Company Description
Nine is Australia’s largest locally owned media company – the home of Australia’s most trusted and loved brands spanning News, Sport, Lifestyle, and Entertainment. We pride ourselves on creating the best content, accessed by consumers when and how they want – across Publishing, Broadcasting and Digital.
Nine’s assets include the 9Network, major mastheads such as The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian Financial Review, radio stations 2GB, 3AW, 4BC and 6PR, digital properties such as nine.com.au, 9Now, 9Honey, Pedestrian.TV, Drive, subscription video platform Stan and a majority investment in Domain Group
Job Description
The Commercial Products team is responsible for managing a fleet of custom-built systems that are essential to the success of our Sales Operations, Traffic, Finance, and Presentation teams. These systems are integral for managing ad sales and revenue across our linear broadcast schedules, ensuring smooth operation and efficiency.
We are seeking a Senior Engineer / Technical Lead to join our team, someone who can drive both technical excellence and leadership. This role combines deep technical expertise with the ability to guide and mentor a team, ensuring the success of complex integrations and scalable solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
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Technical Design: Design changes to the application responsible for all of Nine’s broadcast TV, including coordinating with other Nine teams and external vendors.
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Development: Maintain, enhance and modernise applications
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Test: Maintain a high level of code coverage by writing unit and integration tests for changes. Aiding QAs by peer-testing changes.
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Lead Code Reviews & Best Practices: Guide and collaborate with fellow developers on the team, reviewing code to ensure technical quality, consistency, and adherence to best practices. Promote a culture of excellence across integrations and system designs.
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Security & Performance: Champion security best practices throughout the development process and ensure that all systems are optimized for performance and scalability.
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System Architecture & Documentation: Oversee the development of system architecture and ensure that comprehensive, up-to-date documentation is maintained for future reference and scalability.
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Mentorship & Team Leadership: Provide technical leadership, mentoring engineers on best practices. Lead by example, helping junior engineers grow their technical expertise and guiding the team through complex problem-solving scenarios.
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Agile Leadership & Team Collaboration: Actively participate in Agile ceremonies and facilitate team collaboration, ensuring smooth workflows, iterative progress, and alignment with project goals.
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Database Expertise: Leverage strong database knowledge to write optimized, performant queries and ensure systems scale effectively as the business grows.
Qualifications
Experience: You are a senior engineer with proven experience in complex, large-scale systems and have demonstrated the ability to lead technical initiatives. You are comfortable navigating legacy systems while driving continuous improvement and innovation.
Skills:
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Good communication skills - the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences
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Development Frameworks: Expert-level proficiency with .NET Framework, .NET Core, and SQL Server.
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Experience developing APIs and Integrations with other applications. Bonus points if you’ve used WCF
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Knowledge of good UI design principles. Bonus points if you’ve used WPF.
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Experience designing and developing systems interacting with Cloud platforms. Bonus points if you’ve used AWS.
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DevOps: Knowledge of and experience with DevOps practices and principles.
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Agile: Strong understanding of Agile principles and practices with experience using them in previous teams.
Additional Information
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:
At Nine, we are committed to fostering a workforce that embraces all aspects of diversity and inclusion and where practices are equitable to ensure our people experience a sense of belonging. From day one, you'll be encouraged to bring your whole self to work and will be supported to perform at your best. Should you require any adjustments to the recruitment process in order to equitably participate, we encourage you to advise us at the time of application.
We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.
Disclaimer: We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes and are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes
