Delivery Lead

Department of Government Services; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Department of Government Services – Melbourne is seeking a Delivery Lead (Digital Experience Enablement) to guide a senior engineering team responsible for Single Digital Presence and the Drupal platform within Victoria’s government.

You will lead multi-disciplinary engineers, drive reusable digital patterns and ensure high-availability, secure, scalable services across content and transaction platforms in a hybrid Agile/Waterfall environment.

Qualifications

• Experience leading technical teams responsible for large‑scale digital platforms or customer‑facing online services.
• Strong expertise in Drupal platforms, digital technologies, modern engineering practices, and service reliability.
• Ability to lead complex technology initiatives and deliver outcomes through Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery approaches.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships and navigate competing priorities.
• Strong strategic thinking and problem‑solving capabilities, with a focus on delivering user‑centred and community‑focused digital services.
• A collaborative and inclusive leadership style, with a commitment to developing high‑performing teams and driving continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop a senior multidisciplinary engineering team across Drupal, front-end, and full-stack practices, creating a positive, inclusive and high-performing team culture.
• Oversee the delivery, operation and ongoing improvement of Single Digital Presence as the Victorian Government’s central content management system for content websites.
• Maintain responsibility for the Drupal platform and related engineering practices, ensuring the platform remains secure, reliable, maintainable and fit for whole-of-government use.
• Drive efficiencies across SDP and Service Victoria platforms by identifying reusable patterns, shared capabilities and repeatable digital experience approaches for both content and transaction services.

Skills

Leadership

Drupal

Hybrid delivery

Stakeholder engagement

Strategic thinking

Team development

Tools

Drupal

Job description

Department of Government Services – Melbourne VIC

The Delivery Lead (Digital Experience Enablement) leads a senior multidisciplinary engineering team responsible for Single Digital Presence and the delivery of repeatable digital experience capabilities across content and transaction platforms. The role has a heavy focus on sustaining and improving SDP as the Victorian Government’s central content management system for content websites, including responsibility for the Drupal platform and related engineering practices. Working across SDP and Service Victoria platforms, the role drives high-value, low-cost and repeatable digital experiences that improve consistency, efficiency and service quality. The role operates in a hybrid Agile and Waterfall environment, balancing continuous improvement with the reliability, governance and planning needs of high-availability foundational platforms.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead, coach and develop a senior multidisciplinary engineering team across Drupal, front-end, and full-stack practices, creating a positive, inclusive and high-performing team culture.
• Oversee the delivery, operation and ongoing improvement of Single Digital Presence as the Victorian Government’s central content management system for content websites.
• Maintain responsibility for the Drupal platform and related engineering practices, ensuring the platform remains secure, reliable, maintainable and fit for whole-of-government use.
• Drive efficiencies across SDP and Service Victoria platforms by identifying reusable patterns, shared capabilities and repeatable digital experience approaches for both content and transaction services.

About You

• Proven experience leading technical teams responsible for large-scale digital platforms, websites, or customer-facing online services.
• Strong expertise in Drupal platforms, digital technologies, modern engineering practices, and service reliability.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex technology initiatives and deliver outcomes through Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery approaches.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships and navigate competing priorities.
• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving capabilities, with a focus on delivering user-centred and community-focused digital services.
• A collaborative and inclusive leadership style, with a commitment to developing high-performing teams and driving continuous improvement.

This role is an ongoing position. This position is only open to applicants with relevant rights to work in Australia.

Other relevant information

To be eligible for appointment to this role, applicants will possess corresponding work rights for the advertised employment period. Appointment to an ongoing role is only available to an Australian/New Zealand citizen or an Australian Permanent Resident. Preferred applicants will be required to undertake pre-employment screening. DGS actively promotes diversity, inclusion and an equal opportunity workplace. We welcome applicants from all diverse backgrounds, including people with disabilities and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. All roles at DGS can be worked flexibly, however it may differ from role to role.