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G'Day.We're OFX, a global provider of online, international payment services for our personal, business and partner customers. Since launching on Sydney's Northern Beaches twenty years ago, OFX has grown to become a truly global company. We're now trusted by customers all around the world and have grown to over 400 employees with offices in Sydney, London, Dublin, San Francisco, Toronto, Auckland, Singapore and Hong Kong. We are a publicly listed company, listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX: 'OFX')
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We are going through an exciting Digital Transformation journey and are looking for an innovative and self-motivated Engineering and Platform Manager for our Digital Products and Client Due Diligence domains who enjoys contributing to the success of high performing teams with a servant leadership philosophy.
Reporting to the Director of Engineering, the successfulEngineering and Platform Manager will foster an environment of curious big-picture thinkers and pragmatic problem solvers, who want tomake a difference and take ownership.
What you'll be doing:
- Set a Technical vision for the platforms/products under the delegated area
- Demonstration of strong leadership skills driving ownership and accountability within the broader team
- Ensure engineering and other practices and processes are set, evolved, and adhered to by your Delivery Teams
- Direct responsibility for recruiting engineering staff in delivery teams, and involvement in recruitment of other technology staff
- Work closely with the Product team to ensure connection between the product vision and technology
- Manage technology costs effectively including resourcing, vendors, and infrastructure
- Support and drive the delivery of business outcomes within Delivery Teams using OFX's agile delivery approach
- Management and mitigation of technology risks using proper governance
- Building effective onboarding processes for staff in the delivery team structure
- Professional development of direct reports, identifying and nurturing high performing staff while effectively managing underperforming staff
- Ensure all direct reports have clear and measurable objectives which adhere to the divisions approach and relate to team, product, and organizational metrics
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders, both Technology and other business divisions including effective ongoing communication approaches
- Ensure all product platforms are secure, reliable, and built to scale
What you bring:
Valuable Experience
- At least 3 years of leading Development Teamsinin fast paced and complex environments
- Experience integrating with third party platforms
- Experience managing technology costs effectively including resourcing, vendors, and infrastructure
- Significant experience in designing web-based, service-oriented applications and integrated back-office systems
- Strong stakeholder management experience with an excellentunderstanding of Agile development methodology and development practices such as Scrum, TDD Kanban, Lean, etc.
- Detailed knowledge of Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment and Configuration Management
- Experience in Cloudnative environments preferably AWS, open to Azure as well
- Experiencewith distributed source control systems (such as Git)
- Experience partnering with Product and Deliver
Highly Desirable
- Some experiencewith React and JavaScript
- Experience with Software as a Service (SaaS) product development
Key Attributes
- Ability to understand complex business processes and requirements
- Desire to bring innovation to the solution development process
- Ability to contribute to the success of a high performing team
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- High level of self-motivation to achieve the ultimate team and company success
- Takes commitments seriously, doesn't let others down, follows through with responsibilities
- Demonstrated ability to work independently, lead and mentor developers
- Excellent interpersonal skills, written and verbal communication, attention to detail and follow-through skills
What it's like working at OFX
We're OFXers because we want to make a difference. We see challenges as opportunities and we're not afraid to roll up our sleeves to get stuff done. We're committed to making things easier for our clients, pushing boundaries and continuing to move with the times so that we can continue to inspire confidence every day and through every transaction.
We operate as one team, cross-functionally and globally to drive outcomes that deliver excellence for our customers. We're curious self-starters who love learning and sharing our knowledge with others. We embrace change and use our initiative and resilience to overcome challenges.
Global markets move fast and so do we. We work across borders and time zones, which helps make the world feel a little smaller. From San Francisco, Toronto to London, Dublin, Sydney, Auckland, Hong Kong & Singapore, there's always a colleague to help.
- We promote an environment of reward and recognition, OFXers are encouraged to celebrate their peers' effort, technical expertise or support through a range of channels and awards.
- Giving back, we encourage OFXers to give back to causes and communities that are important to them. We celebrate this with an annual volunteer day, that OFXers can use together or individually.
- Always keep learning. Drive your own learning with LinkedIn learning, which all OFXers have access to. We offer a variety of other learning programs and host an annual Open Day to encourage cross functional and soft skill learning.
- We take pride in having a work/life balance and flexibility; we encourage employees to work productively and efficiently. Our OFXers enjoy Birthday leave to celebrate their birthday however they choose.
- Our Good Vibes employee-led committees organize events to keep our employees engaged inside and outside the office. Whether it's participating in our weekly yoga class (now also online), office happy hours, end of year celebrations. Our team wants you to feel welcome!