Engineering Manager: Hybrid, Growth & Impact

Grant Thornton; Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible and hybrid working

Ongoing professional development

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Supportive and collaborative team

And many more

Job summary

Grant Thornton Australia is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead the Digital team's bespoke applications, integrations and engineering platforms. You will set technical direction, lead people, and ensure reliable delivery and security standards.

You’ll guide design decisions, strengthen DevOps practices, and help the team deliver secure, scalable digital solutions in a hybrid work environment built on collaboration and growth.

Qualifications

• Experience leading software development teams and delivering bespoke internal applications.
• Strong production experience with Python and frameworks such as FastAPI or Django.
• Experience designing and operating APIs, event-driven integrations, relational databases and SQL.
• DevOps experience across CI/CD, IaC (Terraform/Bicep), containerisation, automated testing, and monitoring and observability.
• Practical Microsoft Azure experience across application hosting, integration, identity and networking services.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical design and set practical standards for applications, APIs, integrations and data access.
• Translate business needs into technical options that balance delivery, cost, risk and maintainability.
• Plan engineering delivery, allocate capacity, manage dependencies and provide clear visibility of progress and risks.
• Own the software development lifecycle, including code review, automated testing, quality assurance and releases.
• Oversee Azure application security, reliability, performance, cost, CI/CD, infrastructure as code and observability.
• Lead, coach and develop the engineering team while remaining involved in design reviews and complex problem-solving.

Skills

People leadership

Python

FastAPI / Django

APIs & data integrations

Databases & SQL

DevOps & CI/CD

Azure cloud

Infrastructure as code

Testing & observability

Azure security / identity

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Azure DevOps

Job description

Grant Thornton Australia is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead the Digital team's bespoke applications, integrations and engineering platforms. You will set technical direction, lead people, and ensure reliable delivery and security standards.

You’ll guide design decisions, strengthen DevOps practices, and help the team deliver secure, scalable digital solutions in a hybrid work environment built on collaboration and growth.