Design-Driven Project Delivery Lead - Sydney

Citygreen Systems Ltd.; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible office location across NSW

Hybrid working

Days off in lieu

Self-learning tools access

Career agility

Meaningful work

Wellbeing programs

Job summary

Citygreen Systems Ltd. in Parramatta invites an experienced Senior Delivery Lead to manage software development and releases for a major digital transformation. You will oversee SDLC, apply Agile, Scrum, and CI/CD, and ensure on-time delivery while meeting governance and quality standards.

The role emphasizes mentoring cross-functional teams, coordinating stakeholders, and driving DevSecOps practices. Hybrid remote work is available with a potential conversion to permanent on success.

Qualifications

• 8+ years IT delivery with agile delivery experience.
• Knowledge of SDLC/ITIL; IT project management agile certifications desirable.
• Experience in banking/payments is highly regarded.
• Experience leading cross-functional software teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage SDLC and releases for a digital transformation programme.
• Apply Agile/Lean practices and ensure on-time delivery within governance.
• Coach teams as scrum master and drive CI/CD adoption.
• Build stakeholder relationships and coordinate with other squads.

Skills

Agile frameworks

Scrum

Kanban

XP

TDD

CI/CD

Release management

DevSecOps

Stakeholder management

Jira

Confluence

Education

Diploma or graduate IT/CS/PM/engineering

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Kiro/ Claude

Job description

Role: Senior Delivery Lead Grade: Grade 9/10 Temporary up to 30 June 2028, potential conversion to go Permanent/Ongoing Location: Parramatta (with option to work remotely in hybrid mode) Reporting to: Principal Product Owner

We have an opportunity for an experienced IT Delivery Lead to manage the software development and releases for a technology transformation programme (Digital Transformation), utilising the latest technology stack such as AWS Cloud, microservices, Java, ReactJS, etc. The current project is working on the payments and financial management modernisation of an enterprise system that is responsible for processing, recording and reporting of over $50 bn tax revenues we collect annually.

Responsibilities include managing all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) by deploying suitable agile frameworks such as Scrum, TDD, BDD, etc that are suited to run on our CI/CD pipelines. The focus is on releasing our software products to our customers on time, while maintaining compliance with quality and laid out governance frameworks.

Key accountabilities

• Source, analyse and establish business requirements and scope IT effort to meet release timelines
• Always establish and maintain squad capacity and constantly review talent profile for estimated future tasks
• Plan and manage the delivery of approved products using Agile and Lean practices and frameworks to ensure delivery of high-quality products, services and user experience
• Understand and effectively communicate to the team's release health (size of backlog, backlog priorities, and velocity of the team, plan to consume points, dependencies, and visibility to team and governance forums)
• Actively improve flow of work by identifying, escalating, and helping to remove impediments/ blockers/waste for the team when required
• Work collaboratively with other squads to share people resources, coordinate deployment environments, testing schedules and release management
• Act as scrum master in allocated product delivery teams, providing coaching to team to develop Agile and Lean behaviours, encourage productivity and facilitate an environment that enables effective delivery and enhanced ways of working that embeds Agile practices into delivery of products and services
• Encourage and help the team to transition to and implement newer ideas/ processes such as CI/CD, DevSecOps or others identified via various forums such as ideation sessions, conversations or sprint retrospectives
• Build relationships and collaboration with team members and help foster trust and honesty within the team
• Develop and manage stakeholder relationships through strong and effective communications, managing expectations, mediation, issues management and negotiation to ensure delivery of products and the achievement of outcomes and benefits, engaging with stakeholders at all levels

To be successful in this position you will:

• Have a diploma or a graduate degree in either IT, computer science, information systems, project management, IT business analysis or engineering
• Have 8+ years of experience in IT delivery using agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, TDD etc
• Functional knowledge of SDLC/ ITIL. Any certifications in IT project management/ agile delivery, such as CSM or PSM etc. desirable
• Experience in banking and payment solutions is highly regarded
• Good understanding and experience with release and deployment management
• Experience in Business Analysis or Quality Assurance will be advantageous
• Experience leading/ managing cross functional software teams
• Good communication and leadership skills
• Sound knowledge of common IT PM tools such as Jira, Confluence or similar
• Experience in using Kiro/ Claude is a plus

Closing Date: 28th October 2026, Wednesday at 10am

Company Culture & Benefits

• Flexible office location across NSW
• Hybrid working, compressed hours and generous leave conditions, so you can make timefor what counts
• Accrued Days Off (days in lieu) in addition to Annual Leave
• Ongoing access to industry approved self-learning tools
• Career agility including opportunities to work on different programs
• The opportunity for meaningful work that matters to all of us in NSW
• Corporate wellbeingprograms with access to Fitness passport