Engineering Manager

About the role
 

We’re now seeking an Engineering Manager to join our Technology team on a permanent, full-time basis. As Engineering Manager, you’ll lead a cross-functional engineering team delivering critical digital experiences across the Tennis Australia Participation ecosystem, including tennis.com.au, booking platforms, and associated systems that support and grow the game nationally.
 

Playing a key role in driving and supporting tennis participation, you’ll balance hands-on technical leadership with people leadership – ensuring delivery excellence, platform performance, and innovation across high-scale, customer-facing products.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Leading and mentoring a cross-functional engineering squad, fostering a high-performing, agile culture aligned to strategic objectives
• Driving the technical delivery of Participation platforms, contributing to architecture, coding standards, and continuous improvement
• Owning and optimising CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps practices to ensure efficient and reliable delivery
• Ensuring platform performance, scalability, and security across customer-facing systems, including incident management and response
• Collaborating with internal teams, stakeholders, and external vendors to deliver seamless, high-quality digital experiences that support participation growth

About you

To be successful in this role you will:

• Bring proven experience leading engineering teams delivering high-scale, high-availability digital platforms
• Have strong hands-on technical expertise across cloud platforms (Azure), CI/CD, DevOps practices, and modern software engineering (e.g. APIs, microservices, mobile or web apps)
• Demonstrate experience contributing to architecture, code reviews, and technical decision-making in complex environments
• Have deep understanding and/or hands-on experience with back-end technologies, such as Azure, .NET, and SQL/NoSQL databases
• Have deep understanding and/or hands-on experience with front-end frameworks, such as React and ASP.NET
• Bring experience with or exposure to Content Management Systems (CMS)
• Have a track record of improving platform performance, reliability, and scalability under high traffic conditions
• Be a collaborative leader who builds strong stakeholder relationships and drives alignment across product, engineering, and external partners
• Hold (or be willing to obtain) a current Police Check and Working with Children Check
• Preparedness to be flexible in regard to working hours and arrangements relating to work associated with Tennis Australia

We believe playing makes life better and we are always on the lookout to talented people to join our team and help us create a playful world through tennis.

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