Delivery Engineering Lead

• Full Time, 12-month Max Term Contract
• Location: Flexible State Location, with Work from Home Options!
• Salary From $175,000 + Super + NFP Salary Packaging Benefits
• Make a meaningful difference to the lives of Australians in need

Life at Mission Australia

When you join the team at Mission Australia, you become part of a community who are determined to end homelessness and ensure people in need can thrive. United by our Christian purpose and values, we advocate for a fairer Australia, to meet the growing needs of people across the country. Together we’re building hope and possibility for all.

Find out more about us and our purpose.

Your opportunity

Every day, technology helps make it possible for people and communities to access the support they need, when they need it most. As our Delivery Engineering Lead, you will play a pivotal role in connecting product vision with technical excellence, leading a team of developers to deliver reliable, secure and impactful digital solutions that support Mission Australia's services across the country.

Working within our Enterprise Digital and Data Enablement function, you will bring together delivery leadership, engineering expertise and people leadership to ensure digital products are planned effectively, delivered with confidence and supported long after they go live.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Lead end-to-end delivery of digital solutions, ensuring scope, quality, risk and timelines are effectively managed.
• Translate product priorities into achievable delivery plans aligned to team capacity and organisational objectives.
• Monitor progress, manage dependencies and proactively address delivery risks and challenges.
• Provide clear and transparent reporting on delivery performance, milestones and confidence levels.
• Lead, coach and develop a high-performing engineering team through values-based leadership.
• Maintain hands-on involvement in technical design, development and problem solving across multiple technologies.
• Champion engineering excellence through quality standards, testing, peer review and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with product teams, stakeholders and vendors to deliver sustainable, business-focused outcomes.

Requirements for success

• Tertiary qualification in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading software delivery teams in a hands-on engineering leadership role.
• Proven experience coaching, mentoring and supporting developers to achieve strong delivery outcomes.
• Strong capability delivering solutions within Microsoft-centric environments including Dynamics 365, Azure, Power Platform and Microsoft 365.
• Experience working within complex, integrated enterprise environments with multiple dependencies.
• Strong delivery planning, prioritisation, risk management and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to balance operational demands, incident response and long-term engineering quality.
• Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.

Before starting work with us, you will need to undertake a national police history check, qualifications, and referee checks, and have a clearance to work with children/vulnerable people.

Your benefits

To ensure our employees feel valued, empowered, and celebrated, we provide a range of employee benefits including:

• Rewarding work – every day you know you’re making a real difference
• Not-for-profit salary packaging, reducing your tax (details via AccessPay)
• Free external, confidential counselling and access to chaplaincy support
• Volunteering opportunities 
• Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave 
• Extra leave including: Mission Australia Thank You Day & Work Anniversary Day off

Our culture  

Our innovative and inclusive culture will ensure you feel valued at Mission Australia as you help Australians in need and develop in your career.  

We prioritise the safety and wellbeing of everyone, both within our team and the individuals we serve.

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment. We actively support and encourage people of all backgrounds; gender, age, ethnicity, race, cultural background, disability, religion, and sexual orientation to submit an application and aim to ensure that the recruitment and employee experience is as accessible and inclusive as possible. So, whoever you are, if you’re skilled and actively support our purpose and values, you would be welcome at Mission Australia.

If you live with disability and require support to submit your application, please email talentattraction@missionaustralia.com.au or visit our Careers page for additional contact details.

We strongly encourage applications from people who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. For culturally safe support or assistance with your application, please contact us at Deadlycareers@missionaustralia.com.au  

Find out more about a career with Mission Australia. 

How to apply

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Applications are shortlisted as they are received. Please apply as soon as possible to be considered. Thank you