Engineering Manager - Fraud

The role

You will lead an inclusive engineering squad and own the end-to-end outcomes of the services it delivers and operates. You will work across Product, Risk, Compliance, Operations and Cyber Security to manage fraud risk, security, and delivery.

What you will do

• Establish and evolve the fraud engineering strategy, roadmap, capability and decision framework.
• Lead, coach and grow an inclusive, high-performing engineering team.
• Own the delivery and operation of fraud-prevention, detection, investigation and response capabilities.
• Embed quality, security, privacy, resilience and observability throughout the engineering lifecycle.
• Create clear and timely decision-making across technical, product, risk and operational teams.
• Set sustainable technical direction using data, engineering and AI-assisted practices.
• Use balanced measures to guide priorities and investment.
• Influence enterprise fraud technology direction, investment and operating-model decisions.

Required qualifications

• Experience leading software engineering teams and growing people, capability and autonomy.
• A record of delivering and operating secure, reliable and scalable products, platforms or services.
• Experience establishing clear service ownership, engineering standards and operational accountability.
• Strong understanding of contemporary engineering practices, including automated testing, observability, security, resilience and continuous delivery.
• Sound judgement when balancing customer experience, risk, speed, reliability and cost.
• The ability to establish direction and create clarity in complex or ambiguous environments.
• Experience leading across technical and non-technical disciplines and communicating to senior stakeholders.
• A willingness to identify and escalate material risks early.
• A thoughtful approach to AI-assisted engineering or analytics.

Nice to have

• Expertise in fraud prevention, scams, transaction monitoring, financial crime or a related customer-protection domain.
• Experience in cyber security, trust and safety, risk technology, behavioural analytics or operational resilience.
• Experience in financial services, wealth management or another regulated environment.
• Experience in establishing a new engineering team, platform or capability.

Benefits

• Paid parental leave
• Fully funded school holiday program
• CU Health (virtual healthcare)
• Income protection
• Flu shots
• Wellness weeks
• Retail discounts
• Financial wellbeing services
• Social events, trivia nights, and corporate sports
• Employee Resource Groups
• Paid volunteering
• End-of-trip amenities and daily breakfast in Melbourne

About the company

Netwealth is an innovative FinTech business shaping the future of wealth in Australia. The company values authenticity, agility, and an inclusive environment.