Senior Engineering Manager

Job no: 505287
Work type: Ongoing Full Time
Location: Various
Categories: Leadership IT/Technology

About the Role

This role leads the strategy architecture engineering and operations of the ABCs audience-facing digital product experiences which include both market leading and household names like ABC News ABC iview and ABC Listen. Working across web mobile large screen voice and emerging platforms the role shapes how millions of Australians experience ABC content every day. It brings together deep technical leadership people-first management and strong audience empathy to ensure digital products are reliable scalable and continually evolving. The role plays a critical part in setting the long-term direction for how digital experiences are designed built and operated across Digital Product.

Key Accountabilities

Technical Leadership

• Work closely with the Digital Product Leadership Team to define clear forward-looking architecture and development strategies that support modern inclusive and sustainable software engineering practices.
• Take principal accountability for the long-term engineering strategy and vision for delivering audience-facing digital products across web mobile large screen voice and emerging touchpoints.
• Provide strategic-level expertise on digital product architecture and implementation guiding software engineering practices such as continuous integration and delivery across a broad portfolio of teams and products.

People Leadership

• Lead and support multiple multidisciplinary teams as they identify prioritise and deliver product enhancements and improvements across the full range of ABC digital experiences.
• Create an inclusive and supportive environment by building strong relationships setting clear expectations managing performance thoughtfully and communicating openly and consistently.
• Bring strong product engineering architecture and leadership capability to the Digital Product division driving continuous improvement in how teams build test and operate digital products.

Relationship Management

• Build trusted relationships with internal stakeholders and content teams fostering genuine collaboration and shared ownership of outcomes aligned to the broader technology strategy.
• Partner closely with product management teams to ensure strong audience empathy and alignment between product roadmaps engineering priorities and delivery capabilities.
• Encourage a customer-focused mindset across teams ensuring the capabilities tools standards and frameworks that underpin software engineering enable teams to deliver great audience experiences.

Strategy and Planning

• Contribute as an active member of the senior management team shaping strategy supporting change initiatives driving delivery and representing the interests of the division and the wider organisation.
• Participate in divisional strategic planning and resource review processes to ensure teams are positioned for long-term success.

Key Capabilities

• Relevant tertiary qualifications or equivalent practical experience skills and knowledge.
• Significant people leadership experience including setting strategic direction for people managers and individual contributors in a highly technical audience-facing environment.
• A strong track record of building and evolving software development teams responsible for large-scale audience-facing digital products ideally within a media or content-driven organisation.
• Proven experience establishing software engineering practices that enable scalable reliable and secure digital products in cloud-based environments including influencing and growing communities of practice.
• Deep understanding of modern software engineering practices and the ability to evaluate new technologies and approaches with curiosity and sound judgement.
• Experience contributing to and collaboratively developing strategic roadmaps across a portfolio of audience-facing digital products.

About You

• Extensive experience leading people in highly technical audience-facing environments including setting strategic direction for both people leaders and individual contributor.
• Demonstrated success in building growing and evolving software engineering teams responsible for large-scale audience-facing digital products ideally within a media or content-driven context.
• Significant experience establishing and embedding modern software engineering practices and processes that deliver scalable reliable and secure digital products in cloud-based environments along with influencing and leading communities of practice in these areas.
• Strong track record of engaging advising and influencing at senior executive level with the confidence to contribute to high-level decision making.
• Deep knowledge of contemporary software engineering methodologies with the ability to research critically assess and evaluate emerging technologies and approaches.
• Demonstrated experience contributing to and co-developing strategic roadmaps for a portfolio of audience-facing digital products in collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Highly developed strategic and creative thinking capability with the ability to foster innovation inspire teams and deliver measurable outcomes using a customer-centric and business-aligned approach to decision making.

For further information on this position please contact Jamie Nedved Recruitment Lead via email

Full Position Description: Senior Engineering

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Advertised: 23 Feb 2026 12:00 AM AUS Eastern Daylight Time
Applications close: 09 Mar 2026 5:00 PM AUS Eastern Daylight Time