IT Innovation Lead

3 weeks ago

Melbourne, Australia Melbourne Water Full time

**Job Number**:

- 978729

**Work type**:

- Fixed Term Contract

**Location**:

- Melbourne - Docklands

**Categories**:

- Information Technology

**Our Organisation**:
At Melbourne Water we love water and love life. What we do makes a vital contribution to Melbourne’s famous lifestyle. We achieve this by supplying high quality drinking water, providing outstanding sewerage services, integrating drainage systems, building resilience to flooding and by enhancing our waterway and land for greater community use. At Melbourne Water, we are in the ‘Decade that Matters’ and we’ve got some ambitious goals to achieve. It’s a pride we share in helping to make greater Melbourne a fantastic place to live.

**The Role**:
Reporting to the Manager Business Improvement, the IT Innovation Lead will lead IT innovation within Melbourne Water, creating opportunities for innovation and breaking through current barriers. In this role, you will promote technology innovation and create an environment where experimentation with digital technologies can be effectively fostered.

This will be achieved through:

- Setting up structures, frameworks, funding and resourcing to enable technology innovation.
- Developing new IT services, processes and methods to quickly prototype, build and prove concepts for new and innovative technologies.
- Establishing external networks and relationships at a strategic level to be able to effectively leverage innovation taking place within the water industry and elsewhere.
- Developing and maintaining a collaborative and supportive working relationship with IT and business stakeholders and influencers.
- Identifying, evaluating and exploring new opportunities to deliver customer value and increased value to our business.

This is a great opportunity for someone with a real passion for new ideas and technologies and how that could be applied to the workplace.
- Please note that_ this is a fixed-term contract for 12 months as a result of internal movement._

**Your Skills and Experience**:

- Experience establishing or managing an innovation function, processes and frameworks highly regarded.
- Previous experience with common innovation methods and software development lifecycle (SDLC) including rapid prototyping, design thinking, agile design and delivery, open innovation etc.
- Solid understanding of the technology landscape including new and emerging digital trends and potential use-cases.
- Highly developed research and analytical skills, including the ability to think strategically, quickly evaluate technology solutions and identify high value opportunities.
- Demonstrated ability to utilise and leverage Microsoft 365 and the Power Platform environment including Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, SharePoint and Microsoft Teams.
- Exposure to Azure/AWS resource management and provisioning services such as Virtual Machines, web app & container services, database platforms and cloud storage.

Your skills in building and cultivating effective partnerships with various stakeholders and the ability to lead and manage diverse, cross-functional team to ensure timely delivery of innovation projects will be keys to this role.

For more information, please see the attached Role Mandate.

**Culture at Melbourne Water**:
We take enormous pride in cultivating a culture that holistically benefits our team and the wider Melbourne community. The pillars of our culture are based on Flexibility, Impact, Growth & Development, and People.
- We are committed to flexible working in a variety of manners including hybrid work, varied start/finish times, purchased leave, part time work, and 9-day fortnights. We understand that Melbourne Water and our customers are benefitted by enabling balance in work and life.
- Make an impact as part of a passionate team doing meaningful work to enhance life and livability in Melbourne.
- We relish learning and challenging the status quo for continuous growth. Perpetual and varied opportunities for learning and development are offered in a variety of manners - from formal development programs, digital learning content and lunch & learns; to visiting our sites and getting to see our initiatives and projects first hand.

How to apply

Closing date: 25 April 2024 at 11:55pm AEST

**Advertised**:
11 Apr 2024 AUS Eastern Standard Time

**Closing**:
25 Apr 2024 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Standard Time

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