Cricket Australia
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Posted: 30 September 2021
Link to Apply: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2739581736/
About the job
- Permanent role
- Make an impact in a leading sporting organisation
- Up to 5 extra days off a year
Cricket has been Australia’s favourite sport for over a century now.And as the central administrative body for the great game, it’s the people who work with us here at Cricket Australia who make that happen.
We’re over 100 years old now – and still not out!As we keep delivering cricket content to millions of fans around the country and globally, we’ve never been prouder of the role we play in bringing communities together.
Cricket has embarked on a digital transformation, unlocking value and creating delightful experiences for our fans, participants and employees.
Leveraging our deep partnership with Microsoft we are transforming how the business of Cricket is done, across Cricket Australia and our 8 state and territory associations.
You can play your part too.
Reporting to the Principle Engineer, in this role you will be responsible for delivering an engaging user experience across Cricket Australia’s suite of digital products, from website and mobile applications.
As a leader and early adopter in digital transformation, this is an amazing opportunity for a motivated technology professional to join a purpose driven organization where they can further their craftsmanship and help mentor and develop the skills of others. Uniting and inspiring communities through Cricket is our culture, and we’ve never been prouder of the role our people play in making Cricket a sport for all Australians.
About The Role
We are looking for someone who is passionate about the needs of our fans, participants and volunteers, who is eager to use technology to deliver innovative and engaging experiences for Cricket stakeholders. You will be working within a team that is responsible for nurturing a set of products that includes iterating ideas based on insights, and supporting in production.
Specifically, You Will Be Responsible For
- Supporting the delivery of outstanding solutions that address Australian Cricket’s needs;
- Working with team members and our partners on delivering new experiences in the digital products that your team is responsible for;
- Contributing to the development practice at Cricket Australia to ensure we continually improve our engineering standards;
- Break down barriers within the team, to ensure everyone is working together and not in isolation;
- Working with the team and contributing towards our shared goal of continuous delivery;
- Innovating and enhancing current business solutions, and recognising the areas of the systems that require changes;
- Providing technical leadership when working on projects following modern day development practices, and ensuring technology needs are balanced with the outcome objectives.
About You
To succeed in this role, you will have:
Essential
- Bachelor of Science (Software/Systems Engineering/Infrastructure).
- 5+ years’ experience in software development.
- Strong experience in HTML5, CSS3, ES6, JS frameworks (React is a must), Node/Express and related tooling system.
- Robust understanding of responsive design, browser behaviour and compatibility.
- Knowledge of optimisation techniques to improve client-side performance, good practices and industry standards.
- Experienced in developing with common open APIs such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter.
- Ability to help set up and configure local development environments including exposure to build systems such as Gulp, Grunt or Webpack.
- Knowledge of SMACSS, OOCSS or BEM concepts.
- Experience with source control (trunk based development preferable) and branch strategies preferably GIT version control system.
- Experience writing unit tests / integration test suites using libraries like JEST/ react-testing-library.
- Skills in modern software development techniques such as continuous delivery, test driven development, pair programming, etc.
- Cloud technology experience (Azure preferable).
- A desire to share knowledge and to mentor others.
- Ability to influence and negotiate.
- Strong written and verbal communications skills.
Sound like you? Let’s do this!
Cricket’s a sport for all Australians and our workplace reflects that.Your age, gender, sexual orientation, disability or religion won’t impact whether or not you’re part of the team.It’s your drive to do great work that’ll help you shine.At Cricket we are committed to providing a safe environment for everyone involved in our sport including children.
We work flexibly and offer extensive employee benefits including a range of discounts from fashion and travel to groceries and electronics! Salary packaging options and discounts with our corporate partners.We also have an extra 5 days off a year!
If you want to learn more about how we play then apply now – we are looking forward to meeting you!
Please submit your resume & cover letter outlining your experience meeting the key criteria by 5pm on Thursday 14th October 2021.
