Manager Technology - Melbourne, Australia - Department of Education

Department of Education

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Melbourne, Australia

1 week ago

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Olivia Brown

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Description

Location:
Melbourne | CBD

Job type:
Full time / Ongoing

Organisation:
Department of Education

Salary:
$129,379 - $173,138

Occupation:
Other

Reference:
VG/DE/FPIS/TBC006

About the Department

The role of the Department of Education is to support Victorians to build prosperous, socially engaged, happy and healthy lives.

It does this by supporting lifelong learning and healthy development, strengthening families and helping to equip people with the skills and knowledge for a 21st century economy and society.

About the Division

The Information Management and Technology Division (IMTD) guides the departments' digital capability and is leading digital transformation for the department including Victorian government schools.

The Division architects, manages and supports the largest technology network in Victoria, supporting a user base of approximately 750,000 staff and students.

IMTD provides innovation and leadership in the transformation and management of the department's digital capability through the implementation of solutions on the department's cloud environment (IaaS), enterprise cloud platforms (PaaS) and software (SaaS), using agile practices with a focus on user experience, security, and integration.

About the Role

The Technology Manageris a key leadership role responsible for aligning business strategy with the execution of Agile initiatives at the portfolio level.

The primary focus of this position is to ensure that the organisation's portfolio of projects, programs, and initiatives is well-coordinated, prioritised, and delivers the expected business outcomes.

This includes:
- managing the workflow and resourcing across discovery, design and delivery
- leveraging expertise in the lean-agile delivery methodology, resource and manage programs of work which optimise value to the customer
- using lean budgeting principles, allocate funds to value streams, programs, and initiatives based on their potential for creating business value
- prioritising initiatives based on their value, risk, dependencies, and available capacity, ensuring the most critical and impactful work is given priority in the portfolio backlog;
- establishing performance metrics and implement continuous improvement as it relates to the end-to-end process of product development from discovery, design to delivery.

Capabilities

Desirable Qualifications and Experience

Demonstrated experience which proactively drives strategic alignment, prioritisation, and value delivery
Demonstrated experience in optimising quality and time taken to deliver products via lean portfolio management
Adept experience in resource management, with key influence across project managers, scrum masters and delivery teams
Demonstrated experience in capacity planning to ensure that the division's resources are optimally allocated across initiatives
Working understanding of contemporary tools, processes and practices to ensure a lean portfolio practice Tertiary qualifications in a related discipline would be advantageous
Further Information

For more details regarding this position please see attached position description.

Applicants requiring adjustments can contact the nominated contact person.

For further information pertaining to the role, please contact Lauren Arkley

Applications close** 11:59pm on 3rd December 2023.