Development Manager (Agile)

Job No: A12

Location: Queens Road, Melbourne

The Internet is Changing

Be a part of the revolution with one of Australia’s fastest growing technology organisations.

AusRegistry Group is a Melbourne based organisation driving innovation in the global domain name industry. We are a market leader in our field and have several major government and corporate clients within Australia, Africa and the Middle East. In the Australian market we are the exclusive operator of the .com.au Domain Name Registry and are rapidly expanding our business to attack a unique revolution in the Internet space.

We can assure you that you won’t be bored as our team works to an XP Agile methodology and has a work-hard /play-hard approach which we believe is part of our successful culture that rewards innovative and professional people with exciting opportunities.

The Position

As the successful candidate, you will be leading our Development Team (20 plus employees strong, including Business Analysts, Developers and Testers) in the delivery of leading edge products.

The AusRegistry Development Team utilises processes based on the Agile methodology. The Development Manager is expected to be extremely knowledgeable in the implementation of Agile methods, including possible shortcomings, and be prepared to be flexible enough to adapt the core Agile approaches as required to meet the business objectives. The Development Manager should also have a broad understanding of other Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) models and know when to apply other methods to achieve the desired outcomes.

The Development Manager is expected to be extremely well organised, good at dealing with people with varying personality traits, able to work effectively with people to achieve objectives, have strong project management and reporting skills and be prepared to take responsibility and ownership for managing the Development Team.

To be effective in this role the Development Manager must be able to manage and promote relationships with key stakeholders.

What is in it for you?

Firstly, you get to work with an organisation that is continually growing, delivering results that will leave a lasting impression on our clients and indeed the Internet forever. We are a global leader in our industry and you will be joining an organisation that continues to push the boundaries of innovation and achievement.

Secondly, we offer the ability to join a team that rewards innovative and professional people with exciting opportunities, self-fulfilment and good times.

Skills and Experience

• A relevant degree in software development
• 3 years of experience as a Development Manager in an organisation using Agile software development techniques
• Extensive experience and knowledge of;
  • Agile leadership and coaching
  • People management
  • Software requirements management
  • Software quality assurance and control
  • software development practices and standards
  • software configuration management
• Experience developing software using;
  
  • Java technologies
  • Design patterns
  • Continuous integration, including automated
  1. Builds
  2. Unit testing
  3. Regression testing
  4. Performance Testing
  5. Security and accessibility testing (is a plus)

• Experience using tools such as:
• • Eclipse
  • Ant and Maven
  • Mingle
  • Selenium
  • Subversion
  • Jenkins

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