Application Build Services Manager

Bureau of Meteorology; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

The Bureau of Meteorology seeks an Applications Build Services Manager to provide strategic leadership and oversight of project and program delivery within the Application Services environment in Melbourne, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, delivery standards and long-term sustainment.

The role leads cross-disciplinary teams, governs end-to-end delivery lifecycle from planning to operations, strengthens delivery capability, mentors leaders and promotes delivery excellence across

Qualifications

• Leadership of multidisciplinary delivery teams across complex programs and portfolios.
• Strategic alignment with enterprise architecture, governance, and delivery standards.
• Capability-building across the delivery workforce and mentoring leaders.
• Managing delivery of high-risk programs with effective resourcing and dependencies.
• Risk, security, and governance compliance for enterprise delivery.
• Stakeholder engagement with sponsors, business and technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Set direction and hold multidisciplinary teams accountable for delivery outcomes.
• Provide enterprise-level strategic technical leadership and architecture alignment.
• Manage a high-performing team of technical experts and build organisational capability.
• Oversee delivery lifecycles from planning to go-live and transition to operations.
• Mentor emerging leaders and develop leadership depth for sustained outcomes.
• Lead cross-portfolio coordination to optimise dependencies and outcomes.

Job description

The Application Build Services Manager is responsible for providing strategic leadership and oversight of project and program delivery within the Bureau’s Application Services environment, ensuring delivery outcomes are aligned to organisational priorities, enterprise architecture, delivery standards and long-term operational sustainment. The role leads the coordination and delivery of complex initiatives across multiple streams of work, providing direction to multidisciplinary teams and embedding consistent, high-quality delivery practices across the portfolio.

The role is accountable for overseeing the end-to-end delivery lifecycle, from planning and mobilisation through to implementation, go-live and transition to operations, ensuring delivery activities are effectively governed, appropriately resourced and managed in accordance with the Bureau Delivery Framework and associated governance, risk and security requirements. Working closely with sponsors, business stakeholders, technical teams, vendors and delivery partners, the Project Delivery Manager provides leadership in managing delivery dependencies, resolving complex issues, maintaining visibility of risks and performance, and ensuring solutions are supportable, sustainable and aligned to future-state business and technology objectives.

The Application Build Services Manager also plays a key role in strengthening delivery capability across the organisation by uplifting governance, standards, workforce capability and delivery practices, while mentoring leaders and fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement and delivery excellence. The role represents IT Services in senior governance forums, providing authoritative advice, influencing delivery decisions and supporting enterprise-wide coordination of priorities, resources and outcomes.

The key duties of the position include:

• Set direction and hold multidisciplinary teams accountable for delivery outcomes.Providing leadership to resolve complex and systemic delivery challenges of application delivery.
• Provide enterprise-level strategic technical leadership by setting direction for technical solutions ensuring solutions alignment to enterprise architecture, delivery standards, and long-term sustainment of outcomes.
• Manage a team of multidisciplinary technical experts, Lead and shape a high-performing multidisciplinary workforce, building organisational capability, fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and delivery excellence across Application Services
• Accountable for the delivery of complex and high-risk programs and projects ensuring alignment to organisational priorities, effective resourcing, and the integration of multiple delivery streams across DDG.
• Develop and mentor emerging leaders, actively building leadership depth and succession capability to support sustained delivery outcomes across the portfolio.
• Be accountable for oversight of project delivery lifecycle, ensuring effective application of the Bureau Delivery Framework, Go-Live processes.
• Contribute to lifecycle planning, develop plans with operational managers to transition systems to an operational state.
• Lead system transition to operations, while holding delivery teams to account for quality, risk, and outcomes.Be accountable for early support of systems ensuring operations teams have support they need as systems go live.
• Lead cross-portfolio coordination and alignment, influencing program planning and delivery across DDG to ensure dependencies are managed and outcomes are optimised at an enterprise level.
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement across delivery practices and platforms, identifying and implementing opportunities to enhance capability, efficiency, and service outcomes.
• Own enterprise delivery risk and compliance, ensuring adherence to security, governance and delivery frameworks, and proactively managing and escalating risks at an organisational level.
• Provide assurance of solution quality and sustainability, overseeing design, build, and transition to ensure outcomes achieve high reliability, low operational cost, and compliance with governance and support models.
• Represent Application Services at senior governance forums, providing authoritative advice, influencing decision-making, and ensuring transparency of delivery performance, risks, and dependencies.
• Provide strategic technical advice and direction, guiding architectural decisions and ensuring alignment with enterprise strategies, platforms, and future state objectives.
• Lead and influence procurement and workforce planning activities, ensuring strategic alignment of vendor engagements, contracts, and recruitment to support delivery capability and program outcomes.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise security, risk, and delivery frameworks, embedding governance and accountability across all project and operational activities.
• Drive continuous improvement and innovation, identifying opportunities to enhance delivery practices, platform capability, and service outcomes.
• Other duties as required.
• Model APS leadership behaviours, upholding APS Values, Code of Conduct, and Social Justice principles, and ensuring a safe, inclusive, and high-performing workplace.

Getting to know the Bureau of Meteorology

The Bureau of Meteorology is one of the few organisations that touches the lives of all Australians and all Australia, every day. The Bureau works across Australia and remote islands, providing services from the Antarctic to beyond the equator, and from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific.We are Australia's national weather, climate and water agency, in the Agriculture, Water and Environment portfolio of the Australian Government, operating under the authority of the Meteorology Act 1955 and the Water Act 2007. We provide data, information, knowledge, insight and wisdom to help Australians prepare and respond to the realities of their natural environment, including droughts, floods, fires, storms, tsunami and tropical cyclones.Our products and services include observations, forecasts, analysis and advice covering Australia's atmosphere, water, oceans and space environments. We undertake focused scientific research in support of our operations and services. Through regular forecasts, warnings, monitoring and advice, we provide one of Australia's most fundamental and widely used public services.We have strong relationships with our customers, partners and stakeholders in Australia, including the Australian Community and the emergency services sectors, all-levels of Government, and focus sectors including aviation, agriculture, energy and resources, national security and water.