R&D Director

We are seeking a passionate forward-thinking R&D Director to join and lead our dynamic AppBuilder team. This role is ideal for a proven leader who thrives on delivering high-quality software at scale, driving operational excellence, and building high-performing teams.

As the R&D Director, you will lead several teams and cross-functional initiatives focused on building innovative, scalable, customer centric products that serve a diverse customer base. Additionally, you'll evangelise the toolset with Product R&D teams for their adoption, enabling them to realise accelerated time to value for development of their solutions.

You will play a critical role in shaping and executing our technical strategy, establishing engineering best practices, building a successful team, and aligning development with short- and long-term business goals.

What you'll be doing…

• Lead and mentor several R&D teams - Architects & Developers, to deliver roadmap milestones on time and to budget at the required quality level for product releases
• Drive technical excellence, ensuring architectural integrity, scalability, and high software quality. Including but not limited to architecture, security, programming and quality management
• Continuously develop and enhance industry knowledge to provide insights and thought leadership around software concepts and configuration
• Utilise input from customers, market research, technological advancements and trends to understand customer needs to be able to provide meaningful and innovative input to the Product Roadmap
• Define and execute strategic plans that align with company goals, balancing immediate deliverables with long-term innovation.
• Champion a customer-centric mindset, ensuring our products deliver real value and an exceptional user experience.
• Establish and continuously improve engineering processes, tools, and metrics to enhance productivity and delivery efficiency.
• Work closely with the Product Success Director, POs and Product Success team to ensure software delivered aligns to the business case and to facilitate required Development Methodology activities
• Optimise management of resources and reduce duplication in line with deliverable priorities, time frames, cost, people and skills needed.
• Develop talent plans to grow and scale the team, including hiring, succession planning, and ongoing capability development.

Your Talents…

• Proven experience leading R&D or engineering teams in a software product environment.
• Strong technical background with hands-on experience in architecture, design, and development of complex applications.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence and inspire high-performing teams and ability to anticipate and effectively resolve complex issues
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to effectively and maturely communicate and negotiate in writing and verbally with stakeholders across all levels
• Experience in setting strategic direction and translating it into actionable plans.
• Strong process orientation with a track record of driving efficiency and operational excellence.

Benefits…

• Competitive remuneration package
• Industry leading employee share plan
• Amazing Culture: 8 x Australian Business Awards "Employer of Choice" winner
• We love our team events & celebrate diversity
• Gym - we have a new state of the art Gym onsite, exclusive and available 24/7.
• Additional 2.5 days of leave per year dedicated to volunteering at a charity of your choice
• Free breakfast and coffee on-site
• Defined career framework - know what options you have in your career path and how you can get there

Who we are…
TechnologyOne (ASX: TNE) is Australia's largest enterprise software company and a top 100 ASX-listed business, operating across six countries. Our SaaS ERP solution helps over 1,200 organisations-including governments, councils, and universities-streamline operations and focus on what matters.

For more than 36 years, we've delivered enterprise software that evolves with technology, making life simpler for our customers.