Iteration Managers

Careers with Impact

More than one million Australians trust HESTA with their money. HESTA is a top-performing industry super fund working for real-world impact. We use our expertise and influence to deliver strong long-term returns while accelerating our contribution to a more sustainable world.

HESTA is also an inspiring and rewarding place to work. That's because what we do makes a difference to the lives of our members. The people who work at HESTA are not only exceptional at what they do, they're focused on living and creating a strong organisational culture. We're an industry super fund dedicated to the people who keep our communities going. People who provide some of the best health, education and community services in the world are HESTA members - and we are proud to serve them.

Bring your authentic and passionate self to this exceptional role #careerswithimpact

Are you an experienced Iteration Manager who's passionate about delivering real impact? At HESTA, we have multiple opportunities available to step into a dynamic, agile environment where collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement are truly valued.

Reporting to the Technology Delivery and Success Manager and working closely with our Delivery Lead, you'll help shape how we work, enabling high-performing, cross-functional squads to deliver value effectively and sustainably.

What You'll Do

Iteration Planning & Execution

• Facilitate core agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, showcases, and retrospectives.
• Support the team in setting achievable sprint goals and maintaining focus on delivery.
• Ensure visibility and flow of work through agile tooling (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps).

Agile Practice & Team Coaching

• Champion agile values and principles, tailoring practices to suit the squad's maturity and context.
• Coach team members in adopting and embedding agile disciplines such as story slicing, estimation, and prioritisation.

Drive Collaboration & Stakeholder Alignment

• Partner with Product Owners to keep backlogs refined, prioritised, and meaningful.
• Collaborate with other Iteration Managers and the Delivery Lead to manage dependencies across squads.

Support Security, Risk & Compliance

• Ensure delivery aligns with HESTA's security, compliance, and risk frameworks (ISO27001, CPS234, NIST).
• Work closely with security teams to proactively manage integration and delivery risk.

Champion Continuous Improvement

• Foster a culture of curiosity, feedback, and problem-solving.
• Contribute to our Communities of Practice (CoP) and help evolve the way we deliver across HESTA.

What You'll Bring

You are an experienced Iteration Manager who thrives in a complex, fast-paced, and agile delivery environment. You've led project delivery as an Iteration Manager or Scrum Master, ideally in financial services, superannuation or consulting.

You have deep understanding of Agile frameworks, tools and techniques: e.g. Scrum, Kanban, PI (Program Increment), planning, work breakdown, automated testing, CICD etc. You engage confidently with stakeholders at all levels and know how to bring out the best in cross-functional squads.

Tertiary qualifications in a technology, business or a related discipline coupled with Agile Delivery or Scrum certifications (e.g., Certified Scrum Master, SAFe) are highly regarded.

Benefits that matter and make a difference for our employees

• Leave for those moments that matter, an additional 6 days of leave at the end of year, up to 6 days paid volunteer leave, gender neutral paid parental leave of 20 weeks, Gender Affirmation leave, reproductive health and wellbeing leave, Cultural and Ceremonial leave. Access your LSL after 3 years, take AL at half pay, and purchase up to 2 weeks additional leave (just to name a few).
• Your professional development matters, up to $5k per year professional development and up to 8 days professional development leave, HESTA scholarships and free access to a range of premium learning tools.
• Your health and wellbeing matters, free annual flu shots and skin checks, incredible social events throughout the year and a comprehensive employee assistance program available 24/7.
• Your financial wellbeing matters, up to 15% super, financial planning support, end of year payment for all Enterprise Agreement-covered employees, incentivised Employee Referral Program and novated lease options.

We celebrate, value and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures and abilities. We welcome and support applications from First Nations people, physically, neuro or culturally diverse, LGBTQI+, and people of any age. We are proud to be WGEA accredited as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equity.

We want all candidates to feel safe, included and provided with the best opportunity to thrive, if you require reasonable adjustments during your application or throughout the recruitment process, please reach out to a member of the Talent team and we'll call you to discuss.

Please note: Applications via recruitment agencies will not be accepted for this position.