Software Engineering Manager — Hybrid, Azure & DevOps Lead

Grant Thornton; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible and hybrid working

Professional development

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Collaborative team culture

Job summary

Grant Thornton Australia is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead the custom applications and integrations that support our business. You will set the team’s technical direction, drive engineering standards across DevOps and cloud, and manage delivery with a hands‑on leadership style.

You’ll guide design decisions, strengthen DevOps practices, and ensure secure, reliable, and maintainable digital solutions while operating in a hybrid work environment with a people‑first culture.

Qualifications

• Leading software development teams and taking accountability for delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical design for applications, APIs, integrations and data access.
• Translate business needs into technical options balancing delivery, cost, risk, and maintainability.
• Plan engineering delivery, capacity, dependencies, and risk visibility.
• Own the software development lifecycle including code review, tests, QA and releases.
• Oversee Azure application security, reliability, performance, cost, CI/CD, IaC and observability.
• Lead, coach and develop the engineering team and participate in design reviews.

Skills

Team leadership

Python

FastAPI

Django

API design

SQL

JavaScript frameworks

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Bicep

CI/CD

Containerisation

Observability

Azure

Tools

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Bicep

Job description

Grant Thornton Australia is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead the custom applications and integrations that support our business. You will set the team’s technical direction, drive engineering standards across DevOps and cloud, and manage delivery with a hands‑on leadership style.

You’ll guide design decisions, strengthen DevOps practices, and ensure secure, reliable, and maintainable digital solutions while operating in a hybrid work environment with a people‑first culture.