Domain Delivery Lead: Strategic Tech Execution

Macquarie University; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible, hybrid work arrangements

17% Superannuation

Subsidised onsite parking options

Extensive training and professional开发

Job summary

Macquarie University is seeking a seasoned Domain Delivery Lead to provide strategic leadership and end‑to‑end delivery accountability across Corporate and Research technology domains. You will translate university priorities into integrated domain roadmaps and executable delivery plans while balancing funding, capacity and risks.

You will lead multidisciplinary teams, oversee governance and reporting, and drive delivery across multiple initiatives, ensuring architecture, privacy and cyber

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading complex technology programs, portfolios, domains or multiple concurrent delivery streams.
• Strong experience in business transformation, enterprise technology and organisational change.
• Demonstrated leadership across corporate platforms, enterprise data, research services, research infrastructure or comparable complex technology environments.
• Proven capability in strategic planning, portfolio and domain governance, financial management, resource and capacity planning, and benefits realisation.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary internal teams and working effectively with vendors, implementation partners and specialist technology functions.
• Strong commercial capability, including procurement, contract management, financial oversight and vendor negotiation.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders, navigate competing priorities and resolve complex cross‑functional delivery issues.
• Experience developing executive reporting, investment proposals, integrated delivery roadmaps and decision papers.
• Demonstrated experience leading delivery across Agile, hybrid and structured delivery environments.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex delivery matters into clear, concise and evidence‑based executive advice.
• Experience within higher education, government or another large and complex service organisation will be highly regarded.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic planning and delivery of technology initiatives across the Corporate and Research domains.
• Develop and maintain integrated domain roadmaps covering strategic priorities, investment, capacity, resources, dependencies, risks and benefits.
• Own domain-level demand, prioritisation and capacity planning, balancing strategic priorities against available funding and delivery capacity.
• Provide delivery oversight across multiple concurrent initiatives, programs and delivery streams.
• Partner with senior business and technology stakeholders to prioritise initiatives, resolve complex delivery issues and support effective investment decisions.
• Provide leadership across multidisciplinary teams comprising delivery managers, business analysts, change practitioners, testing specialists and other delivery resources.
• Lead effective governance, reporting, escalation and decision‑making arrangements, ensuring they remain proportionate to delivery complexity and risk.
• Oversee domain budgets, forecasts, procurement activities, vendors and commercial commitments.
• Ensure architecture, cyber‑security, privacy, data governance and service requirements are appropriately embedded throughout delivery.
• Oversee operational readiness, release governance, service integration and benefits realisation.
• Manage complex cross‑domain dependencies, risks and competing priorities to support coordinated delivery.
• Strengthen domain delivery capability through consistent delivery practices, coaching and continuous improvement.

Skills

Extensive leadership

Delivery program leadership

Enterprise technology

Strategic planning

Portfolio governance

Financial management

Resource planning

Vendor negotiation

Stakeholder influence

Executive reporting

Agile/hybrid delivery

Clear executive advisory

Experience in HE/government

Job description

Macquarie University is seeking a seasoned Domain Delivery Lead to provide strategic leadership and end‑to‑end delivery accountability across Corporate and Research technology domains. You will translate university priorities into integrated domain roadmaps and executable delivery plans while balancing funding, capacity and risks.

You will lead multidisciplinary teams, oversee governance and reporting, and drive delivery across multiple initiatives, ensuring architecture, privacy and cyber