Delivery Lead (Digital Experience Enablement)

Department of Government Services VIC; City of Melbourne; Híbrido; AUD 150 000 - 190 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Flexible work arrangements

Resumo da oferta

Department of Government Services VIC in Melbourne seeks Delivery Lead (Digital Experience Enablement) to steer a senior engineering team responsible for Single Digital Presence and the central content management system across government sites.

You will balance Agile and Waterfall practices while enhancing SDP, Drupal, and related tooling to deliver consistent, reliable digital experiences for citizens and agencies.

Qualificações

• Proven experience leading technical teams for large-scale digital platforms.
• Strong Drupal platform expertise and modern engineering practices.
• Ability to lead complex tech initiatives in Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills.
• Strategic thinking with focus on user-centred services.
• Collaborative leadership and commitment to continuous improvement.

Responsabilidades

• Lead a senior multidisciplinary engineering team across Drupal, front-end, and full-stack practices.
• Oversee delivery, operation and ongoing improvement of Single Digital Presence as the central CMS for content websites.
• Maintain responsibility for the Drupal platform and related engineering practices, ensuring security, reliability and maintainability for whole-of-government use.
• Drive efficiencies across SDP and Service Victoria by identifying reusable patterns and repeatable digital experience approaches.

Conhecimentos

People leadership

Drupal

Front-end

Full-stack

Agile

Waterfall

Hybrid delivery

Stakeholder engagement

Strategic thinking

Team building

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Delivery Lead (Digital Experience Enablement)

Department of Government Services VIC - Melbourne VIC

The Department of Government Services (DGS) was established on 1 January 2023 to improve everyone's experience of doing business and interacting with the Victorian government. We bring important day-to-day services together in one department to make things easy and seamless for Victorians and businesses. We are doing this by connecting and digitising our systems and platforms across state and local government as well as streamlining our corporate and procurement services.

You can find out more about our Ministers, leadership and entities here: Department of Government Services.

About the Branch/Group

The Citizen Technology Platforms branch builds and maintains a rich collection of digital tools to enhance citizens' digital interactions with government. We look after the content management system that runs most government websites, the Service Victoria mobile app, and an extensive array of web-based transactions. Through careful reuse, modern development methods, and extensive use of cloud and AI, we deliver high-value online experiences at scale and speed.

About the Role

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

We are seeking applicants who have demonstrated experience from the following criteria:

• 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.

For more information, please see the Position Description

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.