automation or release management within complex enterprise environments.
• Proven people leadership, with the ability to motivate teams, influence stakeholders and guide organisational change.
• Experience establishing and improving engineering practices across testing, quality assurance, DevOps and delivery.
• Strong technical understanding of test automation, CI/CD, release processes, environments and observability.
• Experience managing vendors and outsourced technology partners.
• Exposure to AI enabled software development, Microsoft Copilot, AI agents and Jira/Atlassian tooling would be advantageous. Experience in regulated environments is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Coach and develop a specialist team, building a positive, collaborative and solutions focused culture.
• Establish engineering standards, reusable frameworks and consistent ways of working.
• Strengthen testing, quality assurance and test automation to improve delivery confidence.
• Oversee release, deployment and environment management to support safe, reliable change.
• Improve engineering tooling, observability and DevOps practices, identifying opportunities to reduce manual effort.
• Build strong relationships with business stakeholders, technology leaders and external vendors.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Test automation

CI/CD

Release management

Observability

DevOps practices

Stakeholder management

AI in software

Tools

Jira

Atlassian tooling

Job description

Talent Corp seeks a strategic Head of Engineering Enablement & Automation to lead a cross-functional team in Sydney. You will drive engineering enablement across QA, DevOps, release management, environments, and tooling, guiding change and identifying AI-driven automation opportunities.

You will mentor a team of six direct reports within a broader group of ~11, shaping standards, testing approaches and delivery confidence across complex enterprise programs in Australia.