Software Engineering Lead

The Lottery Corporation; City of Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Generous leave options

Learning and development platform

Inclusion & Diversity initiatives

Volunteer program with matching gifts

Job summary

The Lottery Corporation is seeking a Senior Engineering Lead in Brisbane to guide a high-performing team across Salesforce, digital signage, and backend platforms. You will drive secure, scalable solutions powering retail lottery experiences nationwide.

You will provide hands-on technical leadership in architecture, development, integrations, and automation, partnering with Product, Design, and Architecture to shape roadmaps and deliver outcomes. Embrace modern practices and AI adoption.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading software engineering teams.
• Strong architectural and technical decision-making skills.
• Experience with Salesforce and API technologies.
• Proven DevOps, CI/CD, and automated testing practices.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and deliver outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team across Salesforce, digital signage and backend platforms.
• Drive delivery of secure, scalable solutions that power retail lottery experiences nationwide.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across architecture, development, integrations and automation.
• Partner with Product, Design and Architecture to shape roadmaps and deliver business outcomes.
• Champion modern engineering practices, DevOps, AI adoption and continuous improvement.

Skills

Leadership

Salesforce knowledge

APIs

Software architecture

DevOps & CI/CD

Stakeholder management

Tools

Salesforce

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Are you ready to join the winning team at The Lottery Corporation?

We power Australia's biggest lottery games - and we're one of the world's top-performing lottery businesses.

As the home of The Lott and Keno, we're building on decades of excitement and life-changing wins, bringing our games to every state and territory except WA.

For more than a century, we've been playing our role in creating positive impacts by delivering winning moments every day to our people, our customers, retailers, partners and our community.

But we're not standing still. We're evolving into an entertainment company - more customer-obsessed, more agile and driven by real outcomes.

Because at our core, it's simple: we create winning moments - and we're building the next chapter as the team behind Where Australia Comes to Play.

Join us!

What you'll do

• Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team across Salesforce, digital signage and backend platforms.
• Drive delivery of secure, scalable solutions that power retail lottery experiences nationwide.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across architecture, development, integrations and automation.
• Partner with Product, Design and Architecture to shape roadmaps and deliver business outcomes.
• Champion modern engineering practices, DevOps, AI adoption and continuous improvement.

What you'll bring

• Proven experience leading and coaching software engineering teams in complex environments.
• Deep technical leadership experience with an understanding of Salesforce and API technologies
• Strong software architecture, solution design and technical decision-making capability.
• Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing and production support practices.
• The ability to influence stakeholders, navigate ambiguity and drive meaningful outcomes.

What you'll get

Not only will you receive an awesome candidate experience from our caring Talent team, but you'll get a genuine feel for who we are and what it's like to be part of our team.

The benefits of working with The Lottery Corporation are pretty good. Just to name a few:

• Balance work and life with our 'flex for great outcomes' approach - hybrid working, plus a range of generous leave options.
• Reward and recognition programs at all levels. Your hard work won't go unnoticed.
• Ignite your potential with our dedicated learning and development platform to support your bright future.
• We empower careers to grow from within. 50% of all roles in 2025 were filled by our own people, proving that your next opportunity is already here!
• A true sense of belonging. We're committed to Inclusion & Diversity with a range of initiatives such as our Gender Affiliation Support, employee inclusion networks and diversity memberships and celebrations.
• Make positive impacts with opportunities to volunteer with our community partners. We'll also dollar match fundraising efforts of our employees lending their support to registered charities.

We're committed to providing a safe, respectful and supportive work environment. We encourage you to let us know if we can make any accommodations, so the process can be more user friendly for you.

We acknowledge and pay respect to the traditional custodians of the lands on which our offices, retail outlets and venues operate. We acknowledge the inextricable link First Peoples of Australia have with the land past and present.

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