General Manager, Engineering (Consumer Product)

What youll do

Your focus will be to grow a worldclass team (hiring and coaching) and putting them in the best position to succeed. You will also coordinate across departments to accomplish collaborative goals. You are a high achiever who enjoys improving existing core capabilities and expanding competitive advantage through the development and implementation of new commercial customer facing technology solutions.

• Own the engineering strategy and execution for carsales Consumer business covering product development platform architecture and engineering practices
• Collaborate with product data and technology leaders to guide the vision of the engineering and product delivery landscape
• Build an exceptional team and drives behavioural and cultural standards across their vertical
• Hold your teams collaborators and themselves accountable for delivering strategic outcomes to a high standard
• Lead the strategic planning and execution of our engineering roadmap and architectural evolution
• Oversee the evolution of platforms and internal systems while driving the pragmatic adoption of emerging technologies and architectural patterns
• Distil companylevel objectives into business unitlevel subobjectives and proactively create alignment at all levels
• Ensure engineering initiatives are aligned with carsales operational and commercial goals
• Establish disciplines (within engineering and with collaborating teams) that balance innovation velocity with operational reliability for speed to market and sustainable scale

Qualifications :

What we are looking for

• Success building strong engineering teams and an allofbusinessfirst culture
• Proven experience developing technology strategy that enables companylevel objectives and fostering alignment across diverse stakeholders
• Demonstrated influence skills to navigate crossfunctional dynamics enable robust debate and create unified commitment (disagree and commit) towards shared objectives
• Advanced understanding of software engineering fundamentals architecture principles and system design along with related domains such as infrastructure data and operations
• Technical agility to lead decisionmaking across disciplines including: core backend (e.g. .NET / Java) and frontend (e.g. React/Angular) frameworks cloud infrastructure architecture & design patterns (e.g. API design) dataintensive systems DevOps (CI/CD SRE) and security
• Track record defining and leading teams in executing practical engineering roadmaps aligned to business objectives
• Experienced guiding senior leadership on advancing product development and technical excellence agendas
• Able to independently negotiate complex tradeoffs between technical architecture commercial requirements and strategic considerations behind a multiyear plan
• The operating range to work broad and deep communicating appropriately with stakeholders at a range of levels

Additional Information :

A few other things we want to let you know about...

• carsales is an equal opportunity employer who prides themselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage everyone of all ages genders and backgrounds to apply. If youre a candidate with a disability or youll need some adjustments to be at your best let us know how we can provide you with additional support.
• We know how important keeping that balance between work/life is and have a range of flexible working options on offer including part time. We are open to this conversation during our recruitment process if you want to know more just ask!
• We are a proud Circle Back Initiative Employer which means we are committed to responding to every job applicant.
• Successful candidates joining the carsales family are required to undergo a National Police Record check and must have fulltime Australian working rights on an ongoing basis.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime