Introduction:
Who we are…
Founded in 2002, ELMO Software is the trusted provider of HR technology solutions to 2,000+ mid-sized organisations and more than one million end users across Australia and New Zealand. With a comprehensive suite of ISO-certified solutions that span the full employee lifecycle, ELMO Software is designed to scale as organisations grow. Flexible and configurable, ELMO’s one-stop HRIS fits to your specific needs and workflows. Through powerful technology, automation, data and analytics, ELMO Software empowers HR professionals to play an integral role in company decision making.
Life & Culture...
At ELMO you will be joining an epic team with the opportunity to make a big impact. We foster an authentic, collaborative, fun working environment and being an ELMOnian means you're part of an amazing team that will push you to grow, support you with challenges and allow you to shine. Some of our benefits include:
- Hybrid work set up
- Paid Parental leave - 12 weeks primary, 6 weeks secondary
- Birthday leave, YOU day each year, as well as connecting people leave (up to 2 weeks working from anywhere)
- Inhouse Learning and Development initiatives
- ELMO Social and Diversity clubs
- Wellbeing initiatives
- Mental Health/EAP programs
- Flare Benefits (great discounts, novated leasing, salary sacrifice)
Our values:
Reimagine What's Possible - We believe innovation is human at its core. By staying open, fearless, and adaptive, we continuously push boundaries - while keeping people at the heart of everything we do.
Obsess over Customers – Everything we do is designed to positively impact our customers.
Help Others Thrive - Be they colleagues, communities or customers, we champion ways to help others thrive.
Be Fearlessly Optimistic - We bring unwavering positivity to any challenge, as we know it will drive meaningful change.
Please note: Our internal Talent Acquisition team has got this covered, we’re not open to using an agency for this role.
Description:
Key Responsibilities:
The core responsibilities of the Technical Team Lead includes but is not limited to:
Architecture & Technical Direction
Owns technical architecture for their domain: data flow, API design, integration patterns, security model, infrastructure requirements.
Produces architecture decision records (ADRs) and API specifications.
Accountable for technical feasibility assessment of incoming requirements.
Owns the codification of business intent into technically precise, testable specifications in partnership with PO, PO provides business intent and domain knowledge; TTL and engineers codify it.
Decides whether the specification is precise enough for AI-directed build. If not, it goes back — either to the engineer for more precision or to the PO for more domain clarity.
Oversight and guidance for team architectural decisions.
Has DACIs approved by the Architecture Guild.
Responsible for the technical direction of their team's systems — identifies what needs to evolve and proposes the approach.
Owns tech debt prioritisation within their team; ensures adequate time is allocated.
Ensures technology choices within their team align with architectural standards.
AI Orchestration Planning
Owns the AI orchestration plan for each piece of work: which components in parallel, what context AI agents need, what guardrails required.
Produces the agent orchestration brief that engineers execute against.
Accountable for the effectiveness of AI-directed delivery within their domain.
Owns prompt library curation for their domain.
Build Oversight & Code Quality
Accountable for all PRs being reviewed and approved before merge, AI-generated and human-written, same standard.
Accountable for all code meeting ELMO's coding, security, and architectural standards.
Owns automated quality gates: linting, SAST/DAST, unit test coverage gates must pass before merge.
Accountable for correctness of implementation against requirements and architecture.
Custodian of team codebase: consistent production of high-quality code and associated metrics.
Accountable for security vulnerability rate at team level, zero critical/high vulnerabilities in production from code delivered under this TTL's oversight.
Testing & Validation Oversight
Accountable for test coverage completeness and quality across the team.
Ensures automated security scanning runs in CI/CD pipeline.
Validates non-functional requirements: performance under load, error handling robustness, observability and logging, infrastructure readiness.
Release Safety & Deployment
Accountable for deployment safety and rollback capability.
Owns feature flag strategy: all new features deploy dark, activated via progressive rollout.
Owns go/no-go decision for progressive rollout (technical quality).
Accountable for post-deployment health: error rate monitoring, performance baseline comparison, customer impact assessment within 24 hours.
People Management
Primary manager for engineers in their team.
Owns day-to-day performance management: expectations, feedback, coaching.
Primary go-to person for team questions; primary resolver of blockers and dependencies.
Conducts regular 1:1s with direct reports.
Manages probation and performance improvement in partnership with EM and HR.
Identifies and supports promotion candidates.
Leads recruiting for their team; owns interview process for team-level hires.
Maintains cross-training and knowledge overlap within their team; ensures no single points
Skills and Experiences:
ELMO Software Pty Ltd is an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to join our team. We are also committed to advancing reconciliation at ELMO through our Reflect Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP). At ELMO, we are passionate about empowering HR with responsible, secure and safe AI, aiming to be among the first in Australia and New Zealand to achieve ISO 42001:2023 certification. Handling sensitive employee data necessitates strict adherence to our ISO 27001:2022 Certified security policies, making data privacy and security paramount in every role.
