Head of Platform Services

4 days ago

Sydney, Australia Latitude IT Full time

Fully remote, superb remuneration + STI
- Foundational member of a visionary CIO's disruptive dream team
- Evolve the strategic of vision of the org's core tech platforms

The Head of Platforms will set the tone and direction of operations and platform engineering.By platform, we mean cloud, integration, data & analytics and cyber security.

The Head of Platform will be accountable for the following:

- Create a platform-oriented operating model to drive transformation and fulfil the potential of people and functions
- Spearhead a platform engineering culture, serving as an ambassador of its benefits to stakeholders
- Compose a plan geared to aligning tech with business success and organising resources to support it
- Partner with the business to prioritise demand and use the platform to realise business outcomes
- Serve as an advisor to shape tech strategy and align the platform team to it using industry best-practice
- As part of the tech portfolio, devise a release & product strategy and prioritise accordingly
- Leverage automation, tools and code using DevOps frameworks
- Create PaaS for the consumption of internal teams
- Enable developers and product engineers by implementing tools for observability, testing and CI/CD
- Partner with PaaS users to prioritise capabilities backlog
- Assure platform resilience, business continuity, availability, scalability and reliability
- Manage lifecycle & enhancement of platforms
- Champion platform GRC and the creation of patterns to ensure adherence to industry best practices, particularly relating to cyber and regulatory compliance
- Act as an internal consultancy for internal customers lacking the necessary data, analytics and integration capability
- Build an internal PaaS service for internal customers with full finops capability enabling both chargeback and showback for consumers

Some of the following skills and experience are considered highly desirable:

- Senior experience as a tech leader of cross-disciplinary engineering and ops teams
- Senior experience designing, building and managing enterprise platforms
- Senior experience in designing and embedding operational models focusing on platform and DevOps engineering, and agile product delivery
- Cloud based tech implementation experience using modern frameworks and tooling. E.g. IaC, CI/CD, observability, testing and so forth
- Senior experience in data and analytics, integration and cybersecurity and evangelising patterns and best practice
- Senior experience in building and delivering financially viable platform services end to end, from discovery through to adoption and support
- Senior experience ITIL service management to support platform services
- Excellent stakeholder engagement, influencing and change management skills
- Thought leadership in delivering powerful, business aligned outcomes
- Pragmatism and prioritisation and the ability to balance technical debt with long term value
- The ability to implement performance management frameworks and KPI's to measure and showcase the value of a platform engineering approach
- Roadmapping a backlog of initiatives and attracting and retaining a team to execute on it
- Risk management and continuous improvement mindset

This is an unmissable opportunity for an unorthodox senior platform engineering leader looking for that vertical move into a disruptive 'head of' position in an organisation committed to becoming the Tesla of their industry.

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