Engineering Manager, IAM & Digital Identity Platforms

SustainRecruit; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Unknown company in Sydney is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead software teams focused on customer identity, authentication and access management platforms. The role combines hands-on software development experience with people leadership and modern engineering delivery practices.

You will coach teams, align with architects and product partners, and drive CI/CD, observability and production reliability across cloud-based services. Strong backend expertise and security awareness are essential.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering background with progression into leadership.
• Experience managing software teams in complex enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of backend APIs, microservices and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop high-performing software engineering teams.
• Oversee identity, authentication and API platform evolution.
• Drive delivery across backend services and cloud-based applications.
• Collaborate with architects, security, and product teams to shape solutions.
• Establish CI/CD, testing, observability and reliability practices.
• Set priorities, capability and delivery outcomes.
• Foster technical excellence and continuous improvement.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Team management

Stakeholder management

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

.NET

Python

Job description

Unknown company in Sydney is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead software teams focused on customer identity, authentication and access management platforms. The role combines hands-on software development experience with people leadership and modern engineering delivery practices.

You will coach teams, align with architects and product partners, and drive CI/CD, observability and production reliability across cloud-based services. Strong backend expertise and security awareness are essential.