Tech Lead Contract or Permanent

The Technical Lead provides hands-on technical leadership within agile delivery teams to ensure solutions are designed developed and delivered in alignment with enterprise architecture standards engineering best practices and operational requirements. The role is responsible for guiding technical implementation activities supporting engineering quality and enabling delivery teams to deliver secure scalable maintainable and resilient solutions.

The Technical Lead acts as the primary technical authority within the Scrum team and works closely with architects developers DevOps engineers Product Owners and delivery stakeholders to ensure technical alignment across solution delivery activities. The role contributes to technical planning risk management architecture alignment engineering governance and continuous improvement initiatives.

The position requires strong technical expertise leadership capability and the ability to balance hands-on engineering delivery with mentoring coordination and technical decision-making responsibilities.

Please note you must already have Baseline security clearance or be eligible to obtain Baseline security clearance

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and guidance within agile delivery teams.
• Define and maintain technical design approaches aligned with enterprise standards.
• Collaborate with architects to ensure alignment with solution intent and architecture roadmaps.
• Lead technical planning activities during sprint and Program Increment planning.
• Identify assess and mitigate technical risks and implementation challenges.
• Ensure non-functional requirements including performance security observability and accessibility are addressed.
• Guide engineering teams on development standards coding practices and technical quality expectations.
• Support integration planning deployment readiness and operational supportability.
• Contribute to technical governance peer reviews and engineering assurance activities.
• Mentor developers and support capability uplift across delivery teams.
• Participate in technical communities guilds and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend engineering improvements where appropriate.

• Provides specialist technical leadership within delivery teams.
• Influences technical implementation and engineering practices.
• Performs complex engineering and design activities.
• Supports technical governance and quality outcomes.
• Contributes to mentoring and capability development initiatives.

Qualifications :

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong software engineering and solution delivery experience.
• Experience leading technical implementation activities within agile teams.
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture and engineering standards.
• Strong troubleshooting and technical problem-solving capability.
• Experience mentoring developers and supporting engineering quality.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder collaboration skills.
• must already have Baseline security clearance or be eligible to obtain Baseline security clearance

Additional Information :

Why join us: 

NCS Australia is where you can feel at home nurturing your talents and skills as we make tomorrow together one day at a time. Our benefits include paid parental leave initiatives focused on your well-being and discounted health insurance. You will also enjoy discounts on various products and services and be regularly recognised and rewarded for high performance. We are committed to your career development through our Capability Fingerprint industry and partner training programs special interest groups and an AI-driven learning platform. No matter where you are in your career we offer meaningful work and opportunities for growth.

NCS Australia is an equal-opportunity employer and we take pride in our commitment to valuing and supporting our people and the communities we are dedicated to attracting retaining and developing our people regardless of gender identity ethnicity sexual orientation disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community and we strongly encourage applications from the Veterans Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community.

At NCS Australia we are committed to supporting adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process as well as during employment. We actively support and encourage people with disability to apply. 

Agencies:

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Work rights and background checks: 

To be eligible for a position with us applicants will need to have valid work rights for Australia and be willing to undergo a comprehensive background checking process including probity and police checks

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time