Engineering Team Lead

See yourself being part of a large, transformational change? This could be the role for you!

At Iress, we make things happen

We believe technology should help people perform better every day. Since our beginning in 1993, people across financial services have trusted us to take their performance to the next level. More than 10,000 businesses and 500,000 people use our software, from the world’s most iconic financial services brands to advice firms of all sizes, banks, insurers, investment managers, traders and brokers. Iress is one of Australia’s largest technology companies and employs more than 1500 people across Australia, The United Kingdom, Africa, Canada, France, New Zealand and Asia.

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Role purpose

The Engineer is responsible for delivering high-quality software solutions across the entire product lifecycle-from inception to deployment and production support. By writing clean, well-tested code, the role works collaboratively to build scalable and reliable functionality for Iress products.

This role focuses on key technical specialisations (e.g., Software, Data, Security, Support & Reliability) while developing domain expertise in areas such as Trading, Lending, or Advice.

Combining technical engineering with collaborative leadership, the Engineer focuses on delivering impactful business outcomes that drive success for Iress and its clients.

Accountabilities and deliverables

• Engineering delivery: Own the team’s delivery of agreed product priorities, translating requirements into achievable plans, managing capacity and dependencies, and ensuring commitments are met. Provide clear visibility of progress, risks and trade-offs, escalating issues early.
• People leadership: Set clear expectations, provide regular feedback and coaching, and manage performance. Develop team capability through development plans, knowledge sharing and opportunities to build skills and experience.
• Technical quality: Ensure solutions meet agreed architecture, security, quality and maintainability standards. Guide technical decisions and ensure appropriate design reviews, code reviews, testing and documentation.
• Operational reliability: Maintain the reliability and performance of the services the team owns. Ensure effective monitoring, incident response and resolution of underlying issues to reduce recurrence.
• Product partnership: Work closely with Product to clarify requirements, assess feasibility and provide estimates and technical advice. Make delivery implications and trade-offs clear so priorities and commitments are informed by engineering capacity.
• Continuous improvement: Improve engineering practices, tools and delivery processes to strengthen quality, predictability and efficiency. Encourage pragmatic adoption of automation and new technologies.
• Technology sustainability: Identify and manage technical debt, lifecycle risks and maintenance needs. Ensure these are visible and appropriately considered alongside product priorities.
• Cross-team collaboration: Coordinate with other engineering teams and relevant stakeholders to manage shared dependencies, resolve blockers and support consistent engineering practices.
• Risk and governance: Embed relevant security, privacy, risk and compliance requirements into the team’s work. Ensure controls are followed and material risks are raised and addressed.
• Team effectiveness: Build an inclusive, collaborative environment where people take ownership, raise concerns early and constructively challenge ideas. Model Iress’ values and reinforce clear responsibilities and effective ways of working.

Key relationships

• Head of Engineering: Align on engineering priorities, team performance, capability, delivery commitments and technical risks.
• Product Managers and Product Owners: Translate product priorities into delivery plans, clarify requirements and agree scope, sequencing and trade-offs.
• Engineering team members: Provide direction, coaching and support, with clear expectations for delivery, quality and individual performance.
• Other Engineering Team Leads and engineering teams: Coordinate dependencies, share expertise and improve consistency across engineering practices.
• Architecture, Security and technology specialists: Ensure solutions align with technical standards, security requirements and the broader technology direction.
• Customer Enablement, Implementation and Operations teams: Support releases, resolve customer issues and incorporate operational feedback into engineering improvements.
• People & Culture: Partner on recruitment, performance, development and team wellbeing.

Core skills, knowledge and attributes

• Software engineering expertise: Strong experience in software development, with the technical depth to guide design decisions, review solutions and support engineers in resolving complex problems.
• People leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead, coach and develop engineers, set clear expectations and address performance concerns constructively.
• Delivery management: Ability to translate product priorities into realistic engineering plans, manage capacity and dependencies, and maintain delivery momentum as circumstances change.
• Engineering practices: Sound knowledge of modern development practices, including automated testing, CI/CD, code review, observability and secure development.
• Technology sustainability: Ability to balance immediate delivery needs with reliability, maintainability, scalability and the management of technical debt.
• Communication and collaboration: Clear communication with technical and non-technical audiences, including the ability to explain options, risks and trade-offs and work effectively across teams.
• Customer and commercial awareness: Understanding of how engineering decisions affect customer outcomes, service quality and business performance. Experience in financial services or a regulated software environment is desirable.
• Judgement and problem-solving: A pragmatic approach to decision-making, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, identify underlying issues and escalate concerns appropriately.
• Ownership and adaptability: Takes accountability for team outcomes, responds constructively to feedback and adapts plans in response to changing priorities.
• Inclusive leadership: Builds trust, encourages constructive challenge and creates an environment where people feel comfortable raising concerns and learning from mistakes.

Key competencies

• Leading and developing others: Builds team capability through clear expectations, coaching, feedback and effective performance management.
• Accountability and execution: Takes ownership of engineering outcomes, follows through on commitments and addresses delivery risks early.
• Judgement and decision-making: Makes sound, timely decisions, balancing delivery, technical quality, risk and long-term sustainability.
• Collaboration and influence: Builds effective partnerships across functions, resolves competing perspectives and establishes clear agreements.
• Customer focus: Connects the team’s work to customer needs and ensures engineering decisions support reliable, valuable solutions.
• Communication: Provides clear direction and communicates progress, risks and trade-offs in a way that supports informed decisions.
• Continuous improvement: Uses feedback, evidence and lessons learned to improve team effectiveness and engineering practices.

Adaptability and resilience: Leads calmly through change and uncertainty, helping the team adjust priorities and maintain focus.

Why work with us?

• 8 additional paid days per year to extend your weekends
• Hybrid working
• Generous cash bonus for every successful referral
• Starting school leave - 8.5 days of leave to assist your children with the transition to school
• Up to 26 weeks’ paid parental leave for primary carers (up to 4 weeks for secondary carers), and the ability to work part-time when returning to work
• 3 days’ paid leave per year to participate in charity initiatives
• Discounted health insurance premiums
• Access to learning and development programs through LinkedIn Learning

Iress is committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive culture. We strongly believe that diversity is what makes our teams and our products succeed. Our people have different experiences, skills, perspectives and beliefs and everyone’s uniqueness is valued and celebrated.

Our hiring decisions are never based on sexual orientation, race, gender identity, religion, disability, citizenship, marital or family status and age. Even if you feel you don’t meet all of the requirements of the role, we would still like to hear from you!

We’re also proud to be globally recognised as a WORK180 Endorsed Employer that promotes and supports all women in the workplace.

For more information about what we do, our people and values, please visit our website -https://www.iress.com/join-us/careers/

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