Regional Technology Director - Strategy, Delivery & AI

News Corp; Sydney; On-site; AUD 250,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

News Corp Australia is seeking a Regional Technology Director to lead the Global Technology services within the News Corp Australia Business Unit. The role reports to the SVP, Infrastructure & Enterprise Technology and acts as the primary technology interface between the BU and GT services.

The RTD will align local priorities with global technology strategy, oversee regional infrastructure, and drive governance, security, and innovation initiatives across the region.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related discipline.
• At least 15+ years of IT management and technology leadership experience in global, matrixed organisations.
• Broad exposure to IT service catalogue, infrastructure, cloud, security, service delivery and governance.
• Proven ability to translate business priorities into technology outcomes with senior stakeholders.
• Experience managing technology budgets, vendors and commercial relationships.

Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships with regional and global leaders and manage major incidents and change activities.
• Oversee regional infrastructure across data centres, networks, cloud, compute, storage and telephony.
• Provide strategic, matrix leadership to regional teams and talent development.
• Drive regional execution of global infrastructure strategy and AI workflow integration.
• Own BU–GT alignment forum and communicate priorities, dependencies, and opportunities.
• Drive financial discipline, budgeting, procurement and cost optimisation.
• Adopt and enforce global standards, architecture, governance and security controls.
• Coordinate with GT Services to align priorities and share expertise.
• Strengthen leadership capability and promote knowledge sharing across regions.

Skills

IT leadership

Stakeholder management

Budget management

Technology strategy

Incident & ITIL practices

Technology transformation

Governance, risk & security

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Technology

Job description

News Corp Australia is seeking a Regional Technology Director to lead the Global Technology services within the News Corp Australia Business Unit. The role reports to the SVP, Infrastructure & Enterprise Technology and acts as the primary technology interface between the BU and GT services.

The RTD will align local priorities with global technology strategy, oversee regional infrastructure, and drive governance, security, and innovation initiatives across the region.