Platform Delivery Manager

**Brisbane or Sydney**
- Exciting opportunity to gain exposure within a leading Australian Insurer with a cloud-first strategy
- Work with best-of-breed technology; innovative projects that build for the future
- Hybrid working model, supportive and collaborative team environment

We're never just satisfied with how things are - because we know how things could be. And it's our expert Technology team who forge ahead every day to make those 'what ifs' a reality.

Welcome to a place where you can chase real progress and drive real change. And that includes your own career. Being a part of Technology at Suncorp Group means being switched on, endlessly curious and always adaptable. In return, you'll be supported to bring your own ideas to the table and challenge conventions - with the aim of making life a little brighter, simpler and better for our customers and each other.

**About the role**:
As a Platform Delivery Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the design, implementation, and management of the infrastructure hosting platforms, including Storage, Backups, and SQL and Oracle databases.

Your strong background in leading diverse teams across all areas of technology will be key for leading, motivating and inspiring your team to develop best in class capability. As a people leader you will have the ability to understand problems and guide people to get to solutions effectively. In addition, you will have extensive experience with cloud services and architecture.

This is a unique opportunity to play a key role in a new industry framework using the Momentum model - an evolution of Agile, working with best-of-breed technology.

**What you'll do**:

- Advocate for best practices in the use of Databases, Data Protection, Hosting and Storage.
- Own the end-to-end design, implementation, and management of the platforms; contribute to and drive Infrastructure strategy and roadmap for the organisation.
- Continuously evaluate and integrate new services and features.
- Maintains vision and leads development of Platform Increment Plan with defined success measures (i.e. accountable for plan).
- Responsible for both change and run initiatives in relevant technology area.
- Responsible for driving prioritisation decisions with functional Leadership team, using Increment Plan
- Lead the adoption and implementation of IaC using tools like Terraform.
- Drive the automation of infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment processes.
- Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitLab CI.
- Work collaboratively to build and maintain strong relationships with team members, business customers, Project Stakeholders, peers, Finance, Procurement, Risk and other T&O teams.

**What you'll bring**:

- Proven experience leading large diverse teams (including partners) across multiple locations
- Extensive experience with cloud services and architecture.
- Proven track record of managing cloud platforms at an enterprise scale.
- Experience of IT operations in a large organisation is highly desired;
- Excellent stakeholder management; with proven ability to build relationships quickly
- Possess the drive for continuous development and enhancement of the cloud platform.
- Excellent problem solving - ability to seek out information and break down problems and situations into simple lists of components.
- Change management capability - ability to recognise, understand and support need for change and anticipated impact on both the team, business and self.

**What we can offer you**:

- Discounts and offers on a range of retail favourite stores as well as insurance products.
- A range of flexible working and leave options, including 20 weeks paid parental leave, 4 weeks paid secondary carer parental leave and unlimited paid emergency response leave.
- Invest in your brighter future with ongoing study support and career development programs.
- Give back to our communities with payroll giving, donation matching and paid volunteer leave.
- Prioritise your work/life balance with our robust employee assistance program and dedicated employee council.

**About Suncorp**:
We're proud to be a part of the Suncorp family alongside some of Australia's most trusted and diverse names in insurance. Together, we share a drive to make the complex simple and bring our customers peace of mind when it matters most - while helping to evolve and innovate the ways we can serve our community every day. That comes with all kinds of exciting opportunities for you to grow your own career. Whether you're guiding people through life's biggest moments or providing them with support in times they need it most, you'll be driven forward by our shared customer obsession and supported at every step of the journey.

For over 100 years Suncorp has been driven by our guiding Purpose - to build futures and protect what matters. To ensure we deliver on that Purpose, we've made a commitment, built on trust