• Career opportunity with Australia’s largest private healthcare provider
• 12-Month Contract - Full Time
• Sydney, Perth, Brisbane, or Melbourne location

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and experienced Software Development Manager to join our Corporate Head Office on a 12-month contract covering maternity leave.

In this pivotal role, you will lead our application development and integration teams, driving a cloud-first approach and the implementation of modern, scalable solutions. Your technical leadership and strategic vision will be essential in delivering high-quality, innovative software products to our clients and end-users.

The Role

The Software Development Manager will be responsible for overseeing the development of robust and performant software leveraging cloud-native technologies, microservices architecture, and API-first principles.

You will lead the team responsible for the implementation, support, and maintenance of applications and their integration points across the enterprise. You will mentor your team to build in-house expertise in these modern technologies, ensuring Ramsay Health Care (RHC) has the capability to deliver cutting-edge digital solutions.

Key Role Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the application development and integration teams, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement, with a focus on cloud-first development.
• Drive the adoption of microservices architecture and API-first design patterns, ensuring scalable and maintainable solutions.
• Oversee the design, development, and deployment of API services, ensuring seamless integration across the RHC ecosystem.
• Champion a cloud-first mindset across the team, ensuring applications are designed and deployed optimally for cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP).
• Participate in the wider Development Operations leadership team to shape the future of development at RHC, with a strong focus on cloud-native technologies and services.
• Ensure we mitigate key person dependencies and build deep in-house skills in critical technologies, specifically within the cloud, microservices and API domains.
• Work closely with technology partners to scale development capacity and enhance our capabilities.
• Support incident resolution within agreed timeframes and lead thorough post-incident reviews to drive continuous improvement in the team and wider technology function.
• Drive maintainability and the adoption of system telemetry into all services to ensure stable solutions.
• Assist in the transformation of our technology estate whilst ensuring existing solutions are modernised or replaced. Ensuring core staff transition to delivering new solutions.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Cloud-Native Development Expertise: A strong background in cloud-native application development, with deep understanding of cloud platforms, microservices architecture, and API design.
• Microservices and API Focus: Proven experience in designing, developing, and deploying microservices and RESTful APIs.
• Technical Leadership: Proven ability to lead, mentor, and motivate software development teams, promoting collaboration and high performance.
• Problem-Solving and Decision-Making: Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills to address complex technical challenges and make well-informed decisions.
• Communication and Collaboration: Excellent communication skills to effectively convey technical information, provide status updates to stakeholders, and facilitate productive team discussions.
• Strategic Mindset: The ability to align software development efforts with the company’s strategic goals, prioritise workloads effectively, and drive innovation.
• Organisational and Time Management Skills: Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects, deadlines and priorities.

Desirable Criteria:

• Agile and Scrum Mastery: In-depth experience with Agile methodologies, Scrum, or other iterative development practices.
• Healthcare industry experience: experience working in the healthcare industry, particularly experience using FHIR is desirable.
• Architecture and Design Expertise: Proven experience in designing scalable and maintainable software systems, with a focus on cloud-based architecture and microservices.
• API Gateway experience: Experience of implementing API gateways to support the various internal and external services, with a focus on security best practices.
• Integration technologies: Knowledge of message queues and other integration technologies to build robust and scalable applications.
• DevOps Practices: Understanding of DevOps principles, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tools to streamline development and deployment.
• Budget and Resource Management: Experience in budget and resource management, and capacity planning to optimise team productivity.
• Market Awareness: Keen interest in industry trends, emerging technologies, and competitive landscapes, to inform strategic decisions and drive innovation.
• Certifications: Relevant cloud certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Google Professional Cloud Architect are advantageous.

This role is offered on a 12-month contract basis, and the salary will be commensurate with experience.

Working with us

Ramsay Health Care, a global operator of private hospitals and primary care clinics with over 70 Australian sites employing over 30,000 people. We have been focused on delivering high-quality patient care and practising the Ramsay Way philosophy of ‘People Caring for People’ since 1964.

We believe in a bright future for our company and for every one of our employees – our wellbeing initiatives and learning and development programs have seen us grow as an industry leader and sought after employer.

To Apply

All applications must be lodged online and should include your CV, Cover Letter and 2 work related references. Applications made by recruitment agencies will not be considered.

For enquiries only, please contact knightjessica@ramsayhealth.com.au

Ramsay Health Care is committed to Child Safety.  Details of our commitment are set out in our Code of Conduct, available at www.ramsayhealth.com