Head of Engineering

• Great work life balance in supportive team environment
• Competitive salary on offer
• Not for profit

Head of Engineering - Not for Profit HealthTech| Permanent | Full Time | Melbourne

About the role

This one's a bit different.

It's a senior engineering leadership role, but not the kind where you sit in architecture reviews all day and occasionally drop into standups. You'll be close to the work. Working with the Head of Product, Lead Engineer, BAs and Solution Architects to figure out what gets shipped with what, what the dependencies are, how to sequence it, and what needs to be solved before the next release goes out the door.

One foot in delivery. One foot in governance. Neither of them off the ground.

You won't be cutting code, but you'll need to understand it well enough that the people who are, trust your instincts. The team will look to you to set the standard for quality, for how decisions get made, and for what good actually looks like.

What you'll be doing:

• Leading a tight cross-functional team (DevOps Lead, Developers, UX/UI Designer, Technical BA) and helping them do their best work
• Owning release governance across web, iOS and Android, including feature flags, rollback plans and go/no-go calls
• Governing CI/CD pipelines and keeping delivery predictable without making it bureaucratic
• Partnering with Product and the broader business to translate roadmap into something the team can actually execute
• Managing outsourced engineering partners, holding them to a standard, integrating them properly and managing the risk that comes with it
• Shaping architecture decisions and keeping the platform moving forward without accumulating debt
• Evaluating and governing AI-assisted development tooling in a context where content integrity genuinely matters

The stack:

React PWA, iOS and Android, Azure (B2C, Entra ID, Front Door, GPT-4o, Semantic Search), Power Platform, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Flagsmith, Figma, Salesforce, Dataverse, BrowserStack, Cucumber, JIRA

What we're looking for:

• Extensive hands-on experience in software engineering, with a demonstrated track record in senior engineering leadership
• You know this stack, or enough of it that picking up the rest won't take long
• You've built or matured an engineering team, not just managed one
• You've worked in a regulated or high-trust environment before (health, finance, or similar)
• You can have a hard conversation with a vendor, a clear conversation with a non-technical exec, and a useful conversation with a developer, all in the same afternoon
• You're the kind of person who spots what needs fixing before anyone has to point it out

The kind of person who will thrive here:

You don't need a lot of handholding. You know what the destination looks like and you're good at bringing people with you without making it feel like a directive. You're visionary enough to set direction but grounded enough to stay in the detail when it matters. And you take the work seriously without taking yourself too seriously.

Why it's worth a look:

The products this team builds are used by health professionals across Australia every day. That gives the work a weight that's hard to find in most technology roles. The team is capable and collaborative. The autonomy is real and the organisation has been doing meaningful work in the NFP space for many years.

To apply, send through your CV and a short note on your experience with the stack and how you think about engineering leadership.

Job Reference Number: 06810-0013452373HS

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