Engineering Lead

You’re only human.

It’s a strange thing to say, because us humans are capable of incredible things. And at Medibank, we know our greatest potential lies in the people who work with us.

We strive to make real, fundamental change, driven by a simple purpose: to create the best health and wellbeing for all of Australia.

Are you a passionate engineering leader who enjoys building high-performing teams and delivering impactful digital solutions? We're looking for an experienced Engineering Lead to lead a multidisciplinary engineering team and drive technical excellence across our digital platforms.

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you'll combine people leadership with hands-on technical guidance, helping teams deliver scalable, secure, and customer-focused solutions while fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead, coach and develop a team of engineers across multiple disciplines.

Drive recruitment, performance management, mentoring and career development.

Provide technical leadership across software design, development, testing and deployment.

Partner with Product, Architecture and Engineering stakeholders to deliver business outcomes.

Champion engineering best practices including CI/CD, DevSecOps, automation and quality engineering.

Support the stability, availability and continuous improvement of digital platforms.

Foster collaboration, knowledge sharing and innovation across engineering teams.

About You:

Essential Experience

Extensive experience leading software design, development and delivery initiatives.

Proven people leadership experience, including coaching, mentoring and developing engineers.

Strong experience working within Agile delivery environments (Scrum, Kanban or SAFe).

Experience leading geographically distributed teams.

Strong understanding of software engineering principles, architecture patterns and delivery practices.

Solid experience with:

Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)

ReactJS, including SSR and CSR architecture patterns

RESTful APIs and microservices

Git, Jira and Confluence

CI/CD tools including GitHub Actions and Jenkins

Trunk-Based Development and GitFlow

Test-Driven Development (TDD)

Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

Nice to Have

AWS

Java, Spring Boot and JMS

Experience leading distributed or geographically diverse teams

Imagine working with us

We understand that work means different things to everyone... We know happy, healthy people make great teams, and great teams put more heart into each customer and patient interaction. And that’s why we’re reinventing work.

Imagine a workplace that helps you and your family thrive. Where connection, personal development and health and wellbeing are front of mind. To learn more about our benefits go to https://careers.medibank.com.au/culture/rewards-benefits/

For you, work should help you Live Better. It should bring you fulfillment and joy. And with Medibank, it could.

Inclusion and Accessibility

We believe in everyone's potential and strive to make Medibank inclusive for all because different perspectives make us better. We encourage applications from everyone, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, neurodivergent candidates, LGBTQIA+ community including transgender and gender diverse candidates and candidates with a disability.

If you need adjustments or alternative formats at any stage of the recruitment or employment journey, we’re here to help. You can let us know directly in the application form, or if you’d prefer to discuss before applying, please reach out to us careers@medibank.com.au or (03) 8622 5666. Learn more about our commitments and employee stories at https://careers.medibank.com.au/diversity-inclusion/(please copy and paste the URL onto your browser)

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