ARQ, Dialog, CatapultBI, ICEMEDIA, Eighty20, Riley and AccessHQ are now all part of NCS Australia.

We are NCS Australia! We have brought together Australia’s best tech talent, working as one to harness technology and advance our communities, to make the extraordinary happen.

We're proud of our rich history of partnering with our clients to develop end to end digital technology solutions to accelerate their transformation and innovation journey. For over 40+ years our diverse global teams have delivered large-scale, mission-critical, multi-platform projects to governments and enterprises.

We are looking for an experienced Technical Lead to provide hands-on leadership within agile delivery teams, ensuring solutions are designed, built, and delivered in alignment with enterprise architecture standards and engineering best practices.

This role is ideal for a senior engineer stepping into an emerging leadership capacity. You will remain actively hands-on in development while also guiding the team on technical implementation, design decisions, and engineering quality.

As the primary technical authority within the Scrum team, you will collaborate closely with architects, developers, DevOps engineers, and Product Owners to deliver secure, scalable, and resilient solutions.

To be effective, your technical expertise should align strongly with the team’s technology stack — particularly .NET and Angular — enabling you to provide credible leadership and practical support across both design and build phases.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership within agile delivery teams
• Define and maintain solution design approaches aligned with enterprise standards
• Collaborate with architects to ensure alignment with target state architecture and roadmaps
• Lead technical planning during sprint cycles and Program Increment (PI) planning
• Guide and support team members on technical implementation and development practices
• Identify, assess, and mitigate technical risks and implementation challenges
• Ensure non-functional requirements (performance, security, scalability, observability, accessibility) are met
• Drive engineering quality through coding standards, reviews, and best practices
• Support integration planning, deployment readiness, and operational supportability
• Contribute to technical governance, assurance activities, and peer reviews
• Mentor developers and uplift team capability
• Participate in engineering communities, guilds, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements

You are a strong engineer with natural leadership capability, comfortable balancing hands-on delivery with technical guidance and mentoring. You bring credibility through your technical expertise and enjoy supporting others to succeed.

You thrive in agile environments and are passionate about building robust, maintainable, and scalable solutions.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Strong experience in software engineering and solution delivery
• Proven ability to lead technical implementation within agile teams
• Hands-on expertise in .NET or Angular (essential)
• Solid understanding of enterprise architecture principles and engineering standards
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Experience mentoring developers and improving engineering quality
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Provides specialist technical leadership within delivery teams
• Remains hands-on in development while stepping into a Technical Lead capacity
• Influences engineering practices and technical decision-making
• Performs complex engineering and design activities
• Supports technical governance and quality outcomes
• Contributes to mentoring and capability uplift initiatives

Why join us:

NCS Australia is where you can feel at home, nurturing your talents and skills as we make tomorrow together, one day at a time. Our benefits include paid parental leave, initiatives focused on your well-being and discounted health insurance. You will also enjoy discounts on various products and services and be regularly recognised and rewarded for high performance. We are committed to your career development through our Capability Fingerprint, industry and partner training programs, special interest groups, and an AI-driven learning platform. No matter where you are in your career, we offer meaningful work and opportunities for growth.

NCS Australia is an equal-opportunity employer, and we take pride in our commitment to valuing and supporting our people and the communities we serve.We are dedicated to attracting, retaining and developing our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community and we strongly encourage applications from the Veterans, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community.

At NCS Australia, we are committed to supporting adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, as well as during employment. We actively support and encourage people with disability to apply.

Agencies:

We’ve got this. We request that you do not contact NCS employees outside of the Talent Acquisition team. NCS exclusively accepts resumes from agencies on our preferred supplier panel through the NCS Agency Portal. Agencies that submit resumes must have a valid fee agreement and be assigned to the particular requisition by the Talent Acquisition team. Any resumes that are submitted outside of this process will become the sole property of NCS. If a candidate is hired outside of this process, no fee or payment will be given.

Work rights and background checks:

To be eligible for a position with us, applicants will need to have valid work rights for Australia and be willing to undergo a comprehensive background checking process, including probity and police checks