About the Role
Lead and drive technology and engineering standards while driving AI adoption within Qantas' new Product Innovation Centre in Adelaide – a hub that will transform how Qantas designs, builds and delivers digital experiences for millions of customers. This full-time, permanent role is based at the Adelaide Head Office and offers a fantastic opportunity to work across cross-functional teams to uplift Qantas' software engineering and quality engineering capability.
The Product Innovation Centre represents a shift to a product-led operating model – moving away from traditional project-based IT delivery toward empowered, cross-functional product teams that own outcomes end-to-end.
The Head of Engineering Chapter is accountable for the end-to-end engineering and quality engineering capability across the Product Innovation Centre, leading Chapter Leads for Mobile Engineering, Web Engineering, Backend & Integration Engineering, and Quality Engineering.
You'll Have
- 15+ years in software engineering or technology roles, including 10+ years in senior engineering leadership across multiple teams or disciplines
- Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent experience
- Demonstrated hands-on fluency in AI-assisted and agentic engineering practice
- Enterprise-level leadership across engineering and quality engineering capability, including strategic direction setting and leading leaders through coaching and accountability
- Capability strategy design and maturity uplift at scale, including workforce planning across engineering and quality disciplines
- Governance of enterprise engineering standards across engineering, testing, security, reliability and deployment, with genuine enforcement authority
- Systems thinking across complex technology environments, with ownership of technical debt strategy and systemic risk management
- Proven ability to align Engineering, Quality and other functions across the organisation
- Locations
- Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Timezones
- Worldwide
- Education
- bachelor degree
- Experience
- 15+ years