Senior IT Leadership Role

7 days ago


Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Datacom Full time
About the Opportunity

We are seeking a highly experienced and skilled leader to drive business growth, innovation, and commercial success within our Azure-based Software Development practice. As the Practice Manager, you will be responsible for building a robust business pipeline, cultivating a high-performing team, establishing strategic customer relationships, and leveraging your deep technical expertise and commercial acumen to develop, position, and sell our Azure Software Development services.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Pre-Sales & Customer Engagement: Provide expert support to our sales and new business teams by engaging directly with customers to address their complex Azure development challenges.
  • Service Champion: Champion our Azure Software Development products and services, leveraging customer relationships to generate opportunities for the broader Digital Engineering Service Line.
  • Azure Expertise & Innovation: Maintain up-to-date knowledge of the state-of-the-art in Azure technologies and software development practices, using these insights to continuously evolve our local offerings.
  • Strategic Growth: Collaborate with the wider Development practice management team to define and execute a comprehensive growth strategy for the Azure Software Development practice.
  • Customer Workshops & Value Delivery: Design, facilitate, and improve workshops with customers to drive value throughout the software development lifecycle and deliver tangible outcomes for projects.
  • Team Leadership & Mentorship: Lead and develop a high-performing team, mentoring Team Leads and Senior Azure Developers, fostering a strong culture focused on customer-centricity, collaboration, and team growth.
  • Operational Management: Assist with workforce planning and technical hiring decisions within the Azure Software Development practice, with support from your peers.
  • Delivery Leadership: Provide hands-on delivery leadership across the software development lifecycle, working closely with Datacom and customer teams, with strong support from the delivery practice.
  • Partner Relationships: Build and maintain strong relationships with relevant Azure partners.
  • Consulting & Delivery: Occasionally perform billable work as a Lead Azure Consultant, contributing to workshops or software delivery projects as required.

Requirements:

  • Management or equivalent leadership experience of technology teams, particularly in Azure environments.
  • Proven experience managing and leading IT professionals and leaders, with a focus on Azure development.
  • Demonstrated expertise in managing client relationships, specifically within Azure projects.
  • Understanding of budgeting and time and resource constraints in Azure-based projects.
  • Deep understanding of the Digital Product Lifecycle and software delivery, with a strong emphasis on Azure cloud services.
  • The ability to assess clients' needs, identify customer requirements, and align them with business outcomes using Azure solutions.
  • Experience leading teams to develop cohesive product designs, roadmaps, technical architecture, and estimates within the Azure ecosystem.
  • Strong leadership, management, and organizational skills.
  • Demonstrated experience providing thought leadership in Azure Software Development with enterprise clients is a bonus.
  • Demonstrated expertise in agile and product development methodologies and practices, particularly in Azure environments.
  • Demonstrated expertise in a variety of application design methodologies and practices for medium to large enterprises, with a focus on Azure cloud-native development.
  • Excellent influencing, interpersonal, and communication skills to engage senior leaders and technical specialists, and coordinate complex initiatives across multiple teams.

About Us

Datacom is Australasia's largest homegrown technology services business, connecting people and technology to solve challenges, create opportunities, and discover new possibilities for communities we live in. We have extensive expertise in operating data centers, providing IT services, software engineering, and application management, as well as payroll and customer service design and operations.

We are committed to hiring, developing, and promoting the best talent from a diverse range of backgrounds. Our vision and values are centered around our people, guiding us to make what's best for staff, customers, and communities. With a long list of significant clients, we continue to grow and expand into new regions.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to be part of something new, getting on from the ground floor and benefiting from all the upside of a start-up initiative with the security of a large multinational.



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