Cloud Principal Lead

Location: Melbourne | Eastern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Department of Transport

**Salary**: $103,920 - $125,735

Occupation: IT and Telecommunications

Reference: VG/DOT/IT/1696043

The Department of Transport & Planning brings together all transport modes to design, plan, build and operate Victoria's transport system. Our job is to further integrate the transport network and improve the delivery of services to Victorians for simpler, quicker and safer journeys that connect people and places and support Victoria's prosperity and liveability. We’re focused on outcomes that deliver more choice, connections and confidence in our travel, ensuring the whole transport network works as one to deliver better services and outcomes. The department is committed to building a culture where we say 'yes' to flexible work arrangements, provide personal and professional development programs and support ways of working that help employees balance work and life.

**Cloud Principal Lead**

VPS5: $103,920 - $125,735 p/a + super
Ongoing - full time (flexible working arrangements)
Based in Kew

**About Us**

**Investment and Technology** is a Group within the Department of Transport and Planning, and is responsible for providing investment strategy and to deliver commercial and information technology services to drive high performance and improved commercial outcomes for the State.

**About the Role**

The Cloud Principal Lead will collaborate with Solution Architects to establish the design principles for managing the Department of Transport and Planning (DTP) public cloud environments. This will include aligning cloud technology adoption to the DTP standards, policies, and governance controls as well as developing the framework to allow delivery teams to establish services which meet stakeholder demands.

**Key Accountabilities**
- **Standard Operating Procedures - **Ability to effectively develop standards, policy and patterns pertaining to public cloud services.
- **Expert Advice -** Ability to provide consultancy advice to internal and business stakeholders regarding public cloud services.
- **Innovation - **Ability to adopt the latest public cloud innovations as applicable to DoT services.
- **DoT Representation -** The incumbent is able to effectively represent the team in partner / supplier contract discussions with vendor and service managers.
- **Subject Matter Expert -** The incumbent is able to effectively represent operational interests in various DoT and Whole of Victorian Government design authorities regarding cloud services.
- **Effective People Leadership - **The Cloud Principal Lead is providing effective leadership, people management and support to their team. Staff are engaged with high levels of cohesion and commitment and are delivering on the services required.
- **Promote and support safe, inclusive and flexible team operations.**

**Key Selection Criteria**

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
- **Strategic Planning (Applied)** - Ensuring that day to day planning and work processes are in line with team/organisation strategy; Identifying and developsing own and team objectives linking strategies to actions to achieve these; Guiding others in strategic planning process.
- **Systems Thinking** **(Accomplished)** - Diagnosing trends, obstacles and opportunities in the internal and external environment that connect to own work and the teams work; Coaching others in using systems thinking to solve problems and create solutions; Understanding the linkages between systems and communities to inform policy; Conceptualising and defines the systems working within the organisation.
- **Critical Thinking and Problem Solving (Leading)** - Considering a broad range of topics (beyond immediate area of work), working across government and at senior levels to develop and deliver sustainable solutions.
- **Digital and Technological Literacy (Accomplished)** - Integrating improved capabilities into service delivery processes. Assuming the role of solution architect or project manager where there's a balanced focus between technology focus and strategy focus.
- **Influence and Persuasion (Accomplished)** - Gaining agreement to proposals and ideas; Building behind the scenes support for ideas to ensure buy-in and ownership; Using chains of indirect influence to achieve outcomes; Involving experts or other third parties to strengthen case.

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES - **Resilience (Leading)** - Creates a climate which encourages and supports openness, persistence and genuine debate around critical issues. Provides sound explanation and argument for agreed positions.
- **Flexibility and Adaptability (Leading)** - Works to find new ways to deliver outcomes; Recognises the merits of different options and acts accordingly; Has courage to alter strategies in situations when there are clear indications of existing strategy may not deliver the best outcome; where significant amount of effort or investment has been put in. Build