Engineering Lead Rust - NCS

At NCS Australia, we are more than a technology services company-we are a team of innovators, problem-solvers, and creators shaping the future. With a strong presence across the APAC region, we partner with government and enterprise organisations to tackle complex challenges and deliver solutions that drive real, lasting impact.

We are passionate about unlocking value through technology. By focusing on people, committing to quality, and challenging traditional thinking, we believe technology services can be done better. Our team brings this to life by advising, transforming, and managing technology to help our clients and communities thrive.

We love big ideas and bold thinkers. Bring your ambition and your creativity-together, we will turn them into extraordinary opportunities. Ready to make tomorrow with us? Explore our opportunities and join a team that is redefining what's possible.

• Partner with Product Managers and Designers to understand customer needs, shape technical solutions, and lead an Agile team to deliver roadmap priorities and sprint outcomes.
• Provide technical leadership across architecture, software design, security, performance, scalability, reliability, and engineering best practices.
• Lead and contribute to the development, testing, deployment, and support of cloud-native applications, microservices, APIs, platforms, and user interfaces.
• Champion Agile, DevOps, SRE, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, code reviews, automated testing, and secure software development practices.
• Collaborate with Engineering Leads, Architects, and Product teams to drive technology, process, tooling, and platform improvements.
• Support technical decision-making, technology selection, architecture governance, and alignment with engineering standards and reference architectures.
• Oversee platform and cloud engineering activities, including infrastructure automation, containerisation, deployment pipelines, monitoring, observability, and operational excellence.
• Ensure delivery of secure, scalable, resilient, and maintainable solutions that meet customer and business objectives.
• Support product deployments, customer implementations, technical escalations, training, and ongoing operational support.
• Mentor and coach engineers, promote knowledge sharing, and foster a high-performing, collaborative engineering culture.
• Drive continuous improvement across people, processes, technology, and delivery, while documenting and communicating outcomes to enable repeatable and sustainable practices.
• Build strong stakeholder relationships and role model company values across all interactions.
• Proven experience leading or mentoring engineers within Agile software development teams.
• Strong software engineering background with hands-on experience in Rust and exposure to Python and/or C++.