Senior Engineering Manager — AI-First Cloud Platform

DXC Technology Australia & New Zealand; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

DXC University

Employee referral rewards

Flexible leave options

Volunteer days

Employee Assistance Program

Novated leasing

Discounted health insurance

Paid parental leave

Job summary

DXC Technology Australia & New Zealand is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to translate architectural vision into shipping software on a cloud-native, AI-first platform. You will lead 5–10 engineers, perform technical reviews, mentor staff and own delivery planning with the Technical Project Manager.

In this hands-on leadership role you’ll stay in the trenches, drive quality, guardrails and reliability, and partner with architects to balance speed and architectural integrity in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience and 3+ years leading engineering teams in production environments.
• Strong track record turning technical direction into executable reality.
• Deep knowledge of microservices, cloud-native design patterns and API-first development.
• Experience with Python, GraphQL, REST APIs, SQL and modern toolchains.
• CI/CD, Docker/Kubernetes, infrastructure as code and DevSecOps practices.
• Production experience on AWS or comparable cloud infrastructure in multi-tenant SaaS.
• Comfortable running agile delivery with Jira or similar tools.

Responsibilities

• Translate the Chief Architect's vision into shipped, production-ready code.
• Lead a team of 5–10 engineers daily, including 1:1s, growth plans and hiring.
• Perform complex code reviews, mentor engineers and ensure architectural guardrails.
• Collaborate with TPM on sprint planning, capacity, estimates and delivery tracking.
• Own engineering execution quality, testing, observability and incident readiness.
• Drive platform reliability across uptime, performance and security.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

DXC Technology Australia & New Zealand is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to translate architectural vision into shipping software on a cloud-native, AI-first platform. You will lead 5–10 engineers, perform technical reviews, mentor staff and own delivery planning with the Technical Project Manager.

In this hands-on leadership role you’ll stay in the trenches, drive quality, guardrails and reliability, and partner with architects to balance speed and architectural integrity in a fast-paced