Our Why
Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people’s lives and help organisations use the power of tech to innovate and grow.
This is an incredible opportunity that offers the flexibility to work both from the comfort of your own home and in our bustling Wellington office. The ideal candidate must be located in the Wellington Region.
About the Role
This is a key, strategic role within Datacom, tasked with driving growth, innovation and ultimately commercial success for a market facing proposition.
Working within the Digital Engineering division you will guide the future of our proposition for Modern Application development. Leveraging the power of AWS and Azure, you will develop cloud native solutions that solve our customer business challenges. You will take responsibility for growing a high performing team, combining your deep technical expertise with strong commercial awareness to craft, position and sell development related services.
A willingness to work collaboratively with our internal teams, our clients and understanding our client’s customers. A good understanding of different delivery methods across agile and product is advantageous.
What you’ll do (Your Why):
- Team Leadership: Define and execute the capability plan to create a culture of success, including team growth, performance, and development.
- Technical Leadership: Provide expert guidance and technical leadership on the development of cloud solution s and cloud native development.
- Sales: Articulate and evangelise the Modern Application development value proposition across Sales, Service and Marketing to internal stakeholders, customers and the wider market.
- Strategic direction: Consult with the wider business to define and execute a growth strategy for the Modern Application services business across Wellington and wider markets.
- Commercial and financial management: Create and manage the operational budget, including month-end processes, invoicing and reporting.
- Partner Engagement: Lead strategic planning around opportunity and product roadmaps to ensure we work with our partners both efficiently and with impact.
What you’ll bring
The Practice Lead role in Datacom is a senior position leading a specialised area within our high-performing Digital Engineering business.
With responsibility spanning the entire process from capability development to identifying business value and managing delivery this is a challenging role demanding the highest level of people, technical and business skill. You’ll utilise your deep technical experience in Cloud technologies to provide insight and solutions to our large set of customers across New Zealand.
We need someone with solid technical knowledge, so experience and technical leadership roles involving Cloud application development is a definite must. As you build your Practice you will be happy rolling up your sleeves with hands on delivery, so you need to have experience implementing end to end application solutions in the past and be up to date with the latest technology.
You come with demonstrable experience driving growth, managing commercial operations and leading innovation. You will have excellent people skills, commercial acumen, and a solid understanding of software professional services delivery.
This is a unique opportunity to realise the potential of Cloud Native development within a premier technology brand. You will have the autonomy and freedom to lead, working with some of the brightest minds in the business.
Why join us here at Datacom?
Datacom is one of Australia and New Zealand’s largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services. We have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size. It's our people that give Datacom its unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us.
We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as social events, chill-out spaces, remote working, flexi-hours and professional development courses to name a few. You’ll have the opportunity to learn, develop your career, connect and bring your true self to work. You will be recognised and valued for your contributions and be able to do your work in a collegial, flat-structured environment.
We operate at the forefront of technology to help Australia and New Zealand’s largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their greatest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities.
We want Datacom to be an inclusive and welcoming workplace for everyone and take pride in the steps we have taken and continue to take to make our environment fun and friendly, and our people feel supported.