Technical Lead - South Bank, QLD

At Flight Centre Travel Group (FCTG) our purpose is to 'open up the world for those who want to see'. Every day, we give people all around the world the opportunity to experience something amazing – travel!  

As a Technical Lead, you will own the technical delivery of a squad, partnering with product owners, engineers, and stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure solutions that drive real business outcomes. You'll navigate complex technical challenges, influence architectural direction, and help build a high-performing engineering culture.

Every Flight Centre Corporate booking ends the same way: a ticket in a traveller's hands, and our team owns the service that makes that happen. Today it covers Australian bookings, and we're now taking it global, so any booking, anywhere in the world, can be ticketed through a single service. Whether a customer books a flight themselves online or a Travel Consultant builds it by hand and issues it with a click, it all runs through what we build, so reliability is the job. You'll help shape a platform that's growing from a national service into a worldwide one, with real impact on every traveller we serve.

Day to day:

• Lead large, complex software initiatives from design through to delivery
• Own the technical delivery and engineering direction of your squad
• Partner with product owners, engineers, and stakeholders to deliver business-driven solutions
• Shape solution architecture while balancing quality, security, performance, and cost
• Raise engineering standards through CI/CD, TDD, infrastructure as code, and automated testing
• Maintain system reliability using observability, monitoring, and blameless post-incident reviews
• Apply cloud best practices across governance, performance, and cost management
• Explore and introduce proven emerging technologies, including AI-assisted development practices
• Lead design, code, and architecture reviews that improve quality and consistency
• Mentor and coach engineers while supporting hiring, onboarding, and capability development
• Manage technical debt, contribute to squad roadmaps, and coordinate releases across dependent teams

You'll be perfect for the role if you have:

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including senior engineering or tech lead responsibilities
• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• Proven experience delivering scalable, high-performance cloud-based systems and leading complex projects with ambiguous requirements
• Strong expertise in software architecture, engineering quality, automated testing, DevOps practices, and system integration
• Hands-on experience with cloud technologies, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and operational excellence practices
• Experience integrating with multiple vendors, third-party platforms, and complex enterprise systems
• A track record of leading modernisation or migration initiatives while balancing delivery priorities and long-term technical strategy
• Exceptional communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and develop high-performing engineers

What you will enjoy:

🙋🏾‍♀️Culture: you will be employed by an inclusive company that offers a team culture like no other in the industry - Flight Centre Travel Group Australia is proud to be a certified Great Place to Work® Australia New Zealand Pty Ltd

👐🏽 Our People: FCTG is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourage all suitably qualified applicants to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People and people from racial, ethnic, or ethno-religious minority groups and people with disability 

🎉Development: Individualised, ongoing Learning & Development via communities of practice. Dedicated time to learn, share and collaborate skills, interests and goals, as well as contribute your own expertise and insights of others.

🔧Access to 'LinkedIn Learning' for ongoing skills development: over 24,500 courses in over 20 languages

🏆Exclusive Staff Discounts: Accessible via our employee-only portal with 350+ of Australia’s leading retailers, health and wellness discounts, financial planning advice, employee share plan and more

🌏Travel Discounts: Including family and friends - flights, hotels, tours, cruises, travel insurance and more

💎Brightness of Future: Career opportunities in a network of brands and businesses across the globe - we promote from within 

🥦Corporate Health Discounts: Access exclusive discounts on health insurance plans for you and your family with our partner, BUPA, access to internal gym

🌞Mental Health: Support and Employee Assistance Program for staff and family

🎉Social: Regular awards nights, social team-building and industry events, with the opportunity to attend global conferences (Bangkok in 2026) 

🙏🏼 Giving Back: Corporate Social Responsibility program supporting nominated charities through Workplace Giving, volunteering and fundraising; paid parental and volunteer leave

💚Sustainability: The protection of our environment is essential to the future of tourism, as a leading travel group, we have made efforts to affect positive change to the environment

💛 Be part of a workplace committed to reconciliation through our Reconciliation Action Plan - we proudly support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander inclusion, cultural safety, and dedicated cultural leave

Irreverence. Ownership. Egalitarianism. 

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