.Net Practice Manager

At VicRoads the work you do has real impact. Our work connects people and communities. We keep Victorians moving safely and smoothly today and help them be ready for tomorrow.

VicRoads empowers our people to learn and grow– focusing on impact and innovation. We reflect the diversity of Victoria and foster clever thinking to keep you and the community moving.

VicRoads is progressing too. In August 2022, we started on a new chapter when the Victorian State Government partnered with Aware Super, Australian Retirement Trust, and Macquarie Asset Management to operate registration and licensing services on its behalf.

We work collaboratively with the Victorian State Government to ensure we fulfill regulatory requirements, deliver State projects and safeguard customer data. The Victorian State Government retains sole responsibility for road access, infrastructure and safety.

• Annual Salary Range: Up to $210,000 + Super 
• Employment Type: Full-Time – Ongoing
• Usual Work Location: QV 180 Lonsdale Street CBD/ Work from home

Are you passionate about creating products and experiences that not only meet user needs but also captivate their hearts and minds? Are you excited about the challenge of balancing customer desirability with business viability, technology feasibility and broader business strategy to deliver exceptional experiences? If so, we have an incredible opportunity for you! 

We are seeking a talented and driven individual to join our dynamic Technology Operations team. As a team member, you will play a pivotal role in working with our business and helping to support and provide engineering services to the digital platform.  You will work alongside a group of passionate professionals who are dedicated to delivering innovative solutions that exceed customer expectations. 

Your team is part of the Technology division, a team that are truly collaborative and passionate, and work closely together to deliver outcomes that positively transform the way our customers use our services.  

About the Opportunity 

The .NET Practice Manager is responsible for leading and evolving VicRoads’ .NET engineering capability across digital platforms and services, ensuring the delivery, hosting, and ongoing operation of secure, scalable, and high-performing applications within AWS environments. This role combines strategic leadership, technical governance, and delivery accountability, overseeing end-to-end engineering outcomes including solution design, coding standards, deployment practices, and operational excellence.

The position leads multiple engineering teams through subordinate leads, fostering a strong engineering culture, driving consistent ways of working, and ensuring alignment between business objectives, technology strategy, and customer outcomes. Working closely with Architecture, Security, DevOps, and Product teams, the .NET Practice Manager ensures solutions are fit-for-purpose, aligned to enterprise standards, and optimised for performance, resilience, and maintainability.

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• Lead .Net Engineer Practice: Define and govern engineering standards, patterns, and best practices across all .NET applications, ensuring consistency, quality, and scalability across teams.
• Delivery and Solution Ownership: Oversee end-to-end delivery of .NET solutions, including solution design, development, and implementation, ensuring alignment with business priorities and enterprise architecture
• AWS Hosting and Operations: Own the hosting, operation, and reliability of applications within AWS, ensuring performance, resilience, security, and cost efficiency
• Engineering Quality and DevOps Practices: Establish and enforce coding standards, code review processes, and quality controls, while driving CI/CD, automation, and modern deployment practices
• People Leadership and Ways of Working: Lead and develop engineering leads and teams, embedding consistent Agile ways of working, building capability, and fostering a high-performing engineering culture
• Platform Governance, Stakeholder and Risk Management: Provide oversight of platform technologies, including Sitecore, while collaborating closely with Architecture, Security, and Product teams to ensure solutions are aligned and fit for purpose, and maintain compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory requirements while driving continuous improvement.

About you 

You bring deep expertise in the .NET ecosystem, including .NET Core, ASP.NET, Web APIs, and modern application frameworks, along with a strong understanding of cloud-native design and development in AWS across compute, storage, networking, and managed services. You have proven experience designing and delivering scalable, resilient, and secure distributed systems, supported by strong capability in CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and automated deployment practices. Your knowledge extends to application monitoring, observability, service reliability, and operational support models, underpinned by a commitment to coding standards, code quality, and secure development principles. You are confident working with integration patterns such as APIs, event-driven architecture, and messaging systems, and have the ability to establish reusable patterns, engineering guardrails, and governance across multiple teams.

With extensive experience in enterprise-scale .NET engineering, you have successfully led multiple engineering teams through subordinate leaders, building capability, accountability, and high performance. You are adept at delivering, hosting, and operating applications in AWS environments, and have a track record of establishing consistent engineering standards and ways of working across complex environments. You bring strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, enabling you to align engineering outcomes with business, customer, architecture, security, and operational needs, and to collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams. Experience in large, complex, or regulated environments will be highly regarded, particularly with exposure to Sitecore CMS, large-scale transformation programs, or public sector security, privacy, and compliance frameworks, as well as supporting high-availability platforms with a focus on resilience and continuous improvement.

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Our culture 

Innovation powers progress, but it doesn’t come without support. To attract, retain, and develop talented people, we reward initiative and ingenuity, foster collaboration, and offer dynamic career development. At VicRoads, we embrace diversity and inclusion and we’re proud our workforce reflects the community we work for. 

What we offer 

• Salary packaging, Fitness Passport & discounts to hundreds of retailers
• Opportunities for professional and personal development 
• Flexible working arrangements and family-friendly practices, including 16 weeks paid parental leave 

How to apply 

We encourage applications from people of all genders, backgrounds and communities. 

If you need any adjustments to our recruitment process or the role itself, please let us know when applying. 

Please submit your application via the “Apply” button.

For a copy of the Position Description please

email talentacquisition@vicroads.com.au   

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VicRoads is required to evidence your right to work in Australia and may ask for your consent to check records maintained by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection as well as records maintained by Victoria Police and VicRoads as part of the selection process. Information provided to VicRoads will be treated in the strictest confidence. Please note that due to legal requirements you must be predominantly located in Australia and for certain roles, predominantly located in Melbourne or Victoria.