Global Software Engineering Manager — Lead & Innovate

Rocket Software; Perth; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Rocket Software in Perth, Australia is seeking a Senior Manager, Software Engineering to lead a global team of engineers responsible for delivering world-class software solutions. You will guide design, development, and testing while aligning with strategic product goals.

The role emphasizes coaching, cross-geo collaboration, and driving Agile practices to meet customer needs and industry leadership. This is a full-time position based in Perth.

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years of experience managing a team of technical engineers.
• Experienced in Mainframe Technologies.
• Customer advocacy with a focus on understanding customer needs, fostering trusted relationships, and delivering customer centric solutions.
• Proven track record of synthesizing multiple internal and external sources of input into product requirements.
• Strong leadership skills and experience successfully leading a globally dispersed team.
• Experience in Agile development methodologies.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills to deal professionally and collaboratively with all levels of the organization and across geographies.

Responsibilities

• Engage with executive level leadership to accomplish strategic product development and quality goals.
• Inspires a culture of innovation within the team, ensuring our leadership in the industry.
• Leading and setting direction for design and implementation of software features/functionality, testing, correction of defects and/or creation of new products.
• Responsible for leading the development and quality assurance teams to review customer requirements, holding design meetings, conduct peer code reviews, and ensuring the team is delivering the correct requirements.
• Coaching and mentoring team members of all skill levels to perform optimally.
• Building out the development and testing teams in the region and will be required to onboard your team and assist in training your new team members.
• Ensure that bug fixes are released in a timely manner and that the development team is responsive to the global technical support team.
• Implementing corporate policies regarding product development processes, standards and automation, and will ensure the development team is adhering to those standards to operate efficiently.
• Will be highly organized and detail-oriented, and you must track the activity of all global developer and test staff members to ensure not only that customer expectations are met, but also to plan for future innovation.
• Collaborate with other Rocketeers across geographies and technologies to ensure Rocket remains the leader in the industry.

Skills

Leadership

Agile methodologies

Communication

Customer advocacy

Global team leadership

Product requirements

Executive collaboration

Tools

Mainframe Technologies

Job description

Rocket Software in Perth, Australia is seeking a Senior Manager, Software Engineering to lead a global team of engineers responsible for delivering world-class software solutions. You will guide design, development, and testing while aligning with strategic product goals.

The role emphasizes coaching, cross-geo collaboration, and driving Agile practices to meet customer needs and industry leadership. This is a full-time position based in Perth.