Program Director

Talenza; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Talenza is seeking an experienced Program Director to lead a complex, large-scale enterprise transformation within financial services. This senior leadership role involves end-to-end programme oversight across multiple Release Trains, ensuring alignment and readiness for major release events.

The role requires governance, executive reporting, and strategic delivery with strong stakeholder management in banking technology transformations. Sydney-based, hybrid work arrangement, permanent.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading large-scale technology transformation programmes in banking.
• Proven ability to coordinate multiple Release Trains (RTEs) across complex ecosystems.
• Strong governance, reporting and readiness practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall programme leadership across multiple Release Trains, ensuring integrated planning, delivery alignment and dependency management.
• Lead and coordinate RTEs across complex, interdependent technology and business workstreams.
• Establish strong programme governance, reporting and readiness practices.
• Oversee major release and migration events, including planning, readiness assessments, implementation, hypercare and lessons learned.
• Provide executive-level insights, reporting and recommendations to support key programme decisions.
• Drive alignment across Business, Technology and Transformation teams and manage complex cross-functional dependencies.
• Build strong relationships with senior executives and stakeholders across a highly complex delivery environment.

Skills

Program leadership

Release train coordination

Stakeholder management

Executive presence

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Program Director to lead a complex, large-scale enterprise transformation programme within financial services.

Sydney location - 4/5 days office per week - permanent opportunity

This is a highly visible leadership role, responsible for providing end-to-end programme oversight while bringing together multiple Release Trains (RTEs), workstreams and senior stakeholders to ensure delivery remains aligned, integrated and ready for major release and migration events.

The Role

• Provide overall programme leadership across multiple Release Trains, ensuring integrated planning, delivery alignment and dependency management.
• Lead and coordinate RTEs across complex, interdependent technology and business workstreams.
• Establish strong programme governance, reporting and readiness practices.
• Oversee major release and migration events, including planning, readiness assessments, implementation, hypercare and lessons learned.
• Provide executive-level insights, reporting and recommendations to support key programme decisions.
• Drive alignment across Business, Technology and Transformation teams and manage complex cross-functional dependencies.
• Build strong relationships with senior executives and stakeholders across a highly complex delivery environment.

About You

• Proven experience as a Program Director leading large-scale technology transformation, migration, simplification or divestment programmes within banking
• Strong experience working across multiple Release Trains / RTEs within complex enterprise environments.
• Excellent programme integration, release management and enterprise planning capability.
• Demonstrated ability to manage significant dependencies across multiple workstreams and delivery teams.
• Comfortable operating strategically while remaining closely connected to execution and delivery.
• Strong executive presence with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive decisions.
• Resilient, pragmatic and confident navigating ambiguity, competing priorities and significant organisational change.

This is an opportunity to take a senior leadership position at the centre of a major transformation programme, with significant exposure to executive governance and enterprise-wide outcomes.