Senior Software Engineering Discipline Lead

Electro Optic Systems; City of Hume; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Electro Optic Systems is seeking an experienced software engineering leader to drive governance, standards, and delivery across multiple projects and sustainment activities. You will manage the software resource pool, enforce quality benchmarks, and shape training and recruitment for the software discipline.

The role requires 10+ years in software engineering with leadership experience, cross-site collaboration, and familiarity with safety-critical standards.

Qualifications

• Degree in software engineering or related field is required.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience with leadership experience.
• Experience across the product lifecycle in an engineering environment.
• Experience managing geographically distributed engineering teams.
• Familiarity with safety-critical software standards (e.g., DO-178C) or secure systems development desirable.

Responsibilities

• Define, mandate, and enforce software engineering processes, standards, and frameworks across teams.
• Lead software resource planning and arbitration across projects, products, and sustainment.
• Establish software verification, validation and QA practices for governance.
• Establish, monitor and enforce software quality metrics (defect density, test coverage, code quality).
• Conduct or delegate architecture and code reviews to ensure compliance with standards.
• Maintain visibility of software technical debt and develop remediation strategies.

Skills

Leadership

Software engineering

Resource arbitration

Governance

Education

Degree in Software Engineering or related field

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Code reviews

Job description

Electro Optic Systems is seeking an experienced software engineering leader to drive governance, standards, and delivery across multiple projects and sustainment activities. You will manage the software resource pool, enforce quality benchmarks, and shape training and recruitment for the software discipline.

The role requires 10+ years in software engineering with leadership experience, cross-site collaboration, and familiarity with safety-critical standards.