Manager, Enterprise Applications
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Job description
The Manager, Enterprise Applications provides senior leadership for resources who work across Aurecon's core application enablement services, ensuring the capabilities that underpin enterprise platforms are scalable, standardized, secure, and delivered to a high level of quality in alignment with the Aurecon Blueprint. The role is accountable for building and continuously improving the delivery capability across Finance Systems, People Systems, Project Systems, Enterprise Systems and Client Operations for platforms such as Workday, Dynamics, Proteus and ServiceNow.
Working in close partnership with Product Leaders, business stakeholders, other IT Managers, and IT Practices, the role creates the operational environment, governance, and delivery capability that enables Product teams to deliver outcomes efficiently, predictably, and at scale across the DevOps lifecycle.
We know the work we do is vital in assisting Aurecon's business globally. Here are the key things you will do to 'bring ideas to life'.
Organisational Leadership
- Ensures delivery processes, resource utilisation and engineering practices support predictable and high-quality outcomes and service performance.
- Enables effective planning, sequencing, execution and IT engineering capability across enterprise platforms in partnership with Product Leads.
Integrated Delivery
- Enable integrated delivery through capability enablement across applications and squads.
- Contributes to dependency awareness across other applications and products through collaboration with Product Leads and PPM's
Stakeholder Partnership
- Acts as a senior IT partner to the relevant business stakeholders, supporting business strategy with clear technology priorities, roadmaps, and delivery outcomes.
- Aligns priorities across Product Leaders, Function Leaders, and business stakeholders to ensure solutions are fit for purpose and high quality.
Governance & Risk
- Responsible for platform risk, lifecycle management, and compliance outcomes.
- Ensures platforms meet service, security, regulatory, architectural, and audit requirements.
- Embeds governance, delivery controls, and quality assurance practices that scale across platforms.
- Proactively identifies, manages, and mitigates delivery and operational risks.
Team & Capability Leadership
- Builds and sustains a high-performing, collaborative team culture across enterprise platforms.
- Owns workforce planning, ensuring the right skills, capacity, and onshore/offshore balance.
- Leads capability uplift, career development, and performance management.
- Actively manages capacity risk and key person dependencies to ensure sustainable delivery., * IT Leadership Team
- Product Leaders
- Portfolio Program Managers (PPM's)
- Project Managers, Scrum Masters, Delivery Owners
- Talent, Recruitment and Strategic Workforce teams, including External Suppliers
At Aurecon, we know every career adventure is unique. That's why our benefits are designed to support you and your family - at every stage.
- Flexibility - balance what matters most to you
- Wellbeing - we priorities your health
- Recognition - your impact matters
- Family - support for modern families and carers
- Community - give back through volunteering days
- Career development - learn, lead and shape your career
Our Aurecon Attributes describe the types of people we bring together for clients. We don't expect you to have all eight of the attributes, but one that is unique to you.
Finally, we value that each of our team members brings something different to Aurecon. We look for people who have had a broad range of experiences throughout their career and can demonstrate how they have worked as part of a team to bring ideas to life. Does that sound like you?
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field
- 8-10+ years' experience in managed services, end-to-end IT delivery, application operations, workforce management, quality assurance, and operational governance within enterprise technology environments.
- Experience leading persistent delivery across products and technologies, with sound knowledge of agile methodologies, DevOps practices, and contemporary ways of working.
- Structured approach to problem solving, continuous improvement, and delivery of outcomes across products, technologies, and practices.
- Strong leadership capability, including coaching, mentoring, performance management, and workforce capability uplift to support high-performing teams.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence outcomes and support change across a complex organisation and fast-paced IT environment, Agile Programming Methodologies, Architectural Services, Blueprints, Business Administration, Business Strategy, Business Support, Capacity Management, Career Development, Coaching, Communication Skills, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Improvement, Delivery Management, DevOps, Diversity, Enterprise Applications, Financial Systems, Information Systems/Technology IS/IT Administration, Information Technology & Information Systems, Investment Management, Leadership, Management of Information Systems/Technology (MIS), Mentoring, Multiplatform/Cross-Platform, Operations Management, Performance Management, Problem Solving Skills, Productivity Management, Project Portfolio Management (PPM), Project/Program Management, Quality Assurance, Quality Assurance Methodology, Recruiting Strategy, Regulations, Resource Utilization, Risk, Risk Management, ScrumMaster, ServiceNow, System Operations, Team Player, Technical Delivery, Technical Leadership, Technical Strategy, Workforce Management, Workforce Planning