Head of Engineering - Enterprise

We’re MYOB, a business management platform designed to unleash the potential of businesses across Australia and New Zealand! As the #originalstartup, our roots are in finance and accounting software, but today we are so much more. We help our Aussie and Kiwi customers unleash their full potential, giving them the tools to Start, Survive and Succeed: all in the one place.

We’re always on the hunt for those who bring a different perspective, diversity of thought and the drive to make our culture even better. Take your career to a new dimension at MYOB. 

About the Team

Our Tech team are true heroes. They’ve taken our legacy success and transformed it into an extraordinary SaaS platform to support SME and Enterprise businesses in ways they never knew they needed. By joining the Tech team, you’ll be an integral part of building our all-in-one business management platform.

The Opportunity

As the Head of Engineering in Enterprise at MYOB, you will lead teams of teams to achieve outstanding results for one of our key growth areas of MYOB.

The successful candidate will join MYOB as a critical enabler in realizing and driving the Enterprise strategy, evolving our technology landscape and practices to drive a transformation towards a product-led organization.

As part of MYOB's Leadership Team, you will play a pivotal part in leading and crafting the Enterprise business product by creating and empowering agile teams and owning the technology direction for the product.

You will be responsible for implementing modern architecture and engineering practices that deliver outstanding value to our Enterprise customers, aligning with business objectives to deliver a high-performing and scalable SaaS solution.

What you will bring

- Extensive experience in creating and leading high-performing teams responsible for designing, developing, testing, deploying, and operating CRM/ERP platforms and cloud-hosted products and services.

- Your historical background as an engineer or architect will be critical in leading this team of Engineering Managers and Principal engineers and working with a peer group of product and design teams to lead this key growth platform.

- Extensive experience leading AWS cloud capabilities and implementing cloud-based solutions.

- Experience in running or driving support functions for customer-facing products

- Direct experience with establishing a mature agile way of working and engineering culture in newly established teams;

- Ability to influence, and build trusting and significant relationships with peers, team members, executive partners and suppliers;

- Experience working in complex system architectures, designing scalable and robust systems, for both web and client technology;

- Proven history of implementing major technology initiatives. Effective enterprise coaching skills, understanding what teams need for high engagement and high performance to deliver customer outcomes.

- Demonstrated leadership skills including coaching/mentoring, critical thinking, facilitation, change leadership, and team development with a focus on adopting our values;

- Ability to attract and retain talent and to inspire the team

Our Culture & Benefits 

Our values have stood the test of time. If you want to work and collaborate where opinions are valued, and your ideas can make a difference, come to a place where Your Work Matters.  

🎥 See what it's like to work at MYOB and what we're all about.

🎯 Do your best work in a flexible work environment, right down to financial assistance to set up your home office…it’s called Flexperience, and it’s designed by you and your team! 

🎯 Our partnership with Smiling Mind helps support the wellbeing of our team members and customers 

🎯 Drive your own learning via conferences, in-house training, LinkedIn Learning, study assistance and a strong focus on leaders creating a learning environment 

🎯 A multitude of leave options including up to an additional four weeks of purchased leave, generous parental leave, domestic violence leave, transgender leave, volunteer leave, study leave, plus more! 

🎯 Communities built around ‘Wellness’, ‘Belonging’ and the ‘Planet’ where you can make a meaningful contribution 

🎯 Access to best-in-class discounts and vouchers from leading retailers, and a lot more. 

We are proud to be a Circle Back Initiative Employer and we commit to responding to every applicant.  

MYOB are an equal opportunity employer and we champion diversity. Don’t meet every single requirement of this role? Still apply!  Research tells us that that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply unless they meet every single requirement.  At MYOB we believe that the right hire is someone who makes an addition to our culture, rather than someone who fits in and conforms to our status quo. Moving to ‘Culture Add’ means adding team members who not only value MYOBs standards and workplace culture, but also bring an aspect of diversity that positively contributes to MYOB.  So, if you’re excited about this role, or about MYOB, we’d still love to hear from you!