.Net Practice Manager

About the role

The .NET Practice Manager is responsible for leading and evolving VicRoads' .NET engineering capability across digital platforms and services, ensuring the delivery, hosting, and ongoing operation of secure, scalable, and high-performing applications within AWS environments. This role combines strategic leadership, technical governance, and delivery accountability, overseeing end-to-end engineering outcomes including solution design, coding standards, deployment practices, and operational excellence. The position leads multiple engineering teams through subordinate leads, fostering a strong engineering culture, driving consistent ways of working, and ensuring alignment between business objectives, technology strategy, and customer outcomes. Working closely with Architecture, Security, DevOps, and Product teams, the .NET Practice Manager ensures solutions are fit-for-purpose, aligned to enterprise standards, and optimised for performance, resilience, and maintainability. . Lead .Net Engineer Practice: Define and govern engineering standards, patterns, and best practices across all .NET applications, ensuring consistency, quality, and scalability across teams. Delivery and Solution Ownership: Oversee end-to-end delivery of .NET solutions, including solution design, development, and implementation, ensuring alignment with business priorities and enterprise architecture AWS Hosting and Operations: Own the hosting, operation, and reliability of applications within AWS, ensuring performance, resilience, security, and cost efficiency Engineering Quality and DevOps Practices: Establish and enforce coding standards, code review processes, and quality controls, while driving CI/CD, automation, and modern deployment practices People Leadership and Ways of Working: Lead and develop engineering leads and teams, embedding consistent Agile ways of working, building capability, and fostering a high-performing engineering culture Platform Governance, Stakeholder and Risk Management: Provide oversight of platform technologies, including Sitecore, while collaborating closely with Architecture, Security, and Product teams to ensure solutions are aligned and fit for purpose, and maintain compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory requirements while driving continuous improvement. About you You bring deep expertise in the .NET ecosystem, including .NET Core, ASP.NET, Web APIs, and modern application frameworks, along with a strong understanding of cloud-native design and development in AWS across compute, storage, networking, and managed services. You have proven experience designing and delivering scalable, resilient, and secure distributed systems, supported by strong capability in CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and automated deployment practices. Your knowledge extends to application monitoring, observability, service reliability, and operational support models, underpinned by a commitment to coding standards,