Job Description
The Technical Lead provides hands‐on technical leadership within agile delivery teams to ensure solutions are designed, developed, and delivered in alignment with enterprise architecture standards, engineering best practices, and operational requirements. The role guides technical implementation activities, supports engineering quality, and enables delivery teams to deliver secure, scalable, maintainable, and resilient solutions.
The Technical Lead acts as the primary technical authority within the Scrum team and works closely with architects, developers, DevOps engineers, Product Owners, and delivery stakeholders to ensure technical alignment across solution delivery activities. The role contributes to technical planning, risk management, architecture alignment, engineering governance, and continuous improvement initiatives.
The position requires strong technical expertise, leadership capability, and the ability to balance hands‐on engineering delivery with mentoring, coordination, and technical decision‐making responsibilities.
Applicant must already have Baseline security clearance or be eligible to obtain Baseline security clearance.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide technical leadership and guidance within agile delivery teams.
* Define and maintain technical design approaches aligned with enterprise standards.
* Collaborate with architects to ensure alignment with solution intent and architecture roadmaps.
* Lead technical planning activities during sprint and Program Increment planning.
* Identify, assess, and mitigate technical risks and implementation challenges.
* Ensure non‐functional requirements including performance, security, observability, and accessibility are addressed.
* Guide engineering teams on development standards, coding practices, and technical quality expectations.
* Support integration planning, deployment readiness, and operational supportability.
* Contribute to technical governance, peer reviews, and engineering assurance activities.
* Mentor developers and support capability uplift across delivery teams.
* Participate in technical communities, guilds, and continuous improvement initiatives.
* Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend engineering improvements where appropriate.
* Provide specialist technical leadership within delivery teams.
* Influence technical implementation and engineering practices.
* Perform complex engineering and design activities.
* Support technical governance and quality outcomes.
* Contribute to mentoring and capability development initiatives.
Qualifications
* Strong software engineering and solution delivery experience.
* Experience leading technical implementation activities within agile teams.
* Knowledge of enterprise architecture and engineering standards.
* Strong troubleshooting and technical problem‐solving capability.
* Experience mentoring developers and supporting engineering quality.
* Excellent communication and stakeholder collaboration skills.
* Must already have Baseline security clearance or be eligible to obtain Baseline security clearance.
Benefits
NCS Australia offers paid parental leave, initiatives focused on well‐being, discounted health insurance, discounts on various products and services, regular recognition and rewards for high performance, career development through Capability Fingerprint, industry and partner training programs, special interest groups, and an AI‐driven learning platform.
NCS Australia is an equal‐opportunity employer. We value and support our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, or age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community and we strongly encourage applications from Veterans, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community.
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