Executive Manager

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Role highlights

• Lead the infrastructure teams powering CSIRO's research and enterprise operations
• Drive strategic direction and influence major technology and capability decisions
• Shape future-focused platforms while guiding a high-performing, expert team

About CSIRO

As Australia's national science agency, CSIRO is solving the greatest challenges through innovative science and technology. Many of our iconic innovations were once considered impossible until someone, just like you, joined us and took on the challenge.

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Eligibility

This is a security assessed position. To be eligible you must hold an Australian Citizenship and be willing and able to meet Negative Vetting Level 1 Security requirements. Appointment to this role is subject to provision of a national police check and may be subject to other security, medical, or character requirements.

For Internal Applicants: You must be a CSIRO indefinite or specified term employee who has been previously appointed to an advertised vacancy via a competitive process.

Role particulars

Location and office arrangements: Flexible to be based in any Australian Capital city with a CSIRO site. Hybrid working available

Salary: AU$157,833 to AU$174,631 pa (pro-rata for part-time) + up to 15.4% superannuation

Tenure & work schedule: Indefinite full-time

Reference: 101833

The opportunity

As the Executive Manager – Platforms Information & Infrastructure Services, you'll provide strategic leadership for CSIRO's core technology infrastructure within the Information Management and Technology (IMT) unit. You'll oversee the secure, resilient and high-performance platforms that power CSIRO's research and enterprise work including national-scale storage, cloud services, data centres, computing and high-performance research environments.

Working closely with IMT leaders and program heads, you'll ensure infrastructure aligns with organisational priorities, supports emerging technologies, and remains sustainable and adaptable. As a key member of the IMT leadership team, you'll help shape CSIRO's strategic direction while keeping essential services running smoothly and driving transformational change across the organisation.

Your high-level duties will include:

• Provide strategic leadership and management of the Platforms Group, ensuring CSIRO maintains secure, resilient, and scalable infrastructure.

• Lead the five teams within the group to deliver enterprise-grade capabilities across storage, data protection, virtualisation, cloud, HPC, physical infrastructure, and facilities management.

• Collaborate with IMT Executive Managers and Heads of Programs to align infrastructure with service delivery and enterprise priorities.

• Maintain a customer focus in the team and continually evolve services to meet customer requirements and needs.

• Ensure infrastructure platforms are positioned to support CSIRO's science and enterprise objectives, including scalability, sustainability, and emerging technology adoption.

• Drive operational excellence and continuous improvement across infrastructure services, with a focus on customer needs, efficiency, security, and reliability.

• Oversee budget, resource allocation, and risk management for the Platforms program.

• Represent Platforms within IMT governance forums, contributing to organisational strategy, enterprise planning, and transformational initiatives.

As the successful candidate, you will bring:

Essential criteria

• Relevant tertiary qualification in IT and/or equivalent experience leading enterprise-wide solutions.

• Proven ability to lead large-scale infrastructure programs, including management of complex platforms such as storage, cloud, virtualisation, HPC, and facilities.

• Demonstrated experience in strategic planning and delivery of secure, resilient, and scalable infrastructure in a research or enterprise context, including:

• • Budget management, resource planning, and risk management;

• Managing vendor relationships, contracts, and partnerships.

• Strong leadership capability with a track record of building high-performing, customer-focused teams.

• Excellent communication and influencing skills, able to represent infrastructure priorities at organisational forums and with external stakeholders

Desirable Criteria

• Experience in delivering programs that support organisational transformation, business process simplification, and increased effectiveness.

Please note, Under CSIRO policy only those who meet all essential criteria can be appointed for full details about this role, including all selection criteria and duties, please review the Position Description.

Setting you up for success

We are committed to providing a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible to everyone. We recognise that it may be helpful for us to adjust our process to make it equitable for your individual situation. Please contact Sarah Lyons via email and let us know how we can support you.

Life at CSIRO and flexible work arrangements

We work flexibly at CSIRO, offering a range of options for how, when and where you work. We can discuss flexible work arrangements with you during the recruitment process. CSIRO also offers a range of leave entitlements, benefits and career development opportunities. To find out more, visit Careers at CSIRO.

Inclusion and belonging

Solving Australia's greatest challenges takes a diversity of minds and lived experiences. We know diverse teams are more effective and deliver more innovative outcomes. As an equal employment opportunity organisation, we are committed to creating diverse and inclusive teams where people feel they belong. We recognise true diversity encompasses all ages, abilities, cultures, faiths, levels of education, genders, sexualities, diversity of thought and much more. We focus on hiring people who share our values of People First, Further Together, Making it Real and Trusted.

CSIRO holds Gold Status for the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTQIA+ inclusion, and a Science in Australia Gender Equity Bronze Award.

Child safety

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How to apply

Please apply online and submit a cover letter (maximum 2 pages) and CV that demonstrate your motivation and ability to meet the essential requirements of this role.

Applications close

1 December :00pm AEDT