Head of Technology Chapter - Software and Quality Engineering

Qantas Airways
Adelaide
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Quality & Regulatory (Non-Software)Experience: 15+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Leadership","Coaching","Accountability","Systems thinking","Executive influence"]

Lead end-to-end software and quality engineering capability within Qantas’ Product Innovation Centre in Adelaide. You’ll set engineering strategy and technical standards, drive AI-native, AI-assisted and agentic development practices, and ensure consistent quality, scalability, and operational excellence across a distributed chapter structure. Partnering with the Senior Manager, Applied AI, you’ll co-lead an engineering transformation and provide hardline leadership to software and quality leaders aligned to product and platform squads.

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Head of Technology Chapter - Software and Quality Engineering

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Job Summary

Lead end-to-end software and quality engineering capability within Qantas’ Product Innovation Centre in Adelaide. You’ll set engineering strategy and technical standards, drive AI-native, AI-assisted and agentic development practices, and ensure consistent quality, scalability, and operational excellence across a distributed chapter structure. Partnering with the Senior Manager, Applied AI, you’ll co-lead an engineering transformation and provide hardline leadership to software and quality leaders aligned to product and platform squads.
Location: Adelaide
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time · Permanent
Job Function: Quality & Regulatory (Non-Software)
Seniority: Sr. Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead end-to-end engineering and quality engineering capability for the Product Innovation Centre, including Chapter Leads across mobile, web, backend & integration, and quality.
  • •Define engineering strategy and establish technical standards for consistent quality, scalability, and operational excellence.
  • •Drive adoption of modern software engineering and AI-native development practices across engineering teams.
  • •Co-lead AI-native engineering transformation with the Senior Manager, Applied AI, embedding and sustaining adoption through chapter leadership.
  • •Translate enterprise technology strategy into execution across a distributed chapter structure and sustain standards as the centre scales.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Parental Leave

Key Requirements

  • •15+ years in software engineering or technology roles, including 10+ years in senior engineering leadership across multiple teams or disciplines.
  • •Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent experience.
  • •Demonstrated hands-on fluency in AI-assisted and agentic engineering practice.
  • •Enterprise-level leadership across engineering and quality engineering capability, including strategic direction and leading leaders through coaching and accountability.
  • •Proven governance capability with enforcement authority across engineering, testing, security, reliability, and deployment.
Experience:15+ years
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology
Skills:LeadershipCoachingAccountabilitySystems thinkingExecutive influence
Languages:English (AU)
Tech Stack:AIAI-nativeAI-assistedAgentic engineeringTestingSecurityReliabilityDeployment

Company Brief

Qantas Airways
Australia’s flag carrier providing domestic, international and freight air services, operating Qantas, Jetstar and QantasLink brands, plus a loyalty business (Qantas Frequent Flyer) and aviation services.
Industry: Airlines
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Mascot, NSW, Australia
Founded: 1920
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