Head of Enterprise Platforms

TAL Australia; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

TAL Australia is seeking a Head of Enterprise Applications to lead strategy, delivery and modernisation of TAL’s enterprise application portfolio. You will drive cloud migration, reduce complexity, and align opportunities with TAL’s transformation agenda across Digital Contact Centre, LifeBroker, Finance, Risk, Legal, People & Culture and records management.

You will partner with technology and business leaders to shape roadmaps, prioritise investment and ensure operational readiness, governance

Qualifications

• Senior enterprise applications leadership experience in complex environments.
• Proven track record delivering large-scale technology modernisation.
• Strong cloud modernisation and data centre exit experience.
• Strategic portfolio leadership with roadmaps and investment plans.
• Executive stakeholder management and clear business impact communication.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead enterprise applications strategy and roadmaps.
• Drive simplification and cloud modernisation across platforms.
• Lead delivery across core enterprise platforms with governance.
• Ensure risk, resilience, and regulatory requirements are met.
• Coach high-performing teams and manage strategic vendors.

Skills

Enterprise leadership

Cloud migration

Strategic roadmaps

Stakeholder management

Governance and risk

Vendor management

Education

Tertiary degree in IT/engineering/business

Job description

• Shape the future of insurance with innovative ideas and technologies that improve the lives of millions of Australians
• Work alongside diverse, passionate colleagues and leaders who inspire, support, and value your contributions.
• Our competitive benefits package includes everything from financial literacy to health and wellness initiatives, designed with your well-being in mind

Company Description

• Shape the future of insurance with innovative ideas and technologies that improve the lives of millions of Australians
• Work alongside diverse, passionate colleagues and leaders who inspire, support, and value your contributions.
• Our competitive benefits package includes everything from financial literacy to health and wellness initiatives, designed with your well-being in mind

Welcome to TAL. As a leading life insurer, we’ve been protecting Australians for over 150 years. Backed by Daiichi Life, we're driven by big ambitions and empower to create better products and services.

Together with our Partners, we’re helping millions of Australians live a life filled with choices, options, and freedoms. See the direct impact you make delivering support and financial security with care and expertise. Grow beyond expectations with diverse roles, global connections, and exclusive learning opportunities.

Work with passionate, bright and capable colleagues. Feel inspired by supportive leaders. Collaborate with heart, where flexibility, wellbeing and inclusivity is valued. Together, we're reimagining insurance.

So, bring a curious mind and an ambition to help us become the progressive, digitally enabled leading insurer.

Job Description

The Head of Enterprise Applications will lead the strategy, delivery, modernisation and simplification of TAL’s enterprise application portfolio, with a focus on reducing complexity, strengthening resilience and enabling faster, safer change. Leading across critical platforms including Digital Contact Centre, LifeBroker, Finance, Risk, Legal, People & Culture and records management, this role brings together business and technology leaders, product, engineering, architecture, cyber, risk and strategic partners to shape roadmaps, prioritise investment and deliver against TAL’s transformation agenda. As TAL continues its transition from legacy platforms and data centre dependencies to reusable cloud-native services, the role will drive application simplification, cloud modernisation and effective platform ownership, while ensuring operational readiness, risk and dependencies are carefully managed. Ultimately, this role will help create a simpler, more resilient technology environment with clearer accountability, stronger execution and measurable business value.

In This Role You Will

• Enterprise Applications Strategy: Define and lead the enterprise applications strategy and simplification roadmap, aligning investment and delivery priorities to TAL’s strategic objectives, technology roadmap and transformation agenda.
• Application Simplification & Modernisation: Drive the simplification of TAL’s application landscape by reducing legacy dependencies, duplicated capability, manual effort, technology complexity, cost and operational risk.
• Enterprise Platform Delivery: Lead delivery across critical enterprise platforms, ensuring initiatives achieve agreed business outcomes and are delivered effectively across scope, time, budget, quality and risk.
• Cloud Modernisation & Migration: Lead application readiness for cloud migration and data centre exit, working across Technology, Architecture, Cyber, Risk and delivery partners to manage sequencing, dependencies, resilience and operational readiness.
• Application Ownership & Estate Management: Strengthen application ownership and improve the quality and visibility of application estate data to support informed investment, lifecycle, consolidation, migration and decommissioning decisions.
• Governance, Risk & Delivery Assurance: Establish strong governance and provide executive-level visibility of delivery progress, investment, risks, dependencies and outcomes, ensuring change is aligned to TAL’s risk, cyber, resilience and architecture requirements.
• Stakeholder, Partner & People Leadership: Build strong partnerships across business and technology, lead and coach high-performing teams, and manage strategic vendors and delivery partners to drive accountability, collaboration, commercial discipline and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Relevant tertiary qualification in information technology, computer science, engineering, business or a related discipline.
• Project, program, product, agile, cloud, architecture, technology risk or service management qualifications are desirable.
• Vendor, commercial, change management or transformation delivery certifications are desirable.
• Significant enterprise applications leadership experience, ideally within a complex, regulated environment.
• Proven experience leading large-scale technology modernisation and transformation, across multiple business-critical platforms and programs.
• Strong cloud modernisation experience, including application migration, legacy simplification, data centre exit, dependencies and operational readiness.
• Strategic portfolio leadership, with experience shaping roadmaps, prioritising investment and turning strategy into executable delivery plans.
• Strong executive stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to simplify complex technology issues and clearly communicate business impact, risks and trade-offs.
• Strong commercial, governance and risk management capability, balancing delivery speed, resilience, cost, quality, risk and business value.
• Proven people and partner leadership, building accountability across multidisciplinary teams, senior business stakeholders, vendors and delivery partners.

TAL Is One Of Australia’s Leading Life Insurers, Committed To Inclusion, And Supporting The Career Growth Of Our Diverse Workforce. We’re Proud To Be

• An Inclusive Employer – Recognised as Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency from 2014 to 2025 and 2023 to 2026 Bronze Tier Status within the Australian Workplace Equality Index
• Diversity Champions – Member of Diversity Council Australia, Australian Disability Network, Pride in Diversity and Champions of Change
• Reconciliation Advocates – Read our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan.
• We welcome applications from people with diverse experiences, perspectives and backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, caregivers, individuals with disability/ies, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and the LGBTQ+ community.
• Need adjustments during the recruitment process? Let our team know by getting in touch with us here.—we’re here to support you.

You’realwaysaccountable for your actions. You never give up. You strive to find the best outcomes for customers and partners.Andyou valueworking together to find the best solutions for problems.

As part of the recruitment process, there are several checks which may be conducted to demonstrate your eligibility for a role at TAL including Criminal History, Bankruptcy, Entitlement to Work, Regulatory and Reference Checks.

Everyone at TAL has a responsibility to do the right thing and is accountable for the way they conduct themselves. Our expectations are that you follow the principles set out in our Code of Conduct when you come to work every day. Risk management is everyone’s responsibility.