Head of Technology, TDD Engineering & Capability

Ampol; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 240,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Share Scheme

Hybrid work model

Fuel discount for two cars

Remote/hybrid flexibility

Paid volunteering day

Job summary

Ampol is seeking an influential technology leader to establish and head the newly created TDD & Engineering Capability. You will define the vision, shape the operating model, and build a high-performing engineering organisation that delivers enterprise-wide impact across security, resilience, and scalability.

This role influences senior leadership and drives transformation. With responsibility for multiple engineering disciplines, you will foster a culture of accountability, continuous

Qualifications

• Extensive leadership experience in senior engineering and technology roles.
• Experience delivering enterprise technology and platform strategies.
• Deep expertise across cloud, infrastructure, networking, platform engineering, DevSecOps, CI/CD and automation.
• Strong commercial acumen and stakeholder leadership.
• Passion for developing people and building inclusive cultures.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute Ampol's platform and engineering strategy aligned to business goals.
• Establish and lead a newly formed engineering capability with a high-performance culture.
• Lead Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Networking, Cloud and related capabilities.
• Drive engineering excellence, automation, DevSecOps, and continuous delivery.
• Partner with Architecture, Cyber Security, Digital, Data and business leaders.
• Ensure platforms are highly available, secure, and fit for purpose.

Skills

Leadership

Tech strategy

Cloud & DevOps

Security & Compliance

Automation

People development

Budget management

Stakeholder comms

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Cloud platforms

Automation tools

Job description

Powering better journeys, today and tomorrow.

Our company has always been about more than fuel. Fuel may be the foundation of our business, but our motivation and purpose comes from the people, businesses, industries and communities we engage with. From our origins until today, we’ve always been inspired by the role we can play in people’s lives – to keep them moving, to make journeys happen. Here at Ampol, we are proud of our heritage as Australia’s only owned fuel brand.

For over 100 years we have supported Australians to travel far and wide, and we’ll be here for 100 more powering better journeys for today and tomorrow.

Tech, Digital & Data @ Ampol

As we embark on our digital transformation, we are committed to making Ampol easier to work with and within, enhancing every interaction through innovative solutions.

Our approach is anchored in data-driven decision-making and advanced technology integration, allowing us to create seamless and personalised customer experiences that truly resonate. By prioritizing value-based decisions and outcomes, we ensure that our digital transformation will drive meaningful impact and measurable outcomes.

We are dedicated to empowering our business through technology-enabled differentiation, strengthening our foundations to build sustainable value for the future. Our team thrives on the challenge of innovation—dreaming up big ideas, questioning the norm, and tackling complex problems. Together, we are shaping a future that not only meets the needs of today but anticipates the demands of tomorrow.

Join us as we embrace this journey of transformation, committed to delivering exceptional value and experiences that make a lasting impact on our business, customers and industry.

About the role:

At Ampol, technology is a strategic enabler of our transformation, growth, and customer ambitions. We're looking for an exceptional technology leader to establish and lead our newly created TDD & Engineering Capability function.

This is a rare opportunity to define the vision, shape the operating model, and build a high-performing engineering organisation that delivers enterprise-wide impact. You'll lead multiple engineering disciplines and play a pivotal role in ensuring Ampol's technology platforms are secure, scalable, resilient, and ready to support the future of our business.

You'll influence technology strategy at the highest levels, partner with senior leaders across Technology, Digital & Data and Group Functions, and help drive the engineering excellence, automation, innovation, and operational resilience that will power the next chapter of Ampol's evolution.

This is more than a technology leadership role. It's an opportunity to build capability, shape culture, elevate engineering standards, and create the conditions for teams across Ampol to do their best work.

Key Responsibilities

As Head of Technology, TDD & Engineering Capability, you will:

• Develop and execute Ampol's platform and engineering strategy, ensuring alignment to both business and technology objectives.
• Establish and lead a newly formed engineering capability, creating a high-performance culture built on accountability, innovation, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
• Provide leadership across Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Integration, Networking, Cloud, End User Computing, Quality Engineering & Testing, and Robotic Process Automation capabilities.
• Drive engineering excellence through modern software engineering practices, standards, automation, DevSecOps, platform engineering, and continuous delivery.
• Partner closely with Architecture, Cyber Security, Digital, Data, and business leaders to deliver enterprise technology outcomes.
• Ensure technology platforms are highly available, secure, resilient, and fit for purpose across a complex enterprise environment.
• Build and develop future leaders through coaching, succession planning, capability uplift, and talent development.
• Identify emerging technologies and platform opportunities that create competitive advantage and long-term business value.
• Balance innovation with risk management, ensuring strong governance and technology decision making.
• Lead technology investment decisions, optimise platform costs, and improve service quality and performance.
• Communicate technology strategy, risks, priorities, and outcomes clearly to executive and senior leadership stakeholders.

What you’ll bring:

This is a role for an influential technology leader who thrives on building capability, leading large-scale change, and delivering outcomes through others. You'll bring a track record of creating high-performing engineering functions and the ability to inspire teams around a shared vision. Comfortable operating at both strategic and operational levels, you'll combine deep technical expertise with strong commercial acumen and exceptional stakeholder leadership.

You’ll also bring:

• Extensive leadership experience in senior engineering, infrastructure, platform, or technology leadership roles, including leading leaders and large multidisciplinary teams.
• Proven success developing and executing enterprise technology and platform strategies in complex environments.
• Deep expertise across cloud, infrastructure, networking, platform engineering, DevSecOps, CI/CD, automation, and modern engineering practices.
• Experience building and scaling engineering capabilities that improve reliability, resilience, security, and organisational effectiveness.
• A strong product-minded approach, balancing business priorities with technology outcomes and customer needs.
• Demonstrated success driving transformation, modernisation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Strong commercial capability, including budget ownership, vendor management, and cost optimisation.
• Exceptional communication and influencing skills with the ability to build trust and alignment across executive, technology, and business stakeholders.
• Experience managing enterprise environments spanning cloud, on-premise, and hybrid technology landscapes.
• A passion for developing people, fostering inclusive cultures, and building the next generation of technology leaders.

We’ll take you further by:

• Our total remuneration is competitive. This is across base salary, a performance incentive, employee share offers and a 25% discount on Fuel for two privately used cars!
• We are flexible. Many of our teams have embraced hybrid work, balancing time spent remote working, with time spent at an office to connect and work together where it adds value.
• We value recognition. We have an internal recognition platform amplifying the achievements of those who do great work and demonstrate our capabilities and values.
• Career development and learning opportunities including LinkedIn Learning and other tailored training solutions.
• BabyCare Package - financial and flexible support for parents transitioning back to work.
• Need some wheels? Novated Lease options are available.
• Remote working opportunities
• 3 days well-being leave – 4 weeks’ annual leave and the opportunity to purchase 2 further weeks of leave
• Invest in your future with the Employee Share Scheme
• Access to Ampol's Benefits & Recognition platform providing you access to retail discounts and cashbacks at over 500+ retailers in Australia that assist with everyday living expenses
• Care for your Community. Spend one paid day a year volunteering with one of our Ampol Foundation partners.

Job Description

About Ampol

Powering better journeys, today and tomorrow.

Our company has always been about more than fuel. Fuel may be the foundation of our business, but our motivation and purpose comes from the people, businesses, industries and communities we engage with. From our origins until today, we’ve always been inspired by the role we can play in people’s lives – to keep them moving, to make journeys happen. Here at Ampol, we are proud of our heritage as Australia’s only owned fuel brand.

For over 100 years we have supported Australians to travel far and wide, and we’ll be here for 100 more powering better journeys for today and tomorrow.

Tech, Digital & Data @ Ampol

As we embark on our digital transformation, we are committed to making Ampol easier to work with and within, enhancing every interaction through innovative solutions.

Our approach is anchored in data-driven decision-making and advanced technology integration, allowing us to create seamless and personalised customer experiences that truly resonate. By prioritizing value-based decisions and outcomes, we ensure that our digital transformation will drive meaningful impact and measurable outcomes.

We are dedicated to empowering our business through technology-enabled differentiation, strengthening our foundations to build sustainable value for the future. Our team thrives on the challenge of innovation—dreaming up big ideas, questioning the norm, and tackling complex problems. Together, we are shaping a future that not only meets the needs of today but anticipates the demands of tomorrow.

Join us as we embrace this journey of transformation, committed to delivering exceptional value and experiences that make a lasting impact on our business, customers and industry.

About the role:

At Ampol, technology is a strategic enabler of our transformation, growth, and customer ambitions. We're looking for an exceptional technology leader to establish and lead our newly created TDD & Engineering Capability function.

This is a rare opportunity to define the vision, shape the operating model, and build a high-performing engineering organisation that delivers enterprise-wide impact. You'll lead multiple engineering disciplines and play a pivotal role in ensuring Ampol's technology platforms are secure, scalable, resilient, and ready to support the future of our business.

You'll influence technology strategy at the highest levels, partner with senior leaders across Technology, Digital & Data and Group Functions, and help drive the engineering excellence, automation, innovation, and operational resilience that will power the next chapter of Ampol's evolution.

This is more than a technology leadership role. It's an opportunity to build capability, shape culture, elevate engineering standards, and create the conditions for teams across Ampol to do their best work.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute Ampol's platform and engineering strategy, ensuring alignment to both business and technology objectives.
• Establish and lead a newly formed engineering capability, creating a high-performance culture built on accountability, innovation, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
• Provide leadership across Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Integration, Networking, Cloud, End User Computing, Quality Engineering & Testing, and Robotic Process Automation capabilities.
• Drive engineering excellence through modern software engineering practices, standards, automation, DevSecOps, platform engineering, and continuous delivery.
• Partner closely with Architecture, Cyber Security, Digital, Data, and business leaders to deliver enterprise technology outcomes.
• Ensure technology platforms are highly available, secure, resilient, and fit for purpose across a complex enterprise environment.
• Build and develop future leaders through coaching, succession planning, capability uplift, and talent development.
• Identify emerging technologies and platform opportunities that create competitive advantage and long-term business value.
• Balance innovation with risk management, ensuring strong governance and technology decision making.
• Lead technology investment decisions, optimise platform costs, and improve service quality and performance.
• Communicate technology strategy, risks, priorities, and outcomes clearly to executive and senior leadership stakeholders.

What you’ll bring:

This is a role for an influential technology leader who thrives on building capability, leading large-scale change, and delivering outcomes through others. You'll bring a track record of creating high-performing engineering functions and the ability to inspire teams around a shared vision. Comfortable operating at both strategic and operational levels, you'll combine deep technical expertise with strong commercial acumen and exceptional stakeholder leadership.

You’ll also bring:

• Extensive leadership experience in senior engineering, infrastructure, platform, or technology leadership roles, including leading leaders and large multidisciplinary teams.
• Proven success developing and executing enterprise technology and platform strategies in complex environments.
• Deep expertise across cloud, infrastructure, networking, platform engineering, DevSecOps, CI/CD, automation, and modern engineering practices.
• Experience building and scaling engineering capabilities that improve reliability, resilience, security, and organisational effectiveness.
• A strong product-minded approach, balancing business priorities with technology outcomes and customer needs.
• Demonstrated success driving transformation, modernisation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Strong commercial capability, including budget ownership, vendor management, and cost optimisation.
• Exceptional communication and influencing skills with the ability to build trust and alignment across executive, technology, and business stakeholders.
• Experience managing enterprise environments spanning cloud, on-premise, and hybrid technology landscapes.
• A passion for developing people, fostering inclusive cultures, and building the next generation of technology leaders.

We’ll take you further by:

• Our total remuneration is competitive. This is across base salary, a performance incentive, employee share offers and a 25% discount on Fuel for two privately used cars!
• We are flexible. Many of our teams have embraced hybrid work, balancing time spent remote working, with time spent at an office to connect and work together where it adds value.
• We value recognition. We have an internal recognition platform amplifying the achievements of those who do great work and demonstrate our capabilities and values.
• Career development and learning opportunities including LinkedIn Learning and other tailored training solutions.
• BabyCare Package - financial and flexible support for parents transitioning back to work.
• Need some wheels? Novated Lease options are available.
• Remote working opportunities
• 3 days well-being leave – 4 weeks’ annual leave and the opportunity to purchase 2 further weeks of leave
• Invest in your future with the Employee Share Scheme
• Access to Ampol's Benefits & Recognition platform providing you access to retail discounts and cashbacks at over 500+ retailers in Australia that assist with everyday living expenses
• Care for your Community. Spend one paid day a year volunteering with one of our Ampol Foundation partners.

Additional Information

We’re an equal opportunity workplace. We not only embrace diversity and inclusion; we celebrate what makes you unique. We welcome applications from people of all ages, cultural backgrounds, and diverse sexualities and genders (including if you identify as transgender). We also highly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply for roles with Ampol.