Application Engineering Lead

Who is Equifax?

Equifax is a leading global data, analytic and technology company, supporting customers across 24 countries. We have been serving the Australian and New Zealand markets for over 60 years. Through continuously adapting to our environment, not only have we remained a market leader, we drive and challenge ourselves to do better to help our customers live their financial best.

Our people are what makes us great at what we do - we see every member of our team as an integral piece of a jigsaw. We celebrate differences and recognise that each person brings with them unique talents and perspectives. We provide our people the support and flexibility to manage their work-life balance. At Equifax we genuinely care about our people and our ability to come together as #OneEquifax.

The perks of being an Equifax employee within the Technology team?

There are lots of perks of being an Equifax employee – we offer additional leave days as we recognise the importance of taking time out, whether that’s to catch up on some rest, celebrate a birthday, or give back to our community by volunteering. We are committed to the wellbeing of our people and provide them with discounted private health cover, access to comprehensive hearing services and discounts, and offer 24/7 support through our employee assistance program.

Our leadership team fosters a culture of ownership, they will lead, coach, mentor and listen. We support one another to feel confident to speak up and hold each other accountable to work with integrity.

We are a large and truly diverse team with a great representation of different cultures, ages and backgrounds. We celebrate this jigsaw of experience and believe that diversity of thoughts is the key to our success. We are supportive, energised and work collaboratively as a team to achieve our organisational outcomes. We are devoted to learning new technologies and work in a creative and innovative environment. Our team is afforded a unique work/life balance that we highly value.

As a team we are driving our exciting global technology transformation with a customer-centric cloud native approach. While security is at the forefront of our technology offerings, we are also reducing complexities in our systems to create better outcomes for our customers.

What you’ll do

The Application Engineering Lead (Engineering Manager) provides technical direction to software engineers across multiple squads and leads the teams to work as cohesive units, aspiring towards autonomy, and cross-functionality. The Lead provides a vision and operating model for them to succeed.

Embracing the “build, run, own” model, the Lead continuously improves the productivity of the agile teams, whilst ensuring systems are run adequately in an efficient and optimised manner.

The role takes ownership and accountability of all people and systems that are assigned and helps build a culture of customer-centricity within the team.

The Lead is part of the Tribe leadership and may be relied upon to manage the Tribe overall, from time to time.

What are we looking for?

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Strong technical acumen and significant experience as a Software Engineer, then a Team Lead and then as an Engineering Manager

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Technical experience with Java, front end Angular, Cloud and good understanding of the Architecture

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As well as being able to help with operations, continuous improvement and learning within the teams

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Experience in the development and management of team backlogs

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Experience managing large teams across multiple sites

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Ability to lead and encourage accurate estimates of time, scope and resources

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Led large software including those with global teams

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Familiarity in guiding high-impact, high priority product offerings using a variety of common Agile models including mapping epic and story levels

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Engage stakeholders and develop confidence with both, business and IT stakeholders, in using outcome-based engagement models

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Develop actionable ideas to improve productivity and the quality of work

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Effectively collaborate and communicate with the stakeholders and ensure internal client satisfaction

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Familiarity and experience in secure software development practices and working in a highly-regulated environment.

Success attributes of an Equifax employee; does this describe you?

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Accountable

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Brave

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Curious

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Collaborative

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Individualist

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Trustworthy

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Dedicated

At Equifax, there is no such thing as the 'perfect candidate'

Seeing responsibilities and competencies laid out on paper can be confronting. At this stage of the application process, sometimes imposter syndrome can creep in and mess with our confidence. Please know, we list these items to give you an opportunity to show us your potential and how you can grow and transform with us.

Your ability to demonstrate that you possess/have the real potential to develop the required capabilities, knowledge, experience and qualifications to perform in our roles is what we would like to hear from you. Where possible, you should support your claims with specific examples of what you have done and how you did it.

However you identify, and whatever background you bring with you, please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come to work every day!

Primary Location

AUS-Sydney-90-Arthur

Function

Function - Tech Dev and Client Services

Schedule

Full time