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SalaryNine is Australia's largest locally owned media company - the home of Australia's most trusted and loved brands spanning News, Sport, Lifestyle, and Entertainment. We pride ourselves on creating the best content, accessed by consumers when and how they want - across Publishing, Broadcasting and Digital.
Nine's assets include the 9Network, major mastheads such as The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian Financial Review, radio stations 2GB, 3AW, 4BC and 6PR, digital properties such as nine.com.au, 9Now, 9Honey, Pedestrian.TV, Drive, subscription video platform Stan and a majority investment in Domain Group.
Job Description
Australia's leading broadcast video on demand platform, 9Now, offers a destination for consumers around Australia to catch up on their favourite programs and watch live TV anywhere, anytime, on their chosen device.
We're looking for a highly-skilled technical leader with proven people & development team management experience to lead a team of engineers focused on delivering an amazing experience to Connected TVs.
To succeed in this role, you will have a passion for managing people and a background in building high-quality front-end applications. You will be able to organise and motivate teams to consistently deliver on significant roadmaps of enhancements and lead a team of high-performing Engineers.
You will have confidence discussing complex technical concepts with your peers and can articulate them simply and clearly to business stakeholders. You will manage multiple relationships, including product managers, senior tech leadership and external vendors.
If you want to lead a highly collaborative team with a fantastic culture that is always looking to use the latest and greatest technology to build things in a more maintainable and efficient way, Nine Tech would like to hear from you today.
What you'll be doing
Enabling your team
Work with stakeholders to provide technical solutions to problems or issues
Act as a enabler, removing roadblocks to progress as needed
Maintain high quality standards for yourself and software engineering practices of your team
Work with team members to guide solutions towards business and technology goals
Drive the continuous improvement of processes and ways of work to improve team capacity and capability
Technical Leadership
Drive adoption of best practice and best in class technology
Remove single points of failure by cross-skilling staff and making sensible, strategic resourcing decisions
Drive high performance
Provide one on one feedback, career advice and coaching for your team members
Communicate openly and be the voice of the business within your team, keeping them informed of and working towards the business vision & goals
Participate in hiring and other HR processes affecting your team where needed
Mentor team members to create a highly motivated, coherent, and cohesive culture which rewards high performance
Qualifications
You are passionate about your team and their professional development. You remain engaged in their wellbeing, growing their skillset and assisting them in finding great opportunities to further themselves.
You are keen and capable of being 'hands-on', but you make the choice when and if you should be involved. Your experience in this area allows you to provide meaningful support to your team by reviewing work and providing feedback.
Your 'can-do' and open customer centred approach makes you approachable to work with. You will contribute to a learning-oriented workplace culture, being curious about the world around you, seeking new ways to explore and bring new thinking and practices to bear within your team. You remain open to learning new technologies and techniques, and finding creative ways to leverage this knowledge to further team goals. Agile work & planning practices are second nature to how you operate.
What you'll know
2+ years in a team or technical leadership role managing people
4+ years experience in web or software development
Strong technical knowledge and hands-on development capability in relevant technologies. (eg. Javascript, ReactJS or others as required by the squad)
Proven skills creating a high performance team environment
Managing yourself and your team in a fast changing environment with competing priorities
A strong understanding of agile development best practices including Scrum and Lean methodologies
Excellent communication skills
Additional Information
Life at Nine
Nine is a people business. Being part of the team means you'll be in a culture that promotes creativity and innovation, diversity and inclusion, is open to feedback, rewards impact and ensures everyone is heard. Importantly, you'll receive the following:
- Career development and quality training
- Up to 16 weeks paid primary carer's parental leave
- Discounts on lifestyle, entertainment, and leisure memberships, including health insurance, dental and gym
- Access to Future Women - a movement to help women connect, learn and lead through unique content and events.
- Hybrid Working/Flexible working
- Discounts on products and services with corporate partners
At Nine, we are committed to fostering a workforce that embraces all aspects of diversity and inclusion and where practices are equitable to ensure our people experience a sense of belonging. From day one, you'll be encouraged to bring your whole self to work and will be supported to perform at your best. Should you require any adjustments to the recruitment process in order to equitably participate, we encourage you to advise us at the time of application.
We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.
Nine's Workplace Condition of Entry:
Nine is committed to maintaining a safe and healthy workplace and doing what is reasonably practical to protect our people, including visitors to all Nine sites and events.
Nine has introduced a Workplace Condition of Entry - COVID 19 Policy that requires all workplace attendees and participants to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 before entering a Nine workplace (unless you have a valid medical exemption). You will be asked to declare your vaccination status as part of the application process and provide evidence of this. This information will be treated in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
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